He had forced blowjobs on a 14-year-old girl in the RER D, hours after trying to rape a 20-year-old young woman, hitting them both, a switchblade in her hand.
After three days of trial, the criminal court of Val-d'Oise sentenced Sylvain D. this Friday evening to fourteen years of criminal imprisonment.
A sentence accompanied by a long socio-judicial follow-up with an injunction of care of fifteen years.
Duration during which, on release from detention, he will therefore have to take care of himself under penalty of having to add five years of detention.
Sylvain D., who fell into delinquency and addiction at the age of 13, violent towards his companions when he did not impose sexual acts on them, admitted the facts from the start of the investigation.
It must be said that the two horrible scenes that occurred on July 31, 2019 in Villiers-le-Bel, then between Corbeil-Essonnes (Essonne) and Melun (Seine-et-Marne) in the RER D had taken place in the field of the cameras train video.
In its reasons, read by the president, Marc Trévidic, the court underlined that these were crimes "with long-term consequences on the victims" and which "create a feeling of insecurity on the victims and the population in general ”.
Rape in transport, added the court, "inspires the worst fears" in women, including "the fear of being killed, which sometimes happens".
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Regarding the personality of the accused, the criminal court underlined his dangerousness.
"The judicial record shows a propensity for violence" against his companions "who must belong to him and submit, especially sexually", underlines the court, which considers the expertises "not very reassuring".
"The accused goes through phases of great dangerousness", notes the court, which tempers however by noting the absence of acts of violence in recent years.
These long-term consequences, the lawyers of the civil parties underlined them in their pleadings.
“There is a before, an after, a life turned upside down”, underlined Me Stéphanie Marcou, who represented the teenager and her family, evoking the worrying repercussions of the facts on her personality: a character today depressive, unstable… “It will take time, according to the expert.
Years, maybe decades to overcome.
"She still feels the pain of the beatings.
She still inhales his scent, underlines the lawyer.
They are also parents who do not want her to grow up in hatred and anger.
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"It's an ordeal"
Me Stéphanie Marcou read a few words written by the young girl after the fact: “I think about it every minute.
I have a lot of flashbacks.
For over a year my life has been a disaster.
She talks about her nightmares, anxiety attacks in transport.
"I am always on the defensive in the street", says the victim, who thinks of his relatives, of his father who could not help him.
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“It's an ordeal.
That day changed everything, ”said Me Zakaria Gueriouabi, the lawyer for the young woman victim of the attempted rape.
He evokes the loss of his job, the abandonment of the idea of settling in life, the fear of undertaking, the consequences on his social and intimate life, "the loss of freedom".
“She also blames herself for what happened to the other victim.
But nothing could stop Sylvain D. that day, ”he assures him.
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“The challenge for the victims was to confront their attacker for the first time.
The stake is not worth it.
It is the understanding, that of their discomfort, which will be able to bring them to their reconstruction ", he had underlined at the beginning of his plea, before concluding it:" The only explanation that he gave is the alcohol.
This motive alone is an injustice to the victims.
It is not satisfactory.
Alcohol is not the only source of this affair.
It is a way for him to push back his responsibility.
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The Advocate General had previously required eighteen years of criminal imprisonment with a two-thirds security period, fifteen years of socio-judicial monitoring.
“I don't want to believe he picked his two victims at random.
He chose young vulnerable women, to satisfy his immediate sexual needs and his desire for domination, ”she said.
She also describes "a chaotic judicial course", with eighteen records in the record, "without ever taking the measure of his actions".
Facts of extreme gravity for the prosecution: “Rape is an invasion of the body, it is a psychic murder, a murder of the soul.
Civil parties will have to live with their whole life.
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