A 23-year-old man was found not guilty of sexual assault in a French court. He was accused of having sexual intercourse with a female colleague in his apartment.

The woman, then 18, had filed a complaint against the man, who was three years her senior. The judge acquitted him "with the benefit of the doubt" in the Meaux court in Montévrain, France. He said: "I didn't want to hear that she wasn't saying yes”