Patrick Trémeau, a recidivist rapist released last month from prison, was hospitalized after being violently assaulted in the home where he is staying in Saint-Denis, on the night from Friday to Saturday, said the Bobigny prosecutor's office.
At the end of the execution of his sentence of 20 years of criminal imprisonment, Patrick Trémeau had been under house arrest in a home since July 15.
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He is subject to several obligations and prohibitions and is placed under mobile electronic surveillance as part of his socio-judicial monitoring, specifies the prosecution. Around 1:15 am, "
he was violently assaulted,
" said the Bobigny prosecutor's office in a press release. According to the first elements of the investigation, he "
would have been attacked by three individuals pretending to be police officers, who would have entered his room after having broken the door
".
The latter "
would have jumped out of the window to escape his attackers and then would have been joined on the public highway by them, who would have violently hit him
", the statement continued.
Patrick Trémeau is "
currently hospitalized without his life appearing in danger
".
The investigation was entrusted to the judicial police of the department.
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Nicknamed "
the rapist of the parking lots
", Patrick Trémeau had already been sentenced to seven years in prison in 1987 in Val-de-Marne for a rape and to 16 years of imprisonment in 1998 in Paris for 11 rapes and two attempts, committed between 1993 and 1995.
Taking into account the reductions in sentence and collective pardon decrees, he was released from prison in May 2005 after ten years of imprisonment. As soon as he left prison, he raped three young women, two in parking lots and the third in a garbage room. Rapes that he all recognized.
The mayor of Saint-Denis Mathieu Hanotin was opposed this week to his installation in the city and had sent a letter to the Minister of Justice. After the assault on Mr. Trémeau, Mr. Hanotin denounced “
scandalous manhunt methods
” considering that “
this man had every right to be reintegrated into society
”, while repeating that the city of Saint-Denis "
was not the city best suited (...) with regard to its dense urban environment
".