“Would you like, after this very long summary, to make any statements?
» asks President Thierry Fusina.
“I will make statements as we go along.
At this precise moment, I am exhausted by what has just happened,” replies Salim Berrada in a faint voice.
In the box of the Paris criminal court, the 38-year-old former photographer has just been reminded, detailed over three and a half hours, of the serious accusations against him: four sexual assaults "by a person abusing their authority" and thirteen rapes “committed in conjunction with other rapes” between 2014 and 2016. Tousled hair over a fine beard collar and rectangular glasses, black top over light jeans, the man, who has always denied the facts, indeed seems stunned.
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