A 21-year-old man was indicted on Tuesday February 8 for five rapes and imprisoned, AFP learned on Wednesday February 8 from the Saint-Etienne prosecutor's office, suspected of having forced young women into sexual relations by threatening to disclose compromising photos.
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Other cases should soon be attributed
to him " as part of the ongoing judicial investigation, added to AFP the deputy prosecutor of Saint-Etienne André Merle, who confirmed information from RMC.
The facts took place over a period of approximately 18 months.
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According to police sources, a dozen cases could already be attributed to him and investigations are continuing.
Some of the victims identified during the investigation did not want to file a complaint at this stage.
The respondent denies the rapes and evokes consensual sex, the same source said.
The investigation began at the end of 2021 following a complaint from a 15-year-old girl who explained that she had been forced to go on a date to a hotel in Lyon and to have sex with a man she met. on the internet which threatened to broadcast on social networks the naked photos of her that she had sent to him, further specified this source.
