The driver, suspected of raping a client in Paris, was arrested while trying to reach Spain.

The delivery of the company Uber Eats, the meal delivery service of the American giant Uber, suspected of rape in Paris in early August, was arrested Monday in Bordeaux, AFP learned Tuesday from police sources. The 26-year-old Bangladeshi man in an irregular situation was arrested while taking a bus to Bordeaux in the direction of Spain, according to a police source, confirming information from the Parisian .

He is suspected of having raped in the night of August 5 to 6 a young student to whom he came to deliver a meal. The woman said that the suspect had entered her home when the order was delivered and raped her while she was taking sleeping pills, according to a source familiar with the case.

An investigation for open rape

The prosecutor's office in Paris has opened an investigation of the rape leader, entrusted to the second district of the Paris judicial police, according to a police source.

"The reported facts are horrendous and we take them all the more serious and serious as we are committed to the cause of sexual and gender-based violence and take action to fight against this scourge", had reacted with AFP a spokesman for Uber. "We are working with law enforcement and providing them with all the information we have to advance their investigation," he added.