The Assize Court of Val-d'Oise this Friday sentenced Olivier N. to fifteen years of criminal imprisonment.
He was tried since Monday for trying to kidnap four girls, aged 8 to 11, in Hauts-de-Marcouville, in Pontoise, between March and April 2017. A verdict heavier than the twelve years required the day before by the Advocate General, Elodie Benaiem.
A judgment and a period of detention taken with relief for Kim's mother
(the first name has been changed)
, civil party.
His daughter had been the kidnapper's first victim.
"She is totally satisfied with the response that justice has given to the behavior of Mr. N., completes the victim's lawyer, Mr. Thierry Fernandez.
It is extremely comforting for her who was only 8 years old at the time of the facts to see that the justice believed her, despite the denials of the accused.
"
He apologized "for being the one who caused so many injuries"
The young victims saw the 31-year-old man appear in their apartment building, grab them, gag them and drag them to an isolated location.
They managed to free themselves each time, but these acts had caused psychosis in this residence of 3,500 inhabitants.
During this trial, Olivier N. never really confessed the facts.
Until the end, he clung to the image that those close to him have of him: a young man well brought up and respected within his evangelical congregation.
"In Cergy, I am not the most perfect, but I am someone very appreciated," he reminded the court, just before it left to deliberate.
He apologized "for being the one who caused so many injuries", without giving any justification for his actions.
Always solemn, sometimes obscure, this final speech was in accordance with his statements during this trial.
The four durably traumatized victims
The court has never had any real doubts as to his guilt.
Olivier N. was found thanks to the traces of DNA he left on the clothes of three of the victims.
The police officers were able to put a name on this genetic profile when, in August 2017, he was arrested and then tried for having committed sexual touching on a 9-year-old girl, in Epinay-sur-Seine (Seine-Saint-Denis ), according to the same operating mode as in Pontoise.
The four victims recognized this and delivered a coherent account, almost identical, and which varied very little between the investigation and the trial.
Olivier N. has declared several times that he recognizes the facts and then contradicts them.
As in police custody and during the investigation, he explained that he had acted to scare these little girls.
The fear was there.
The four victims were durably traumatized to have been at the mercy of this man who never confessed his real intentions towards them.
The pedophile nature of his acts is not in doubt for the civil parties
For the lawyers of the civil parties, Me Lehmann, Sudre, Grima and Fernandez, it goes without saying that the motive was of a pedophile nature.
Olivier N. never seemed ready to take the slightest step towards acknowledging his inclinations for little girls.
He denied having carried out scouting in Hauts-de-Marcouville, having waited for the girls.
Why did you go there?
"The four times were times when I went to the hostel for young workers for an interview and I jogged to pass the time," he said.
He denied holding a knife in two of the kidnapping attempts.
According to him, he was holding a piece of hanger, then the second time, a piece of plastic.
“I didn't say:
If you scream, I'll kill you
,” he contested.
And claimed to have threatened to "hit" her.
According to him, these were not kidnappings.
As for the most irrefutable elements, he claimed not to remember them.
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His lawyer, Me Laurent Boula, insisted on the few elements of doubts among the statements of the victims.
He felt that his client could have stopped the girls from leaving if he wanted to.
In at least one case, he froze in the middle of the kidnapping attempt visibly disturbed by what he was doing, according to the testimony of a victim he quotes: “She said:
J was dealing with a worried, confused person.
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