It is an extraordinary case that will be heard for a month at the criminal court in Bobigny. A fake marabout is accused of raping nine women and defrauding dozens more of their money, particularly in Montreuil and La Courneuve (Seine-Saint-Denis). It was a lengthy job for the police to get his victims from the Malian community to reveal their statements.
In October 2020, Aya (the women’s first names have all been changed) opens the door of the police station in La Courneuve. The mother had come with some of her colleagues to file a complaint. That took a lot of courage on her part. A man who describes himself as a marabout has been harassing her on the phone and sending her photos of his private parts since the beginning of the year. She knows from him that he speaks Soninke, a language from Mali, just like her. She only has one of his phone numbers. And so the police investigation begins.
With a tenacity that was praised by the president of the criminal court, the police officers from La Courneuve uncovered the machinations of a real sex offender, who has been on trial at the criminal court in Bobigny (Seine-Saint-Denis) since Wednesday. Le Parisien