Accused of violating a Canadian tourist in their offices in the Research and Intervention Brigade in April 2014, the two officials had been sentenced at first instance at seven years in prison.
Le Monde with AFP
The two police officers who were judged on appeal for the rape in 2014 a Canadian tourist at the Parisian PJ headquarters, 36, Quai des Glopson, were paid on Friday by the Court of Assizes of the Val-de -Marne.
Three years after their condemnation at first instance in Paris at seven years in prison, Antoine Quirin, 43, and Nicolas Redouane, 52, were declared innocent of the rape of Emily Spanton, 42, and came out free Créteil’s courthouse where they were judged for three weeks.
The public prosecutor had claimed the confirmation of the first conviction, judged “balanced”.
rape in meeting
On the evening of April 22, 2014, Emily Spanton, Canadian tourist, had met several police officers from the Research and Intervention Brigade (BIS) in an Irish pub in front of the famous 36, wharf of Looks. While the atmosphere is in flirting, agents offer a visit to their premises to M me spanton, very alcoholic that night. It emerges in shock, denouncing a rape in a meeting.
“Are these advertising reconciliations initiated by the accused mean that it would agree to climb to” 36 “for sex? Because a woman has a short skirt or shorts , she would necessarily want to have sex? “, the general counsel had been indignant, whispering ideas” from another time “.
In the instruction, the complainant had identified the two accused, Antoine Quirin and Nicolas Redouane, as part of the “three or four men” who violated him.
Antoine Quirin’s DNA has been found inside the vagina of the complainant. He explained it by a digital penetration granted in the car he had used to bring him to the “36” since the pub where they had met. “Highly unlikely”, retorted the Advocate General Christophe Auger, DNA has been found at the bottom of the vagina.
Nicolas Redouane had told having had a blowjob, granted on the part of the complainant. Depending on him, the Texto “This is a tongue [orgy]. Dispatch”, sent to another police officer, a time placed under the witness status attended in this file.
“credibility “From the complainant attacked
At the hearing, the defense lawyers of the two policemen had pleaded the acquittal, in particular, contesting the “credibility” of the complainant. Emily Spanton “was diagnosed” borderline “by an expert, it means that she is changing mood,” Pascal Garbarini, made Mr. Redouane lawyer. “This is of course not because it has had multiple and varied relationships when they arrived in Paris that it could not be violated. But why deny them?”, Had he added.
“I do not know if in this file he has an interlocutor to which Mrs. Spanton did not lie on at least one point,” has supported M e Anne-Laure Compense, Council of M . Quirin. At the time of the facts, she was “a sick woman, in depression, who took drugs every day,” she continued.
One of the lawyers of Emily Stanton, M e Sophie Obadia, had defended his client against these attacks targeting his way of life or his sexual habits, she who had made preliminaries with an American tourist in Paris a few days before the facts.
His client “is not at all the one we have been presented to us, a Marie-Layer or a hottie”, pleaded M e Obadia. “She has mature and free sexuality”. His story, she added, “is the archetype of the fighter’s path of a rape victim: she had to invent little lies to be raw. But she is not crazy, it’s not not an affabulator “.
“I say as a lawyer we do not have to go to work at this point the intimate life of a complainant,” she said, before concluding that she hoped to “give Emily Spanton his dignity of Woman “.
The news of the acquittal was welcomed by the applause of the relatives of the two accused, while the complainant left the court in tears.