Saturday, January 9, 2021

France: Justice at Rouen

Hat tip Paris-Normandie


                                                                                 "Hey, what about that rapist dude?"


Five hundred and ninety years ago, Joan of Arc was burned at the stake at Rouen, France. Almost 600 years later, a young man was raped in that same city. This week, a French court sentenced the perpetrator to.......

8 years. (Had ya going, didn't I?) 

The below article from Paris-Normandie is translated by Fousesquawk.

 https://www.paris-normandie.fr/id154432/article/2021-01-07/condamne-huit-ans-de-prison-ferme-pour-le-viol-dun-jeune-homme-rouen

Posted online January 7, 2021 at 5:01 am

Sentenced to 8 years in prison for the rape of a young man at Rouen

Crime. A man has been sentenced by the criminal court of Seine-Maritime for having raped a young man in an apartment in Rouen.

At the beginning of the week, a man of Afghan origin was sentenced by the criminal court of Seine-Maritime to 8 years in prison for having raped a young man, aged 19 at the time of the (crime), in June 2019 at Rouen.  The court also pronounced a definitive ban from French territory against him. The (prosecutor) had requested 12 years imprisonment with sex crime registration. 

He denies the facts

The complainant had passed the accused on the street when (accused) invited him to his home for a drink. The (accused) had then locked him against his will for several hours before raping him in his room. From the window of the room where he was being held, the victim cried for help. The man finally freed him. The perpetrator of the crime denied the acts during two days of hearings that were conducted behind closed doors. He claimed that the sexual contact was consensual.

"This act has had important psychological consequences for my client," the civil lawyer (for the victim) Clemence Rousselet soberly commented.

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