On Sunday, around noon, a crowd formed on the Allées Jules-Guesde market in Toulouse.
Present, municipal police officers went to see what was going on when they saw a woman and a man who had come to blows.
After separating them, the police heard the protagonists.
The 45-year-old woman then explained to them that she was near the stalls when she felt wandering hands, before seeing the 78-year-old man rubbing against her.
She decided not to let it pass.
The septuagenarian was arrested, taken to the police station and taken into custody.
Released, he is summoned to court to be tried soon.
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