• A 24-year-old man has been on trial since Monday before the Assize Court of Ille-et-Vilaine for a series of rapes, committed in 2019, in downtown Rennes.

  • Four women had filed a complaint between August and November 2019, almost each time describing the same scene.

  • The accused faces the maximum penalty of twenty years in prison.

He had created a beginning of psychosis during 2019 in Rennes.

A 24-year-old young man has been on trial since Monday before the Assize Court of Ille-et-Vilaine for a series of rapes and a sexual assault committed in the city center.

Four victims had filed a complaint between August and November 2019, almost each time describing the same horror scene.

As they were returning home alone at night, the young women were approached by a stranger "of African type, short hair and about 1.70 meters tall", according to their statements.

The first fact dates back to August 4.

That day, a woman had come to the police station to denounce a rape of which she had been the victim during the night.

As she was walking rue du Général Maurice-Guillaudot, not far from Parc du Thabor, a stranger had grabbed her from behind before pressing her against a wall and lifting her skirt to penetrate her digitally.

Two complaints filed on the same day

Three weeks later, on August 24, two other young women, who had attended the same evening but returned separately, had also filed a complaint.

The first had told investigators that a stranger had put a hand on her buttocks as she walked at rue Pierre-Gourdel, around 3 a.m.

An hour later, the second young woman had been approached by a hooded man, place Sainte-Anne.

The latter returned to the charge a few moments later, Place Hoche, pinning the victim against a car before lifting her dress and inserting a finger into her vagina.

DNA traces were then found on the victim's panties and body.

The black series continued on November 20 with the filing of a new complaint for rape.

A young woman then said that she felt a presence behind her before an individual grabbed her from behind and ordered her: "I have a gun, don't run away or I'll kill you!"

".

After lowering his victim's pants, the attacker touched and licked his private parts.

Trying to struggle, the young woman had managed to challenge a cyclist who had put the individual to flight.

Three victims on the civil party bench

It was this last case that allowed investigators to make the link between all these attacks and to identify the attacker, whose DNA was registered in the national automated DNA file after a first conviction the same year for sexual exhibition. .

Located with his uncle in the outskirts of Rennes, the individual was arrested on November 28.

On the first day of his trial, the young man, a native of La Trinité in Martinique, did not change his version from his last statements, acknowledging two rapes, but refuting the third as well as the sexual assault.

Of the four victims, three are civil parties for the trial which is held until Thursday evening.

The accused faces the maximum penalty of twenty years in prison.

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