A rapist who has left a 29-year-old woman fighting for her life after he raped her several times – sometimes with a 29 inch long broomstick – was also once accused of sexually assaulting his young sister, it has emerged.
In a sickening case that has sent shockwaves through France, Oumar N. broke into the woman’s home in the northwestern city of Cherbourg, grabbed her by the neck and hit her repeatedly in the face and across her body.
The horrified woman was thrown across the room and raped “several times” by the attacker, who also used the broomstick to sexually assault and torture her, reports Le Figaro.
The “barbaric attack” has left the victim with horrific injuries, including a perforated colon, small intestine and diaphragm as well as fractured ribs.
Now, it has emerged that Oumar N. is already under investigation for sexually assaulting his 12-year-old sister last year, a police source told Le Figaro.
A sexual assault procedure against his sister is currently under investigation, without it being possible at this stage to determine whether or not these facts have been established, the Coutances public prosecutor’s office said.
It has also emerged that Oumar N. has previously been sentenced five times by the juvenile courts for violence and damaging properties.
The 18-year-old was also previously accused of raping a minor in 2019 at a boarding school but the case was dismissed by the prosecution a year later on the grounds of insufficient evidence, reports BFMTV.
Oumar N. is currently under arrest for raping and torturing the 29-year-old victim at her home in Cherbourg on August 4 in a case that has sickened France.
The victim, who remains anonymous, was left naked and in a bloodied mess on the floor of her apartment before she managed to reach her telephone and call medics who rushed her to Pasteur Hospital in Cherbourg.
She is still in a coma and is fighting for her life 11 days after medics operated on her extensive injuries for several hours.
“Investigators are shocked, they have never seen so much barbarity”, a source familiar with the matter told Le Figaro.
Within days of the “atrocity”, Oumar N. was arrested at his mother’s home after cops matched fingerprints left on a door handle inside the victim’s home to the 18-year-old and geolocated his phone to the house at the time of the attack.
While being questioned by police, sources say Oumar N. showed “no emotion and no empathy” for the victim and had initially denied the attack before being shown the fingerprint evidence.
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“He has a dangerous profile, he showed absolutely no emotion and no empathy for the victim”, a source familiar with the case told Le Figaro. “He showed coldness throughout police custody”.
Prosecutors said the sinister attacker was indicted on Saturday for “rape accompanied by torture or acts of barbarism”.
The victim told police officers that she had seen Oumar N. in Cherbourg before the attack but did not know him, Pierre-Yves Marot, the public prosecutor of Cherbourg-en-Cotentin, revealed.
The attack she endured and the resulting injuries, which includes the perforation of parts of her abdomen and small intestine, has shocked medics and locals in Cherbourg.
Doctors and nurses who treated the victim when she first came to the hospital were said to be so horrified by her injuries that some broke down and burst into tears. Psychological support is now being provided to the medics, reports France Bleu.
French politicians spoke of their outrage at the attack, with some on the right-wing blaming an apparent rise of barbarism in France for the rape.
Jordan Bardella, president of the National Rally, tweeted: “Courage to the 29-year-old victim, umpteenth life shattered by the barbarism that is gaining France”.
French right-wing politician Eric Zemmour, who ran to be president earlier this year, wrote on Twitter: “I dream of a France where a young woman is not in danger of ending up in a coma after being robbed, raped and horribly tortured by Oumar the repeat offender in her own home”.
Source: Daily Mail
