The Paris Assize Court sentenced Friday, December 16 to eight years in prison a former judge from Mayotte tried for the rape of a young woman after an evening in a bar in the Indian Ocean archipelago in 2014, we learned from a judicial source.
The court, which made its decision after about ten hours of deliberation, requested a warrant of committal against the former magistrate, the same source said.
The lawyer for the former investigating judge, Me Léon Forster, told AFP that he had immediately appealed to prevent his client from sleeping in prison.
Two parts with opposite versions
The prosecution had requested 12 years in prison during this trial, which took place behind closed doors.
Open for eight years, the case opposes two parties with radically opposed versions of the night of July 1 to 2, 2014. That evening, the examining magistrate Hakim Karki goes to Caribou, a popular restaurant in Mamoudzou which serves as a to the officials of this French department in the Indian Ocean.
The magistrate, who said he led "
a monk's life
", in a remote relationship with his lawyer companion on the island of Reunion, finds himself at the table of two young women he knows from afar: a teacher and professor dance, S., accompanied by a friend who will leave the evening early.
Worried about finding a taxi home, it is agreed that the judge will bring S. back after dinner.
"I was flabbergasted"
Hakim Karki said during the investigation that the complainant "
jumped on
him " as soon as he got into the car for a wild sexual relationship in several stages and that he let himself be done even if, he added, this n was not his "
trip
".
The teacher, for her part, assured that she was forced during the trip to perform fellatio by a violent "
technique
" of holding the jaw and then followed, in a state of shock, the magistrate to his home to try to get an explanation. , before being raped there again.
“
I was flabbergasted
,” she said, before recounting that she ended up asking her alleged attacker to take her home.
Two days later, the young woman pushed the door of the police station and immediately said she feared the consequences of her complaint.
" He
's not a lambda citizen, I don't want to be crushed
," she said during her first audition.
Suspended from duty
Briefly imprisoned, the judge has since been placed under judicial supervision and suspended from his duties.
Hakim Karki first replied that his accuser was "
unbalanced
" then declared himself possibly the victim of a plot to keep him away from the island, where he was investigating files deemed sensitive including an embarrassing affair for the Lafarge group , a French cement giant.