Monday October 3, 2022, a 30-year-old man broke into an apartment to sexually assault its occupant. Thanks to the cold blood of the latter, he was able to be arrested as reported by Le Point.
It is a news item that could have turned into a tragedy. It was around 1 a.m. on the night of Sunday October 2 to Monday October 3 when a 26-year-old woman was close to death. The latter, who lived on the ground floor of a small building in a residential area of Angers, woke up with a man in his thirties, sitting astride her. According to the information revealed by Le Point, the individual had a knife in the hand to threaten his victim.
Quickly, the young woman showed a exceptional composure to get out of this situation. After violently struggling, she tried to Gain someone’s trust of his attacker by offering him a cigarette. After having succeeded in making him lower his guard, the resident managed to bite him hard until he bleeds and scares him away. Informed after the attack, the police immediately intervened on the scene and arrested the man thanks to the physical description given by the victim and the bite present on his hand.
The suspect had just served a prison sentence for rape and sexual assault
After his arrest, the suspect was taken into custody and investigators discovered that he was not not unknown to the police. Indeed, the man named Florian G. had just been released from prison in July after having served seven of the ten years of his sentence pronounced in 2017 for “two rapes and a sexual assault committed between August 2014 and March 2015“. According to one of his lawyers, the suspect had a “predatory behavior“and was the subject of a socio-judicial follow-up since his release. A measure that will not ultimately have prevented him from reoffending.
After the aggression of the young woman in Angers, Florian G. was remanded in custody for “home invasion, attempted extortion with a weapon and sexual assault“. He currently faces life imprisonment.