His life changed on April 14, 2021. “He left with a part of me, of my soul” explains Lucy (the victims’ first name has been changed), a 27-year-old saleswoman, in tears at the bar of the criminal court of Paris this Monday.
Her pockets are full of tissues, this trial is an ordeal.
But there is no question of asking for a closed session.
Dressed all in black, the young woman wipes her eyes and recounts the precise memories of that day when she was raped and thought she was going to die.
His tone is firm, his gaze determined never to meet that of Alassane N., 31 years old, on trial for two repeated sexual assaults, a rape and kidnapping.
“I don’t look at him, my mind has done the work of forgetting him, I’m not going to do that to myself, but I recognize his voice,” she assures at the stand.
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Lucy was living abroad, she had returned to her mother in Yvelines for a funeral.
Montparnasse station, line N, direction Saint-Cyr-l'École.
On the way, she stops at a bakery, does not know that she is being followed.
On the surveillance videos, we see a man, not very tall, FFP2 mask – nothing surprising in the midst of the Covid epidemic – blue jeans and black jacket.
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