At the beginning of 2017 in Paris, a young American woman chose to testify openly in Le Parisien-Aujourd'hui en France so that other victims of the fashion photographer she accused of rape would come out of the shadows.
Sandy
(the first name has been changed)
, who had since returned to the United States, had just discovered that this man had been incarcerated after complaints from other women.
In hers, filed in April 2015, the student recounted how Salim Berrada, who had contacted her via a modeling site, had imposed several digital penetrations on her during a photo shoot at his home in early 2015. “He offered a glass of wine.
Everything became blurry.
I woke up naked… He touched me.
It was horrible,” she told us.
Sandy was given 30 days of total incapacity for work (ITT) by the medical-judicial units at Hôtel-Dieu.
Traces of antihistamine drugs were detected in his hair by the toxicology expert.
The young woman, who now lives in California, will not be at the opening of the trial of her alleged attacker this Monday March 18 in Paris.
“She seems to have never recovered from this trauma,” observes her lawyer, Me Martine Moscovici, who was unable to contact her before the hearing.
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