The video of his gesture had shocked Internet users. According to our information, the man who had offered paid sex to a young woman in the parking lot of a gym in Saint-Maximin (Oise), early July, was placed in custody this Monday morning. This was lifted on Tuesday "at the end of a psychiatric expertise that did not conclude the alteration or abolition of discernment," said the Senlis prosecutor's office.
The prosecutor's office specifies that the facts were requalified as "sexist outrage" while the investigation was initially opened for "sexual harassment", a more serious offense and punishable by 2 years in prison and a fine of 30,000 euros. Without a criminal record, the individual has been the subject of a criminal composition procedure and will have "the obligation to complete a citizenship course and to compensate the victim".
On July 9, this young woman had published on Twitter the video of this man that she had filmed in front of the gym. According to the victim, he first said to her when he was not yet registered: "Here, 100 euros, do you sleep with me?" Viewed more than 5 million times, the images then showed him addressing her with notes in hand: "I have 100 euros there". "So what?" she replied.
As he continued to show off the money, she told him she was "not a whore." "You're chelou. You wait for all the girls and you propose to them? It's not good to do that," she continued before asking him to leave. According to a source close to the investigation, the defendant would have explained during his custody, in front of the gendarmes of the company of Chantilly not "to have perceived the evil" of his gesture and thought that it was a "way of approaching" the young woman.