Stopping prostitution had earned him an afternoon of violence and years of hardship. In March 2017, Valérie (the first name was changed), 56, had been lacerated with electric cables by her pimp and her accomplice in Cergy-le-Haut (Val-d'Oise). Three years after the facts, which had earned its attackers four and three years in prison, the damage assessment chamber examined the civil file of the case on February 13.
Justice will rule on the amount of compensation to the victim on March 19. An expert has already assessed his partial permanent psychological incapacity at 10%, estimating the major impact.
His attackers had given him around thirty blows, leaving rectilinear traces like lashes. Valérie also presented a strangulation lesion. Not to mention the threats. The two men had passed her a knife on the sex before asking her if she preferred that they cut a finger or an ear.
For this trauma, she will have to seize the victims' guarantee fund, the two authors probably being unable to compensate her.
His wish: to train in the catering trades
Meanwhile, Valérie plunged into precariousness, going from 115 hotels to a home, after losing her apartment. This woman, in a very fragile situation for many years, still awaits decisive help which would enable her to find accommodation. By then, she hopes to be able to take training in collective catering.
"I could resume a normal life, rebuild myself ...", says Valérie, who now lives in a minimalist bedroom in a Cergy home. A soluble coffee pot on the table, two chairs, a kettle, a few things. The children's photo.
"In the end, I was attacked and I lost everything"
"I was told that I had to file a complaint, that someone would help me. In the end, I was attacked and I lost everything, ”she says bitterly. His two attackers, arrested on March 31, 2017, had been released before the investigation, taken up by departmental security, took them to court ... six months later.
During this period, for security reasons, Valérie had to be exfiltrated from her usual environment. "I found myself in an isolated mountain village, unable to find a job, without means of transport," says Valérie. This stay in Isère also caused the loss of the RSA, before a return to Val-d'Oise in hotel rooms at 115 and placement in a home in Cergy for four months.
"What I regret is having lost my home"
“Everyone was passing the buck when I was in Isère” confides the one who received the support of associations, the Amicale du Nid, the Cidf and more recently Du Côté des Femmes, which allowed her to be domiciled again in Val-d'Oise. Valérie mentions help "in small pieces but not in continuity". However, it is always followed, in particular at the courthouse for the civil part of his case.
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"It is good that my attackers went to prison. They are now incarcerated. They deserve it. What I regret is that I lost my home. And when you lose it, you don't find it. I have too often changed my psychologist. In Grenoble. Here. In the end, we don't want to go anymore, she admits. So at 56, I find myself there ... I am at the basic life support and I wanted to get out of it. I started prostitution because I was going to be deported. The eviction still took place. It was a tumble… It was in 2015. It destroyed me. "