A homeless man born in the African country of Mali has been arrested after sexually assaulting five elderly female patients, all in their 80s, at a hospital in Villepinte, France, in the multicultural Seine-Saint-Denis department. The case follows a wave of similar attacks in France and other countries involving foreigners and elderly victims.
According to police sources, the five women — all born between 1936 and 1940 — were approached by the man in the hallways of the Robert-Ballanger intercommunal hospital center during the night of June 27 into June 28.
The women reported that he exposed his genitals and began molesting and groping the women.
Security services were alerted by a doctor at the hospital, who linked a series of reports from nursing staff to the suspicious behavior of an individual who had already been spotted wandering the hallways.
According to French news outlet Actu Niort, hospital staff had first flagged the man to police as early as 12:20 p.m. after a health manager noticed him wandering the corridors. The suspect had reportedly been treated in the emergency room overnight and was supposed to have left the hospital by 5:30 a.m., but was instead found still roaming the premises the next day.
🇫🇷🔴A French journalist says there is a shocking pattern of foreigners raping elderly women in France.
Just this week, a Moroccan migrant was arrested for raping and torturing a 74-year-old woman in Romainville with a telescopic baton.
"She’s raped, a 74-year-old woman, it’s… pic.twitter.com/R5hmO30kxh
— Remix News & Views (@RMXnews) April 10, 2026Police arrived and arrested the African suspect without resistance. He remains in police custody as investigators work to determine the full scope of the assaults and whether he has a prior criminal record.
According to Actu Niort, the victims are considering filing formal complaints.
Part of a broader pattern
Two months ago, Remix News published a story covering 14 different cases involving migrants targeting elderly patients, with many of the victims targeted directly inside French hospitals.
French journalist Charlotte d’Ornellas said there is a shocking pattern of foreigners raping elderly women in France.
🇫🇷🔴A French journalist says there is a shocking pattern of foreigners raping elderly women in France.
Just this week, a Moroccan migrant was arrested for raping and torturing a 74-year-old woman in Romainville with a telescopic baton.
"She’s raped, a 74-year-old woman, it’s… pic.twitter.com/R5hmO30kxh
— Remix News & Views (@RMXnews) April 10, 2026She pointed to a Moroccan migrant who was arrested for raping and torturing a 74-year-old woman in Romainville with a telescopic baton.
“She’s raped, a 74-year-old woman, it’s unimaginable. And it happens again and again,” said d’Ornellas.
“Our job is to bear witness to reality. And that’s why some people are at war with us, they don’t want us to show this reality. If we don’t talk about it, no one will.”
Just earlier this month, a Moroccan migrant snuck into an Ibiza hospital in Spain and sexually assaulted a 69-year-old terminally ill cancer patient, which led the hospital to radically change its security policy.
Boulevard Voltaire, which covered this latest case in Villepinte, also situated it within a wider pattern of sexual violence in French healthcare settings.
According to surveys conducted separately by the National Council of the Order of Physicians (CNOM) and the National Order of Nurses (ONI) in September and December 2024, 54 percent of female doctors say they have experienced “sexist and sexual” violence at the hospital.
Patients, the outlet noted, are similarly vulnerable — often emotionally or physically fragile, or even unconscious, making them easy targets for predators.
Boulevard Voltaire was unable to obtain a comment from the hospital. The outlet raised the question of whether a “culture of silence” surrounds such cases, citing the account of a woman named Christina, whose 50-year-old daughter — who has Down syndrome and early-stage Alzheimer’s — was allegedly sexually abused by another patient in the geriatric ward of Sainte-Périne-Rossini hospital in Paris’s 16th arrondissement in July 2023.
