Woman sexually assaulted in her home by carpet merchant

A national police car (illustration).

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The facts would have occurred in August in Strasbourg.

A man, a traveling salesman who offered rugs, managed to break into the home of a Strasbourg woman without her consent, reports the

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He would then have touched the young woman, aged about thirty.

The victim had managed to defend himself and put his attacker to flight, specify our colleagues.

Call for victims: investigators are looking for victims of sexual assault committed by an individual posing as a carpet seller (door-to-door)

Corpulent individual, of North African type

around 60-70 years old

Facts committed in 2020 on @Strasbourg

Phone: 03.90.23.17.17 pic.twitter.com/23r7Qbcyuf

- Police Nationale 67 (@ PoliceNat67) September 6, 2020

A preliminary investigation for sexual assault had been opened.

Investigation which led to the arrest on Saturday of a man, aged 69.

In police custody, the individual disputed the facts.

He was referred.

The police are launching a call (03 90 23 17 17) to identify possible other victims this year in Strasbourg.

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