A 35-year-old Pakistani man, illegally present in the territory, was arrested by the police, accused of having raped prostitutes in the Bois de Boulogne, the Paris prosecutor's office told Le
Figaro
, confirming information from Franceinfo. The exact number of complainants is currently unknown.
The suspect, nicknamed
“El Indiano”
is suspected of having trapped prostitutes after dark. He always acted with the same modus operandi: he dragged them into the undergrowth after giving them a chokehold at the end of a session with a client. Some said they had been threatened with a knife, a nunchaku - a combat weapon used in Asian martial arts -, brass knuckles, a baseball bat and a gun.
Incarcerated in Fleury-Mérogis
In March, a transsexual prostitute filed a complaint against him, based on photos she and her colleagues took of him, but also by showing the clothing she was wearing when she was raped, in hoping to collect DNA. The suspect was arrested at his home ten days later. In police custody, he disputed the accusations, explaining that he went to the Bois de Boulogne to have paid sex. According to our information, he had already been arrested in February for the offense of carrying a category D weapon and forced to pay a fine of €700, while being prohibited from possessing a weapon for three years.
At the end of his police custody, he was indicted for
“rape and attempted rape against people engaged in prostitution, which is an aggravating circumstance”
and then placed in pre-trial detention in Fleury-Mérogis. At least three transsexual prostitutes described a man matching the description of the suspect after being sexually assaulted as early as 2022. The investigation was entrusted to the 1st district of the Paris judicial police.