The facts happened on November 16, in Compiègne.
In a multi-story residence, a woman was sexually assaulted by her neighbor across the street, Samba.
It was 1:30 p.m., the young woman was taking a shower before going to work.
She has a habit of never locking her door, because the building is rather quiet.
Everyone knows each other, even if, in the previous days, she may have noticed a change in the behavior of her neighbor on the next floor, whose insistent gaze makes her uncomfortable.
As she washes, the door to her bathroom opens a crack.
Samba looks at her, without her seeing him.
Then the man enters and arrives at his height and makes the first touches.
She screams, manages to grab her towel, tries to struggle, but he continues.
Panicked, she screams even more, finally managing to put him to flight.
Her partner is not at home and she has to go to work.
At the end of the day, she finds this same neighbor in front of her door.
He stares at her.
That's where she'll call the police.
She is now traumatized.
"He touched the thigh of the technician who was taking his prints"
Arrested in the wake, Samba, 35, was taken into police custody. But again, his behavior deviates from the fairer sex of the police station. He has "exhaustive remarks" as soon as he crosses paths with a policewoman and gives them inappropriate looks. In total, he will caress the thigh of three officials ... "He was brought to the signaling room and touched the thigh of the technician who took his prints", relates Xavier Lacasa, who presides over the hearing, this Monday, in court of Compiègne.
Placed in pre-trial detention pending trial, Samba will not be tried until December 20, the judge wishing to obtain further information.
Indeed, the file as such lacks the testimonies of policewomen, but also those of the neighborhood and the spouse of the assaulted woman.
It is therefore word against word.
“As it stands, I ask for the release.
I did his deferral and he did not touch my thigh, nor that of the prosecutor, says his lawyer, Me Bénédicte Meunier.
We're not going to condemn him because he has a weird, empty, hollow eye.
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