The Advocate General on Thursday, March 4 requested sentences ranging from nine to 13 years in prison against the four accused of a gang rape committed in 2018, in the parking lot of a nightclub near Toulouse.
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The three friends who had dragged a young woman outside the nightclub shortly before it closed on September 16, 2018, are subject to requisitions of 13 years for two of them, 11 years for the third.
The prosecution took nine years against the fourth accused who joined the assault.
After four days of hearing, the trauma remains for the victim who hoped to hear sincere regret, deplores his lawyer Me Ravyn Issa.
"
The defendants only uttered the beginnings of an apology of opportunity, they showed no empathy,"
says Issa
.
I have the painful feeling that for three of the four accused, their conception of consent is one-sided.
Three videos of the rape, posted on Snapchat immediately after the assault, were viewed in the courtroom of the Haute-Garonne Criminal Court.
As for the defense lawyers, we try to minimize the seriousness of the facts.
"
An evening that
goes wrong
in a context of alcoholism
", for Me Caroline Marty Daudibertières.
"
The first relationship was granted
”, according to Me Robin Sénié-Delon.
The four accused have been in pre-trial detention since their arrest, during the second half of October 2018.
The trial, behind closed doors at the victim's request, began on Monday and the verdict was expected Thursday afternoon.