Returning from a trip to Tunisia, Pierre-Alain Cottineau, 32, was arrested at Nantes airport on 23 September 2024 and then charged with rape accompanied by acts of torture and barbarism against a 4-year-old disabled child in his home, writes Medias-Presse.info (2 October).
Cottineau is a family assistant (sic) in Loire-Atlantique.
He is best known as a former candidate in the 2021 departmental elections for La France Insoumise (LFI), a far-left party in France.
The arrested man is also a supporter of the Nouveau Front Populaire, treasurer of AlterOudon, a far-left association, a homosexual activist and former president of an association of homosexuals in the Pays d'Ancenis. He was instrumental in organising a homosexual march in Ancenis-Saint-Géréon.
Nantes prosecutor Renaud Gaudeul said that Pierre-Alain Cottineau had admitted several rapes and sexual assaults on the child in his care and had confessed to being a paedophile.
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