Illustration of a gendarmerie check carried out here between Nantes and Rennes.
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C. Allain / APEI / 20 Minutes
His presence could not have been the result of chance.
Since the separation of a couple in mid-November, a woman had noted 17 times the presence of her ex in the same places as her.
Too recurrent to be accidental.
His complaint led to the opening of an investigation by the gendarmerie of Mordelles, near Rennes (Ille-et-Vilaine).
The investigations made it possible to identify the reason for this increased presence.
The 44-year-old had actually installed two GPS trackers on his ex's car, which allowed him to track her through his phone.
Placed in police custody last week, the man admitted the facts and explained that he had installed the beacons in September "very quickly after their meeting in August", according to the Rennes prosecutor's office.
The defendant had already convicted for acts of harassment by spouse and violence by spouse on other victims and also being the subject of a probationary suspension measure.
Placed in pre-trial detention pending trial, the suspect should be tried on December 30 for harassment by a spouse, misappropriation of a security device or process or of marking a vehicle to remotely locate an unreported stolen vehicle. and endangering the life of others, "one of the beacons being placed in such a way that it interfered with the proper functioning of the vehicle", explains the prosecution.
Investigators are increasingly attentive to these tracking devices in cases of domestic violence.
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