It's a grotesque court case.
French justice recognizes the rape of a 14-year-old girl during a cruise in Egypt in 2008, but nevertheless dismissed the case on December 31, 2019. In question, the lack of cooperation from the Egyptian authorities, who refuse to communicate the minutes of the hearing of the two respondents.
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The victim appealed this decision.
Thursday, January 13, his lawyer, Me Gilles-Jean Portejoie, pleaded before the investigating chamber of the Riom Court of Appeal (Puy-de-Dôme) to overturn this dismissal.
A decision will be made on February 1.
“
There is one certainty in this case, and the judge said so in her dismissal order, it is that this young woman was raped in sordid conditions.
It is unbearable that our judicial institution bows to the casualness and bad faith of the Egyptian authorities
”, reacts to Le
Figaro
Me Gilles-Jean Portejoie.
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We ask them for the minutes of the hearing but they don't...
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