A man from Tarnais is on trial by the Toulouse Court of Appeal on Wednesday, September 18, 2024, for acts reminiscent of the Mazan rape case. The defendant administered sleeping pills to his wife to abuse her.
New case of “chemical deposition”. A 46-year-old foreman is on retrial in Toulouse on Wednesday for sexually assaulting his wife, having previously drugged her in Lagrave (81) between 2019 and 2022. A sordid prison session reminiscent of the affair with Mazan rape, a trial in which Dominique Pélicot is accused of drugging his wife with anxiolytics in order to rape her and have her raped by strangers.
Wife files complaint after spy cameras discover
In March 2023, Noémie (1) he is in shock. She filed a complaint with the Gaillac gendarmerie, claiming to have discovered hidden cameras filming her privacy in her home. About twenty videos are extracted from the devices in which she appears naked, especially in the bathroom.
She also understands that her husband has been buying powerful sleeping pills on the internet since 2019, to the point of becoming an online pharmacy's “favorite customer”. During a discussion, the latter admitted to his wife that he administered the small pills, without her knowledge, by mixing them with the tomato dish during a family meal. Then after he “touched” her.
He admits the facts
In front of the investigators, this father of two admitted the facts: “I did everything she told him,” he said during a hearing. He will also explain that he drugged her to stop suffering domestic violence, “it was a bit of revenge”, while also stating that he took advantage of his wife's unconsciousness “to caress her buttocks, breasts and genitals”. He admitted that he tried to penetrate her and that he committed the act three times between 2017 and 2022. Hair analysis carried out as part of the investigation will detect traces of sleeping pills consistent with drug use. Zolpidem between October 2021 and December 2022.
Already convicted of sexual assault
Ludovic S. was already convicted in 2023 for sexual assault, after entering the house of a prostitute, abusing her, before offering her 300 euros. In the trial of the Lagrave case, the first instance of which was held behind closed doors in Albi, the defendant was sentenced to 4 years in prison and 3 years of socio-judicial supervision, for sexual assault with the administration of a substance to the victim. and invasion of privacy through image recording.
A sentence against which his lawyer, Me Nelly Magendie, appealed. Contacted, she tempers: “This file has nothing in common with the Mazan affair, because my client was a beaten man. He expresses regret for the psychological damage caused, but explains that he used this ploy to gain affection he lacked. We are convinced that the court will be able to make the distinction”. The appeal hearing is scheduled for Wednesday, September 18, in Toulouse.