A municipal police officer was sentenced Tuesday evening by the Assises of Corse-du-Sud to eight years in prison for the rape in 2002 of his then-17-year-old daughter-in-law, according to the prosecution and lawyers.
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Municipal police officer in Ajaccio since 2016, on sick leave at the time of the trial, this man who denied the facts committed in 2002 in Fouras (Charente-Maritime), was found guilty of rape by someone with authority over the victim. Barbara, the now 36-year-old victim, filed a complaint in 2008 for several sexual assaults and rapes. “
We are more than satisfied, my client is relieved to see that after 19 years, she has been heard,
” Me Johana Giovanni told AFP.
In addition to the victim, several women took the stand to accuse this man of rape, sexual assault or harassment, facts that were prescribed or that had not been the subject of a complaint. “
There was in court the testimony of my client's cousin who had filed a complaint before my client for acts of rape - a prescribed complaint - then another cousin came for acts of sexual assault. A cousin of the accused, who has no connection with my client, also came to talk about sexual assault and finally an ex-companion of the accused who denounced facts of harassment and the ordeal she experienced during weeks with him,
”detailed Me Giovanni.
The Advocate General had requested 10 years in prison after admitting, at the opening of the trial, that this procedure had been "
too long
". "
We have the feeling that it is a verdict which is dictated more by emotion than by reason
", told AFP Me Jean-François Vesperini, lawyer for the police officer, specifying that the decision to appeal or no had not yet been taken, her client having been immediately imprisoned.
