"
I resented many people
", but "
never the victims
": Dino Scala was confronted Monday, June 27 with the analyzes of experts, who described a "
narcissistic rage
" tipping this "
Mr. -World
” in a serial rapist journey.
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In front of the assizes of the North, the sexagenarian, tried for rape, sexual assault and attempts on 56 victims between 1988 and 2018, in France and Belgium, listened to the psychiatrist Paul Bensussan describe "
the abyss which separates (at home) the social face and the hidden face
”.
In this "
most normal man in the world
" with a very active life, father, maintenance technician and football coach, no hyper-sexuality, but an intimate life marked by "
conformism
" and the lack of imagination.
"
The arousal factor is aggression
", the fear of the victim and the fact of dominating her, which characterizes "
sexual sadism
", developed Dr. Bensussan.
Attacking these women gave "
a feeling of omnipotence
" to this man, angry both at his mother, accused of having disliked him, and at his two successive wives, whom he considers the first profiteer and the second disappointing .
A mechanism of “
tight partitioning between two facets of his personality
” then allowed him to feel only “
very furtive
” guilt and to maintain “
a very good image of him
”.
“
When he turned off the engine of the car on arriving at work
”, after attacks generally committed in the early morning, “
it was over, he no longer thought
about it ”, noted the psychiatrist.
"Shadow Aggressor"
For the psychological experts also whose reports the president read, this eternal second, convinced of not being recognized at his fair value whether in his married life or in his profession, regained control through the attacks.
They also gave him the feeling of dominating the authorities, unable for many years to prevent him from doing harm.
The facts with which he is charged would thus express the “
narcissistic rage
” of a man who had become “
the aggressor from the shadows
”, because he was left in the shadows.
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Explanations to which Dino Scala does not entirely adhere, his head often lowered during the debates but clear speech when questioned.
"
I've never felt so much pleasure in it, but the idea is sexual assault,
" he agrees.
Before qualifying, in response to a lawyer for the civil parties, Caty Richard: “
I liked having control but it was not automatic
”.
As during the investigation, and since the start of his trial, he insists on his evolution thanks to his psychiatrist, and assures that being arrested “
allowed him to become someone normal again
”.
But he does not really explain either the triggering or the reiteration of the facts with which he is accused.
“Still work”
Nor does he follow his lawyer, Margaux Mathieu, who tries to dig into the incestuous climate in which he grew up, or one of the lawyers for the civil parties, Emmanuel Riglaire, who challenges him on the "
central
" role of his mother. .
His sister had told the bar that she had been abused by their father.
“
I never felt love from my parents towards me and I never felt the opposite
”, he sums up only, saying that he was “
raised the hard way
”.
Does he have more keys to understanding his career today, asks his lawyer: “
yes, a little more, but there is still work to do
”, he replies.
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Me Mathieu insists on the absence of aggression in the file between 2013 and 2018, a period during which he took care of the father of his wife, a surrogate father suffering from Parkinson's disease.
In the box, Dino Scala cries, like every time his stepfather is mentioned.
He faces 20 years in prison.
Verdict Friday.
