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Toulouse: a police officer accused of having raped several women within his police station

2023-03-14T20:12:26.186Z


The Toulouse policeman, targeted by six complaints, was placed under judicial supervision pending his trial for "rape and sexual assault".


A disturbing affair.

A policeman, now 52, ​​was indicted in Toulouse for the rape and sexual assault of six women between 2017 and 2018, Le Figaro learned, confirming information

from

the

Dépêche du Midi

.

The brigadier-chief allegedly committed these acts within the confines of the Toulouse police station where he worked.

In 2018, a woman heard in another case claims to have been raped by a Toulouse policeman, in 2017, when she came to the police station to complain about her violent companion.

Six complainants

The IGPN (General Inspectorate of the National Police) is taking up the case and will summon the judicial police officer after this first report.

The respondent then gives the name of two other women with whom he would have had sexual relations within the police station, but

"consented"

according to him.

“The IGPN carried out a very thorough investigation

, greets Me Emmanuelle Franck who represents one of the victims with Me Alexandre Martin.

They said to themselves that with this modus operandi, there must surely be other victims.

So they searched and ended up finding three other women.”

Each time, it's the same procedure:

“These are women who are in a fragile situation, who come to file complaints for complicated situations, which often involve childcare.

Our client was flabbergasted at the time of the events, which took place at the end of the hearing, when she was in tears after having entrusted her with compromising information”.

A total of six women filed a complaint.

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The brigadier-chief was indicted for “rape and sexual assault” in 2019 and suspended from his duties.

At the time, he was placed in pre-trial detention for three weeks before being released by the investigating chamber.

He is now under judicial supervision pending trial.

“He defends himself by saying that it is a conspiracy and that these women have joined together to harm him but they absolutely do not know each other, they have never come into contact, insists Me

Fanck.

These are victims that had to be sought, the IGPN had to convince them to file a complaint.

My client ended up doing it in 2020.”

The client of Me Franck and Martin was also heard at the end of 2022 by the judge of

“Aggravating circumstance”

“We must still remember that this individual cries out his innocence,

argues Me Martin Vatinel, who represents the police officer implicated with Me Laurent Boguet.

He repeated that he had committed a disciplinary, moral but not criminal fault.

He claims not to have perceived the lack of consent.

This is something that will be debated on the day of the trial.

Counsel assures us that this is a

"complicated"

file and that the

"suffering of the civil parties"

should not

"exclude"

that of the accused:

"When we inspect the life of this police officer, we realizes that he was in a couple where it was more than just wing, that he was in a form of psychological slump.

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The date of his trial has not yet been set.

He faces 15 years in prison if convicted of rape.

“It is an aggravating circumstance legally and morally that he is a police officer and, in addition, he committed these crimes within a police station

, advance Me Franck.

Just by this posture, he silences the victims since at no time did they think they could push the doors of a police station again to file a complaint against a police officer for rape.

They felt it was a waste of time.”

Source: lefigaro

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