“Very shocked, the little girl was nevertheless able to give a precise description of the vehicle and the individual.
It is thanks to this information that the investigation was able to prosper ”, detailed this Tuesday Michel Garrandaux, the public prosecutor of Poitiers, in Vienne.
The individual wanted since Sunday for the kidnapping and rape of a 9-year-old girl in Villiers, north-west of Poitiers, was finally arrested late Monday afternoon in Saumur, Maine-et -Loire.
Coming from the Travelers' community, this man is 31 years old.
The police, who were looking for a stolen C3 like all the police forces of the surrounding departments, were able to intercept it after a chase.
The 27-year-old passenger who was accompanying him fled.
Apprehended in the wake, he has since been exonerated.
The thirty-something suspected of the rape of the girl in Villiers, he was taken into police custody on Tuesday, in Angers.
"He seized her violently, she struggled"
This is because his criminal course really began last Friday with the rape of a 74-year-old woman living in Varennes-sur-Loire, near Saumur.
"The description of the young girl and that of this woman corresponded in every way," said the prosecutor's office in Poitiers.
They made it possible to make a connection.
The rape of this septuagenarian was followed by the theft of her vehicle, a gray Citroën C3 with which the traveler traveled the region.
No element yet allows us to understand how this individual ended up Sunday noon in Villiers, a village of 900 inhabitants isolated between corn fields and a few wind turbines.
There, he met the little girl who was attending CM1 at the municipal school.
“She had gone to buy bread and was on her way home when the individual got out of his vehicle.
He seized her violently, she struggled, explained prosecutor Michel Garrandaux.
He put her in the trunk and took her a mile away, to a secluded place, to rape her.
The child tried to stop her and was abused in return.
The thirty-something ended up releasing her less than an hour later.
"He abandoned her on the spot, the girl returned home alone," said the Poitiers prosecutor's office before revealing new elements of the investigation.
Already sentenced 18 times
This Sunday, at 11 am, the suspect would have first tried to attack a jogger in Noiron, a village located 10 minutes from Villiers.
"She did not let it go, the man failed and fled," commented Michel Garrandaux before detailing his criminal record.
Eighteen convictions are already there: for manslaughter, theft, domestic violence and a whole "diversified delinquency", in the words of the prosecutor of the Republic of Poitiers.
Currently, the thirty-something living in Maine-et-Loire is also the subject of two investigations for alleged sexual assault.
In Villiers, fear has given way to anger and consternation.
“You have to be sick, blows a thirty-something and the girl's neighbor.
On Sunday my daughter was playing outside in the garden.
She is the same age as her… The village is very calm, there are never any fuss here.
According to the Poitiers prosecutor's office, the investigations are continuing.
The investigators are awaiting the results of the various analyzes carried out in the context of these two rape cases.
Because of their connection, they will be grouped together in Angers where the criminal department of the prosecution should quickly seize an examining magistrate.
