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"Rapist of the Sambre": "I am not a heroine", testifies the last victim of Scala

2022-06-21T18:06:16.815Z


The young Belgian allowed in 2018 to bring down Dino Scala, accused of having committed eight rapes or sexual assaults at the school of Erquelinnes, a Belgian locality near the French border, examined Tuesday by the court, out of the 56 for which he appears.


"

I am not the heroine who concluded this story, he was not careful enough, so much the better

": the young Belgian who helped bring down Dino Scala, the "rapist of the Sambre", testified very moved Tuesday, June 21 in front of the assizes of the North.

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In February 2018, the 15-year-old girl, headphones on, walks along the train tracks to go to school in Erquelinnes, a Belgian town near the French border.

Dino Scala is accused of having committed eight rapes or sexual assaults, examined Tuesday by the court, out of the 56 for which he appears.

She sees "

a shadow on the ground

" which "

starts to follow her

", then, feels "

someone grabbing

her ".

I started to struggle and I felt a knife, he told me

'

shut your mouth or I'll kill you

'”.

The man passes his hand under her sweater, in her bra, tells her that he “

needs

” it.

I said

'

Sir, you have to let me go, I have my bus to catch

'

, but he continues

”.

Finally, “

he said he was going to let me go

” and “

he left

”.

She then runs to the station, tells the facts to a bus driver who warns the police.

I was shaking so much, I couldn't use my phone

,” she recalls.

Speak "

right away

"

The CCTV images will identify the vehicle of the accused, and his arrest after a journey of 30 years.

Since the start of the trial, several victims have thanked the young woman for allowing the arrest.

"

Certainly, I am the last, but I am not a heroine

," she says.

"

It's because you spoke right away that things were able to move forward

," replies Caty Richard, lawyer for three civil parties.

According to the accused, who only assumed part of the facts for which he is on trial, there would have been no victims between 2012 and this last attack in 2018. “

Your obsessions were silent for six years?

“, asks the Advocate General.

Yes, over

”, but this day in 2018, “

it was on again

”.

Why Belgium, after having raged in France, “

you changed your hunting ground?

also asks the president of the accused, who lived near the border.

You can say it like that

,” replies, without expanding, this 61-year-old former worker.

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I don't think I'll ever get

over it ,” testifies with tears in the voice of another young Belgian woman, raped in a shed in 2009, at age 15.

He is accused of placing a knife to her throat, ordering her to stop crying.

"

He shouted at me

'

shut up or I'll get you high, shut up or I'll kill you

'", she reports.

One less freak

The victim claims to have then experienced “

toxic, destructive, self-destructive

” relationships.

She hopes “

to get better after the trial

.

"

When he was arrested, I thought so much the better one less crazy in nature

".

Judged until July 1, the accused admitted earlier in the morning to having carried out "

for years

" scouting in Erquelinnes to find his victims.

For several other women heard since the opening of his trial, he had on the contrary claimed to have struck at random.

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Accused by a resident of Erquelinnes, 64 years old today, of having stolen 100 euros from him by assaulting him at his home in 2005, he admitted the assault "for sexual purposes", but denied the theft.

We have the impression that it affects you more that you are accused of having taken 100 euros than of having committed 56 rapes or sexual assaults

,

had challenged the president.

Answer:

“It's anecdotal, but it's important to me

”.

Source: lefigaro

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