To see him at the bar of the criminal court, the 39-year-old man does not look like the character he would have created.
Not very tall, with long, poorly groomed black hair, a poorly groomed beard and dressed in medium-quality, ready-made clothes, he is supposed to “be a passing photographer, between Miami and Paris”.
Facts
According to the statements of the young victim, this is how he introduced himself, when he contacted her on a social network: “I am looking for a muse to highlight the line of clothing and underwear. sportswear that I am creating. “
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Over the course of the messages, he explains that he has an apartment on the Champs-Élysées “and a villa in the Nogent-le-Rotrou region”. The young Chartraine is interested in the announcement of the photographer, who promises her € 3,000 per month “if the shootings are convincing”.
“He offered me a date in a fast food restaurant in Barjouville,” explained the young woman when she filed a rape complaint. “To reassure me, he claimed he was gay. I was suspicious anyway. I went there with my companion. “
According to the elements declined at the hearing, during this meeting, the man would have explained that “the casting can be done in his villa”.
The victim’s testimony
On June 17, 2019, the day of the meeting, she presented herself at the “villa”, a simple pavilion, without any special stamp, always accompanied by her spouse.
Still according to the elements presented at the hearing, the start of the photo shoot seems to go normally, with one exception: “He asked me to bring my own sports clothes. It surprised me a bit. “
Gradually, while the companion waits patiently in the garden of the “villa”, things would have started to slip during the photoshoot.
“He asked me to take off my bra, and put on a red thong,” continued the Chartraine at the time of his complaint.
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“Under the pretext that the thong was badly placed, he spread my buttocks and he introduced a finger into my privacy,” she said.
Uncomfortable, and on the advice of her companion to whom she told her story, the young woman files a rape complaint. The man is ultimately returned to court for sexual assault.
The aggressor’s denials
Before the judges, he denies any inappropriate gesture. For the rest, his explanations are much more hazardous.
At the time, he was at RSA. But, according to him, he “was devoured with ambition”. He maintains that he intended to create his own line of sportswear, but he was penniless. The house belonged to his partner, who was absent that day, and it was also one of his wife’s thongs that he had put on at La Chartraine.
The opinion of the expert psychiatrist
The expert psychiatrist who examined him detected “perverse personality traits and a lack of respect for the privacy of his partners.”
The doctor describes the “photographer” as a “Donjuanesque collector, who deludes himself about his skills”. For her part, the young woman confessed to the gendarmes: “I was a little naive. I wanted to believe it. “
At the trial, the public prosecutor asks: “You were looking for a muse without having the clothes? “
The defendant has a response that leaves the magistrate perplexed: “It’s marketing. I wanted to capture the public. “
The jugement
He was sentenced to 36 months in prison, including 16 months closed, in the form of house arrest. He will not have to practice the profession of photographer for five years.
Jacques Joannopoulos
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