A 34-year-old man was arrested on Saturday morning, November 19, by the BAC in Toulouse. He is suspected of assaulting a 96-year-old woman in his home near the station.
“I heard small noises, like birds. They were strange noises. Then there was a commotion and I heard the grandmother say ‘Help’. I left the house.” Rémi is the neighbor of a 96-year-old woman into whom a criminal investigation has been opened. She says she was raped by an intruder around 7 this Saturday morning in the Matabiau station area.
“He rang at my house around 7 in the morning, says the witness. As I always do, I opened the window to see who it was. It was a man. When he saw me, he said in a hushed voice that he was sorry, that he had made a mistake.”
This early Saturday morning it was still dark in the rue des Jumeaux, behind the boulevards. “I only remember the look of him.” After ringing the bell of this first apartment, the man rings the ninety-year-old who is waiting for her nurse. She opens it for him. What happened next ? About twenty minutes later, the nurse announces herself and is opened. The man goes out to hide on the stairs of the building. That’s when the grandmother calls “for help.” “She looked traumatized and she wasn’t sure what was going on.”
Taken to hospital for tests
The suspect fled, pushing the nurse. The victim says she was attacked by this man who allegedly raped her. The police are immediately notified.
A report of the suspect is launched over the airwaves to find him as quickly as possible. A manhunt is launched. And a Crime Squad crew quickly gets their hands on a suspect fitting the description.
The 34-year-old man is taken to the central police station to be heard there as part of the police custody and to give his version of what happened behind closed doors in the apartment of this 96-year-old woman.
The grandmother, for her part, is taken to the Rangueil hospital to undergo tests. Her days are not in danger. Small and very thin, this woman struggles to walk and uses a crutch. She never leaves the house. “Sometimes she goes out into the courtyard.”
Her daughter, who lives in Toulouse, takes care of her. She regrets her mother’s frailty. “It opens too easily. Two weeks ago we found someone having breakfast at her house,” she complains. The carabinieri on duty continue the investigation into aggravated rape.
