European Court of Human Rights calls France to account in several rape cases

Clara has hope again. The 34-year-old woman has (finally) found a sympathetic ear with the European Court of Human Rights (ECHR) after the acquittal in April 2022 by the Paris Assize Court of the young man she accused of rape, committed during a party at a friend's house in June 2018. Despite the quick complaint, her constancy in the account of the facts and the findings of a doctor of the medico-judicial unit of the Hôtel-Dieu noting on the bruised body of the young Parisian "a purplish bruise" on the left buttock, "erosive zones" at the genital level and "recent fissures" with a total incapacity for work (ITT) of three days, The jurors had considered that "these injuries are not characteristic of non-consensual sexual intercourse".

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