Toulouse: two men tried and sentenced for rape
The Haute-Garonne criminal court tried and sentenced two men for rape this week. Two files, two illustrations of the treatment of these crimes by justice.
In his costume, he cashed the decision: 5 years in prison including three years suspended. A few words to his lawyer Me Caroline Barbot-Lafitte and this 43-year-old man, a former soldier who became an agent in a medical establishment in Switzerland, followed the police. Direction the remand center and the execution of his sentence for a rape in the summer of 2018.
That year, on his way to vacation, this man stopped to sleep with a friend in Toulouse. Festive reunion and, very quickly, very alcoholic. “To the point where he doesn’t remember anything,” warns his lawyer. Hard to believe ? The sequel is just as much. The man finds himself in another apartment where a couple exchanges hugs. He participates, slides his hand until the woman refuses the advances of the one she thinks is her companion… She and her friend realize. Howls, flight, arrest. It seemed so unbelievable that only the discovery of the victim’s DNA under the fingernails of the suspect convinced justice. And criminal court on Wednesday.
Genetic analyzes are also described at the heart of another file. A man claimed to be innocent of a fellatio he had imposed on a young woman in the spring of 2009. The police had indeed discovered a trace in a condom but this DNA remained unknown. Until 2016. Since the suspect denied, even when after a new analysis, the DNA of the victim and the suspect were identified on the same condom.
Thursday at the opening of the debates, this father of a child, who worked, finally recognized the facts. A release almost 13 years later for the victim, defended by Me Céline Oustalet-Cortes. “The end of a long and often difficult road for this woman finally heard as a victim”, confides her lawyer. The accused was sentenced to 7 years in prison. He was taken into custody on Friday evening. He had not spent a single day in pre-trial detention.