It is 3:50 a.m. when the police are called to help a young woman who has just been attacked on avenue Pierre-Mendès-France in the 13th arrondissement of Paris.
Officials find the crying victim who has taken refuge in a nearby bar.
She explains that she had just settled into her Peugeot 206 when a stranger dressed in blue jeans and a military jacket forced his way into the cabin.
Without giving him time to react, the man strangled him and punched him several times.
He managed to digitally rape her before demanding her car keys and phone code.
The victim took advantage of a brief respite to get out.
She took a few steps on the central reservation before being caught by her attacker who pushed her back against the bonnet, hitting her again.
The attacker arrested 30 minutes later on the Quai d'Austerlitz
It was at this moment that four passers-by surprised the scene and intervened, scaring the aggressor away.
Supported by officials, the young victim was taken to the hospital to assess his bodily injury.
She was to be heard in the process by the investigators of the police station.
Warned by radio, another police patrol circulating in the area sees less than half an hour later a man corresponding to the description of the rapist given by the victim.
The latter walks at the corner of rue Fulton and quai d'Austerlitz.
"He was wearing blue jeans and a T-shirt and was carrying a plastic bag," said a source close to the case.
Looking inside, the police discovered the same military jacket that was on the shoulders of the rapist”.
The man, of Chadian nationality, aged 27, without papers or address, was taken into custody at the 13th arrondissement police station after being locked in a drunk tank because he was under the influence of alcohol. .
He had to be heard and in the next forty-eight hours, the Paris prosecutor's office will decide what to do with this procedure.
Thursday evening already another young woman, a Filipino tourist, was the victim of a rape.
The alleged attacker, a 19-year-old who approached him near the Champ-de-Mars, was arrested overnight from Friday to Saturday.
