An 18-year-old boy, already known to the police, was arrested at the beginning of the month after a brutal rape on Friday, August 4, in the French city of Cherbourg-en-Contentin. The attacker was Oumar Ndiaye, of African origin, who has been accused of “rape accompanied by torture or barbaric acts”, according to reports from the French National Police.

The events occurred around 8:30 a.m., when the agents intervened at the home of the victim, a 29-year-old woman, in the center of the city. Naked and in a state of shock, she reported that she had been beaten and raped in her home, according to Le Figaro.

According to the victim, the assailant had entered her home half an hour earlier to hit her face and body and repeatedly raped her with a broomstick.

The young woman was quickly hospitalized. The doctors diagnosed him with perforation of the colon, small intestine, peritoneum, and diaphragm, pneumothorax, rib fractures, and high risk of septic shock.. According to France Bleu, several hospital nurses were shocked by the victim’s condition and began to cry.

The investigations of the crime scene managed to find the fingerprints of the aggressor on the door of the home. The file allowed the fingerprints to be assigned to an individual: Oumar Ndiaye, an 18-year-old young man of African origin with various backgrounds.

Ndiaye was arrested on August 10 at his mother’s house.. First he denied the facts, but later he ended up acknowledging them. The young man has been charged with “rape accompanied by torture or barbaric acts.”

The young man had been sentenced five times by the juvenile court for property damage and violence, as stated by the Coutances Prosecutor’s Office in a press release. Ndiaye has 17 entries in the criminal record prosecution file. These include acts of theft, rebellion, or incestuous assault.

Ndiaye, born in 2004, had raped a minor in a medicalized socio-educational boarding school in 2019. In 2022, he also attempted to rape his 12-year-old sister. For this alleged attack, Oumar was summoned to a psychiatric expert, but he did not appear, specifies Le Figaro.

“We are in a dangerous profile, he showed absolutely no emotion or empathy for the victim. He showed coldness throughout his police custody,” agents explained to French media.

The event has had a great impact on the country’s media and political landscape. The mayor of Cherbourg-en-Cotentin, the socialist Benoît Arrivé, has communicated through a press release his solidarity with the victim, but has not wanted to use social networks:

“The only attitude worthy of a mayor, of a political leader In the face of such a tragedy, it is discretion and moderation,” he replied to a user who rebuked his silence.

Por su parte, el presidente del partido Reconquista, Éric Zemmour, ha reaccionado en redes sociales a la noticia deseando la llegada de “una Francia en la que una joven no corra el peligro de acabar en coma después de haber sido robada, violada y horribly torturada en su propia casa”.