A man was placed in pre-trial detention after the rape of an octogenarian at his home in Olivet (Loiret) on Tuesday, announced Thursday the prosecutor of the Republic of Orleans Emmanuelle Bochenek-Puren.

The suspect, already convicted of rape in 2006, was indicted in particular for “extortion committed with a repeat weapon, rape with several aggravating circumstances in legal recidivism (…), threat of crime against persons (…) and arrest, kidnapping, sequestration or arbitrary detention followed by a release before the seventh day in recidivism”, indicates AFP.

Sentenced in 2006 to 17 years in prison

“Shortly before 1 a.m., an 85-year-old woman dialed 17 to report that an individual had entered her home in Olivet, threatened her with a weapon – in this case a knife. kitchen found at the scene – and sexually assaulted before extorting personal effects from him, ”explained the magistrate in a press release.

The 43-year-old man was then arrested by the police "a few hundred meters from the victim's house".

The suspect had already been sentenced by the Loiret Assize Court in 2006 to 17 years' imprisonment for acts of rape committed under the threat of a weapon and extortion under the threat of a weapon, specified the wooden floor.

Since his release in May 2020, the forties had been followed by a sentence enforcement judge and "registered in the judicial file of perpetrators of sexual offenses".

"He was to appear in January 2023 before the Orleans Criminal Court after the commission of a burglary committed in August 2022", detailed the prosecutor.

The victim was taken care of the day after the events in the Violence Against Women unit of the Orleans regional hospital.

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