2023-08-19 12:23:01
Agents of the French Police in a file image IAN LANGSDON | EFE
Police have arrested the attacker, an 18-year-old with a criminal record, in Cherbourg
19 ago 2023 . Updated at 12:23 p.m.
He sneaked into his house, he brutally raped her repeatedly and even used a broomstick to penetrate her. It is the heartbreaking story that the victim herself, a 29-year-old girl from the French town of Cherbourg, conveyed to the authorities and doctors who treated her after suffering the ferocious attack perpetrated by Oumar N. The family of the victim has now taken the opportunity to to thank the messages of support received during the two weeks that have elapsed since the attack, as well as the work of the services involved in caring for the girl in a case that has shocked France.
The facts occurred on August 4 and the information has gradually emerged since then as the investigation progresses, while the young woman remains in an induced coma, debating between life and death, according to reports by the French media. Le Figaro.
According to the testimony of the victim herself, a man – whom she had seen but did not know – entered her home on August 4 and he beat her and raped her several timesfor which he came to use a 75 centimeter broom stick. After the attack, doctors diagnosed the young woman with perforations in the colon, small intestine, peritoneum, and diaphragm, a pneumothorax, rib fractures, cyanosis of the chest, and an elevated risk of septic shock.
The victim has experienced an ordeal and has been massacred, which forced her to operate for several hours and plunge her into an induced coma, as a source close to the investigations recently explained to the French newspaper. The young woman’s injuries were of such magnitude that forced to set up a team of psychologists to support hospital staff in charge of the treatment, since some of them could not hold back their tears when they learned of the injuries, according to the France Bleu radio station.
The assailant, an acquaintance of the authorities
On August 10, Investigations led to the arrest of a suspect: Oumar N. An automated fingerprint database (FAED) made it possible to attribute a trace, found by police officers at a door of the victim’s home, to this 18-year-old young man. This indication was later corroborated by other evidence: the geolocation of the alleged attacker’s mobile phone at the time of the events.
A resounding yes, Oumar N. was charged with rape accompanied by torture or barbaric acts and placed in preventive prison in the prison of Caen. In police custody, he initially denied the facts before finally laconicly admitting when confronted with the discovery of his fingerprint. He did not show any emotion or empathy for the victim. He was cold during the entire police arrest, he tells Le Figaro a source close to the case.
Oumar N. was an old acquaintance of the French police and the courts. he had been sentenced five times by the juvenile judge for crimes of damage to property and violence, as reported by the Prosecutor of the town of Coutances in a statement last Monday night. In fact, his record contained 17 charges, including robbery, manipulation of stolen objects, incestuous sexual assault and rebellion, according to information from French television BFMTV.
A case for the rape of a minor initiated in 2019 was dismissed by the Prosecutor’s Office in 2020, considering that the crime was not serious enough. Proceedings are currently underway for sexual assault against her sister, without it being possible for the moment to determine whether or not these facts have been proven, the Public Ministry said in the same statement.
The 2019 rape would have taken place in a socio-educational medical boarding school, while the attempted sexual assault on his 12-year-old sister occurred in 2022, according to a police source cited by Le Figaro. For this latest attack, Oumar N. was recently summoned for a psychiatric examination that I did not attend.
The family, grateful
After knowing all these data, the victim’s family spoke on Wednesday in a statement sent to Le Figaroin which he expressed your most sincere thanks to all the people who have helped her: the firefighters, the Police, the staff of the Cotentin Hospital Center, the surgeons and especially the intensive care unit for their professionalism, their attention, their support and their assistance.
However, given the unstable and worrying state of health of the young woman, her relatives have not wanted to speak publicly. They regret, yes, the erroneous medical information disclosed by some media and on social networks. And they add: her family, who wants her private life and her privacy to be respected, continues to be very sensitive to all messages of support, but is not particularly in favor of organizing a march or any other demonstration at this time.
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