This broad-shouldered, bearded guy was indicted at the beginning of February for “rape, theft and fraud” before the Paris criminal court.
This fake taxi, aged 35, is suspected of having, on August 14, 2022 in the capital, raped an intoxicated young man who had gotten into his car with complete confidence.
It was 5:20 a.m. on rue Simon Le Franc (IVe) when the victim called the police explaining that she had been attacked by a taxi driver.
A police car comes to his aid and the young man recounts his sordid misadventure.
It is around 5 a.m. when he leaves a Parisian nightclub, accompanied by a friend.
They are both quite drunk and looking for a driver to take them home.
The duo gets into a marauding taxi.
She gets in the back and he sits in the passenger seat.
The driver takes advantage of his passenger's weakness
According to the victim's statements, during the race, the driver stopped the car and took advantage of his passenger's weakness to force him to perform oral sex on him.
“He would also have imposed sexual touching on her,” adds a source close to the case.
After many minutes, the passengers left the vehicle and the attacker fled with the woman's papers and bank card.
The police broadcast a description of the vehicle and twenty minutes later, the police arrested Jean-Laurent in his car with a new client.
The thirty-year-old is placed in police custody in the premises of the first judicial police district.
The testimony of the second passenger confirms that of the boy.
Investigations show that the suspect does not hold a taxi license.
He borrowed the car from one of his friends who allowed him to use it for shopping.
He had time to use the victim's bank card to make some expenses.
A man with perverse impulses
During the hearings, he admitted theft and fraud.
But he denies the facts of a sexual nature.
The alleged rapist is indicted before being imprisoned.
This shopping deliveryman and versatile agent in a supermarket has already had dealings with the law twelve times.
He was notably convicted of “refusing to comply” and “violent theft” but never for morals matters.
The psychiatric expertise concludes that the accused does not suffer from any mental illness but the doctor notes that the subject cannot find his place in sexual matters.
“The expertise is unfavorable and describes a man with perverse impulses who is incapable of questioning himself,” specifies a source close to the prosecution.
His lawyer recalls that his client “has already spent a year and a half in prison for a rape which he disputes.
Initially, the prosecution had requested a judicial review.”
The accused's counsel requested his release on Tuesday before the Paris investigating chamber, which ordered the man to be kept behind bars pending his trial which is to be held within the next six months.