News in the scooter rapist case. As a reminder, this man is suspected of having committed several rapes and sexual assaults in the streets of Grenoble and its surroundings, between February 8 and Saturday March 16, 2024. Friday March 29, 2024, a judicial investigation was opened by the Grenoble public prosecutor’s office in an attempt to find him. It would be done. According to our colleagues from the newspaper Le Figarowho cite a source close to the investigation in an article published on Saturday April 6, 2024, a suspect has since been arrested. Information which should be confirmed during the day by the Grenoble public prosecutor’s office. The man, whose portrait was described in a press release published Tuesday March 26, 2024, would be aged “20 years old, European type, without accent, around 1.70 m tall and of normal or even slightly full build, brown eyes, pale complexion and rather red hair..
Rape, attempted rape, sexual assault… The accusations are serious
According to Éric Vaillant, public prosecutor, the victims are all women, aged 20 to 27, and were allegedly attacked in the city center of Grenoble or on its outskirts, in nearby towns, as they were returning to their homes. The attacker is in fact accused of several acts including two rapes, one committed in Grenoble on Monday March 11, 2024, the second committed on Saturday March 16, 2024 in the town of Saint-Martin-d’Hères and an attempted of rape the same day. He is also being prosecuted for a sexual assault with a weapon, probably a knife, committed in Grenoble, on Saturday February 17, 2024 and for acts of violence and attempted extortion in Saint-Martin-le-Vinoux, committed on Thursday February 8 2024. According to investigators from the local judicial police service, the operating mode is always the same. Dressed in black, he would have followed the victims from his scooter, also black, at nightfall before attacking them. Significant resources were mobilized by investigators to try to find him. The dissemination of his report would have made it possible to collect several dozen testimonies. A sad affair which is reminiscent of the fact that women do not feel safe in the streets, and are sometimes the object of sexist or sexual attacks even today.