The 39-year-old man, is judged from Monday for a rape committed in Paris under the threat of a weapon. As requested by the victim, the hearing will not be public.
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It’s a very frail girl, even tiny, blonde with black eyes and black dressed who first came to sit, accompanied by his lawyer, M e Audrey Dufau, At the forefront of the Victor-Hugo Room, at the Assises of Paris, where its rapist, and thief, Marc Machin, appears from September 11 to 14 for “rape committed under the threat of a weapon”, “flight” and “violation” “. She is 25 years old but it looks like a child and the hearing has not even started that she discreetly wipes some tears before they roll under his mask.
She had 22 when Marc Machin introduced, on Saturday, April 21, 2018, thanks to a key slipped under the doormat, in the apartment where she had just spent the night with a meeting of a night, without consent to sexual intercourse. Cagoulete, galvanized, equipped with a kitchen knife of 40 centimeters, the man had imposed a blowjob and extorted his blue card number. She thought of dying, many times. Since then, everything shakes.
And then it’s it, “Monsieur Monsieur, Marc”, as he says to the president at the time to decline his identity, his voice bourru, even when it applies. He was removed his handcuffs, he was dressed in a white shirt, a bit fair, who emphasizes his corpulence, this massive, powerful side, of which he often played to scare women. Under the mask, we see a barbette. He never looks at the victim. He is attentive to the questions. He knows that he plays big, this miraculous, this innocent of which everyone hoped for redemption after his acquittal in 2012. He had spent six and a half years in prison for a murder he had not committed.
Two women among the jurors
To proceed to the draw of the jurors, all present in the room, the president “egg”, as they say in Provence when the balls of the Lotto. There is a bit of this, when he plunges his hand into the wooden urn, blind, to shoot a numbered ball, in wood too, corresponding to the name of a juror. The noise resonates, wood against wood, each time, in total silence.
On the 23 possible holders, plus two additional jurors who attend the debates without participating, so it takes six, which advance to the call of their name to the Court. “Reprused!” By four times, the maximum authorized, Marc Machin’s lawyers, Elise Arfi and Adrien Gabeaud, stopped four women who walked to their seat. It’s pretty violent this word that slams, when chance has just appointed you. They are returned to sit, the disappointment painted on the face. We understand the strategy of the defense: all the young enough young women who could identify with the victim have been refused. It still remains two, one of which one at the age of retirement, and four men.
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