Both officials are accused of violating a Canadian tourist in their offices in the Research and Intervention Brigade (BIS) in April 2014. They had been sentenced in the first instance, in January 2019, at the same sentence .
Le Monde with AFP
The public prosecutor has requested the confirmation of the conviction to seven years in prison of two police officers accused of a rape in a meeting on a Canadian tourist at 36, Quai des Oroffès, in 2014, and judged in appeal by the Assize Court of Val-de-Marne.
“The decision that was rendered three years ago”, in January 2019, when the two accused had been sentenced in the first instance in Paris at seven years in prison, “was balanced,” said the Advocate General , Christophe Auger, during his indictment.
At the evening of April 22, 2014, Emily Spanton, a Canadian tourist, meets several police officers from the Research and Intervention Brigade (BIS) in an Irish pub in front of their premises of the Epoque, the famous 36, quay of the goldsmiths in Paris.
In shock and collapsed
While the atmosphere is in flirting, agents offer a visit to the “36” to Emily Spanton. According to witnesses, when the young woman entered the premises at 0:40, in titubant, she was joyful, while at 2 o’clock the Canadian tourist was in shock and collapsed. Emily Spanton denounces 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 Advocate General said during his indictment, whispering ideas” from another time “.
During the instruction, the complainant identified the two accused, Antoine Q. and Nicolas R. (we anonymons police officers under the decree of 7 April 2011 on respect for the anonymity of certain Police, but not the civil party, which spoke publicly on the case in the media), as part of the “three or four men” who violated him. These two men appealed their conviction in 2019 and always claim their innocence.
“When they were at the pub, they did not want to violate Emily Spanton,” said Christophe Auger during his indictment. “They thought they could have a sexual relationship granted with her. But she does not want. So we serve a glass of whiskey to force his consent. And what happens”, he added.