An hour of ordeal, preceded by the words: "
Do you like chicks?"
Well, I'm going to make you love it
”.
Thirteen years of imprisonment were required on appeal Thursday in Paris against a young man for a lesbophobic rape of "
incredible violence
".
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The Advocate General asked the Assize Court to convict the 25-year-old accused for "
rape on account of sexual orientation
" on a young woman, a crime that happens extremely rarely in the courts. In March 2020, Jeanne's assailant (whose first name was changed at her request) was sentenced to 15 years of criminal imprisonment, the maximum penalty provided for in the event of rape, by the Assize Court of Seine-Saint -Denis. But the aggravating circumstance of the homophobic nature of the aggression had not been retained. The sentence required Thursday on appeal is lower because of the confession of the accused, who finally admitted the rape and violence during this second trial.
"
He wanted to destroy me for what I am
", testified Thursday morning at the bar Jeanne, 34 years old. The petite young woman recounted, upset, "
an hour of torture, staging and humiliation
" inflicted by this boy who had seduced her at Place de la République in Paris, on the evening of October 7, 2017. Expertise medical had noted "
very many wounds on the whole body
", "
a perforation of the eardrum
" and bruises on the neck and thorax, and twenty days of total incapacity for work (ITT) had been prescribed. "
He didn't like me taking him home, telling him no, being a lesbian,
" she told the court.
The young woman also listed the chilling sentences uttered that night by her attacker, when she explained to him that she ultimately did not want to have sex with him: “
Do you like girls?
Well, I'm going to make you enjoy it
”,“
You understand?
Will you do your bitch less now?
", Until the"
little kiss
"asked as he left his apartment after having stolen a ring and his bank card.
Asked by the president of the court about her life after her assault, Jeanne, who writes and composes music, simply replied: "
It was hell
".
"
Straight path
"
In the box, the accused, who arrived from Tunisia as a teenager and placed in child welfare, described by experts as "
immature
" and "
egocentric
", said "
he had no problem
" with the sexual orientation of its victim.
Incarcerated several times for drug trafficking and theft with violence, the young man was also known to the police for acts of sexual assault.
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Referring to a rape of "
incredible violence
", the Advocate General also requested Thursday against him five years of obligation of socio-judicial monitoring and five years of ban from French territory. To the investigators who had questioned him during his police custody, the young man had blurted out about his victim: "
She is weird, she disgusts me
".
For Jeanne's lawyer, Stéphane Maugendre, there is no doubt that her attacker "
wanted to get her back on the right track
", "to
make her kiffer in a straight way
". "
He has an obsession with his homosexuality, he talks about it all the time,
" said the lawyer, who noted twelve allusions to the young woman's sexual orientation in his various hearings. The accused's lawyer, Paul de Bomy, on the contrary asserted that the fact that Jeanne "
was a lesbian was irrelevant
". "
He does not know how he came to this sexual delirium
", "
he reacted in a bestial way
", he tried by way of explanation. "
Four percent of heterosexual women say they have been raped, compared to 10% of lesbian women.
We cannot pretend not to understand,
”insisted the general counsel during the first trial, in Bobigny.
"
A macho is more violent with a lesbian
", she had launched, believing that one had "
obviously not gone to the end
" of the reflection on these attacks of which homosexual women are victims.
The verdict is expected Friday.