“Tinder rapist”: 19 years of criminal imprisonment required against the accused

A sentence of nineteen years of criminal imprisonment was requested Thursday before the Paris criminal court against Salim Berrada, nicknamed “the Tinder rapist” by the press and accused of having raped or sexually assaulted 17 women between 2014 and 2016. A very

sentence

– the maximum incurred was twenty years – for the one who

. It is justified according to the general advocate Philippe Courroye by the number of victims attracted to this photographer now 38 years old via dating sites, and the

of this

who contested all the facts .

Standing at his desk, facing the accused, the attorney general addressed the accused, leaning on the edge of the glass box. Since last week the latter has

the complainants who came with their

to the bar, he told him. But Salim Berrada remained

,

:

. The relationships were either consensual or did not exist.

,” says the magistrate. The plaintiffs, most of them in their early twenties at the time, have come in large numbers every day since the trial opened.

“Learned, sneaky, compulsive”

They were pressed against each other again this Thursday while the attorney general returned to each of their stories to describe the almost identical modus operandi of the accused. The magistrate noted several

elements of this

:

of the accused, the

of this

,

.

“He is dangerous”

also

,” added the magistrate, recalling that he was also indicted in another case for similar facts.

. Salim Berrada will speak one last time Friday afternoon after the pleadings of his defense, the verdict is expected Friday evening.