The Grenoble public prosecutor will reveal more on Monday morning, but everything suggests that the 22-year-old young man arrested on Friday is indeed the famous “redhead rapist on a scooter” who has been traumatizing Grenoble and its surroundings for several weeks. The serious evidence pointing to him led a Grenoble investigating judge to indict him this Sunday.
According to Arnaud Lévy-Soussan, the suspect’s lawyer, the indictment concerns all of the seven acts targeted by the judicial investigation and committed between February 8 and March 17: two rapes, an attempted rape, an attempted rape. sexual assault, two aggravated acts of violence and attempted extortion with a weapon. According to the Dauphiné Libéréan eighth victim believes he was attacked in December by this scooter rider dressed entirely in black who allegedly attacked young women exclusively after spotting them in the street and then following them to the front of their homes.
Pre-trial detention required
Placed in police custody on Friday, the pale and slightly plump young man, originally from Fontaine and a priori perfectly socially integrated, was confused by his DNA in at least one of the two rapes. “It can be attributed to him with certainty,” had already indicated Eric Vaillant, the public prosecutor of Grenoble.
Other elements surely came to support the case. The prosecution requested the indictment to be placed in pre-trial detention.