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Editorial Paris
Published on Nov 6, 2024 at 11:04 a.m.
<a href="https://www.world-today-news.com/at-the-rape-trial-at-cochin-hospital-in-2022-the-victim-recounts-a-horror-scene-lexpress/” title=”At the rape trial at Cochin hospital in 2022, the victim recounts a “horror scene” – L’Express”>Faid Abdellah, 24, was sentenced on Tuesday November 5, 2024 in Paris to 11 years of criminal imprisonment and the definitive ban on French territory for the rape of a woman sleeping in Cochin hospital in Paris (14th) in October 2022. The Paris criminal court recognized the accused guilty of rape under the influence of drugs and alcohol, on a vulnerable person, theft and fraud.
His name will also be included in the Fizzythe sex offender file. The facts for which the accused was prosecuted took place on the night of October 27 to 28, 2022.
Awakened “by pain”
On Monday, the 36-year-old victim explained that she had consumed alcohol that evening in a Parisian bar where she is accustomed. On an empty stomach, she felt unwell, fell and was driving to the emergency room of the Cochin hospital, in the 14th arrondissement of Paris.
On site, the young woman fell asleep in her box, before being awakened “by pain”. “I looked ahead and there, I saw a horror scene“, she detailed. One man had “his hand and two or three fingers buried deep in my vagina and he was going back and forth extremely hard and fast.”
The attacker then fled, taking the victim’s bank card.
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Tuesday at the start of the hearing, the bailiff presented to the court the victim’s torn tights pierced with a gaping hole at the level of the private parts.
The public prosecutor had requested 12 yearsof criminal imprisonment against Faid Abdellah, as well as a definitive ban from French territory and his registration in Fijais. The civil party’s lawyers had requested a “firm criminal response” in response to “the devastating impact of this crime” on the victim. “We are demanding compensation for her, but also for all women who have seen their lives destroyed by predators,” pleaded Me Laura Abecassis.
“If she had screamed”
The descriptions of the suspect made by the victim and hospital staff on the evening of the incident converged on a North African man, approximately 1.80 m tall and bearded. He himself would have been hospitalized in the evening at Cochin hospital drunk . Interviewed, the bar manager indicated that he had seen this man near his establishment and that he had acted “ like a prowlermalicious” around the victim while he was on the ground after his fall.
Questioned Tuesday morning, Faid Abdellah’s speech oscillated between “I don’t remember” and version changes . In tears, he ended up asking to remain silent, answering from time to time the court’s questions.
During the two days of trial, the mystery remained unsolvedaround this man, a construction worker, with an “uncertain and fluctuating story” both regarding the unfolding of the facts and the elements of his personal life. “What is true?” The first, second, third or fourth version? », asked the president of the court, Sabine Raczy.
“The real version is the one I told before the investigating judge, the last one,” replied Faid Abdellah, specifying that he did not have “the courage to repeat.” During the investigation, he initially denied the facts before recognizing them at the very end of the instruction. He then admitted to having consumed “cocaine and cannabis” and raped the victim, thinking “that she liked it” and that she “looked happy” and “okay”. “If she had screamed, I would have stopped,” he repeated in court.
The defense had argued in favor of a “mixed” sentence accompanied by socio-judicial monitoring. “He knows his life is at stake. The gentleman’s humanity is there. I ask you to take it into account,” insisted Me Clothilde Humbert. Faid Abdellah, submitted tofour obligations to leave French territorysince 2019, had been sentenced in 2021 to one year in prison with a committal warrant for violent theft.
With AFP
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