The suspect is a nursing assistant in an Ehpad for the Korian group (illustration) - SEBASTIEN BOZON / AFP

  • A caregiver working in a nursing home in the 12th arrondissement of Paris was arrested on Sunday by the Bac police.
  • The 62-year-old man is suspected of having sexually assaulted a 92-year-old resident.
  • After his police custody, he was indicted for attempted rape of a vulnerable person.

A 62-year-old medical aide was charged and placed in pre-trial detention on Tuesday for attempted rape of a vulnerable person, 20 minutes from a judicial source learned . Working in an Ehpad in the 12th arrondissement of Paris, this man is suspected of having sexually assaulted a 92-year-old resident on Sunday afternoon. Arrested by the police from the anti-crime brigade, he was taken into police custody by investigators from the 2nd criminal investigation district, who are trying to understand what happened in a room on the third floor of the establishment.

The alert had been given at around 6 p.m. by a nurse who, on a tour, had surprised her colleague, the sex out of his pants, facing the bed of the victim who had bare buttocks. Shocked, the witness had had time to take a photo of the suspect before rushing out of the room, screaming to call for help. Another nurse, to whom she told what she had just seen, then went to ask the suspect for an explanation and recorded him discreetly on his phone.

Psychological support unit

The suspect then disrupted company personnel. Bac police finally found him, seated in a chair in the garden of this Ehpad of the Korian group, located on boulevard Daumesnil. According to them, he was nervous and seemed to want to escape them. The man, who told them that he was born in July 1957, was handcuffed and then taken to the 12th arrondissement police station. Placed in police custody, he was questioned 48 hours by the investigators of the Paris judicial police, charged by the parquet floor of the investigations.

Requested Monday by 20 Minutes Monday, a spokesperson for the establishment told us that the suspect "was immediately dismissed on a protective basis", and that a psychological support cell was set up within this Ehpad . He added that Korian became a civil party in the proceedings.

The victim, who has a very significant loss of autonomy, was examined by the fire brigade and hospitalized in shock. The management of the establishment warned his daughter, living in Isère, from Sunday evening.

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