A 36-year-old man was sentenced on Tuesday May 24 to 15 months in prison by the Châteauroux criminal court after sexually assaulting a passenger on a train,
Le Figaro
learned from the Châteauroux public prosecutor, Agnès Auboin, confirming information from
France Bleu
.
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The facts took place on Saturday May 21 in a Paris-Toulouse train.
A young woman in her twenties is quietly installed in a wagon when she is approached by a 36-year-old man.
The latter imposes touching on her and tries to kiss her several times.
Very shocked, the victim manages to report the facts to an SNCF controller, who calls on the police immediately.
The suspect was finally arrested by the police on the platform of Châteauroux station on Saturday afternoon.
Detained in a Toulouse prison, this man was serving a sentence for rape.
Incarcerated since 2015, he was sentenced in 2018 to 12 years in prison by the Assize Court of Hérault, specifies the prosecutor of the Republic of Châteauroux, Agnès Auboin.
He had special permission to attend his father's funeral and was on his way home at the time of the attack.
The man was undergoing treatment in detention and this was his seventh leave.
The 15 months in prison pronounced come on top of the rest of the sentence he was serving for rape.
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