An octogenarian raped, assaulted and humiliated for having refused a marriage proposal: the 38-year-old suspect indicted

Le commissariat de police de Lille dans le Nord. (illustration) MAXPPP – Sebastien JARRY

This Monday, February 5, 2024, an octogenarian filed a complaint for rape, violence and humiliation by a man who had settled in at La Madeleine in the North.

It had been several months since the victim, 85 years old, had been subjected to rape, violence and humiliation by a man living in her home in La Madeleine in the North. The octogenarian filed a complaint this Monday against the individual, reports BFM Lille, who has since been indicted and placed in pre-trial detention.

A marriage proposal

The suspect would be a 38-year-old man born in Algeria and who would be subject to an Obligation to Leave French Territory (OQTF), reveals the news channel. According to the victim, who is placed under guardianship, the facts she denounces were allegedly committed over several months by this man who had moved in with her.

The meeting between the two took place last September at a neighbor's house, while the thirty-year-old was carrying out work. He then offered to work for her, to which she responded favorably.

Once installed at the victim's house, the man allegedly asked her to marry him, but the 85-year-old lady refused, which was not the case. to the suspect's liking. This was followed by violence and a rape at the latter's home, in La Madeleine, on the outskirts of Lille in the North.

The individual was arrested and then placed in police custody, the same day the complaint was filed, details BFMTV . The Lille public prosecutor's office has opened a judicial investigation into charges of aggravated rape, violence against a vulnerable person and abuse of weakness. The accused was indicted and placed in pre-trial detention.