A 36-year-old man, accused of raping his ex-girlfriend twice in 2014 in Marcoussis, was acquitted this Friday by the Essonne departmental criminal court. The attorney general had just requested a sentence of 7 years in prison, in this trial where the question of consent within the couple largely fueled the debates.
The defense lawyers had pleaded for the acquittal of their client, arguing that there was insufficient evidence in the file to characterize the rapes. The facts denounced date back to the summer of 2014. After two months of a romance without a hitch, the sick jealousy of the accused gradually came to disrupt their relationship.