In a state of weakness after having ingested medication, a young woman was raped in the city center of Nice on Sunday to Monday.
A 22-year-old woman was raped in the city center of Nice (Alpes-Maritimes) on Sunday, July 20 to Monday, July 21, 2025, at the Garibaldi square, when she had just made a suicide attempt. A man would have taken advantage of his weakness.
The emergency services were alerted around 4 a.m., according to our colleagues from Nice-Matin. They found the young woman, lying on the ground floor, half conscious because of a potential overload of medication. She then complained of pain in the private parts. After a medico-legal examination, the trail of sexual assault was confirmed.
Vulnerable rape survey
The suspect would have entered the victim digitally for several minutes. He was arrested a few hours later in the Old Nice, near the assault. Placed in police custody, then indicted Tuesday July 22, 2025 for “rape on vulnerable person”, the man was placed in pre -trial detention. He risks up to 20 years of criminal imprisonment. Le Figaro reports that the alleged attacker has already been sentenced in 2022 for acts of sexual exhibition.