acquitted in 2012 for a murder he had not committed, the one who was a former victim of mistake was sentenced on Thursday for the rape of a young woman in 2018.
Le Monde with AFP
He had spent six and a half years in prison for a murder he had not committed. Marc Machine, former victim of justice error, was sentenced on Thursday, October 14, by the Assize Court of Paris to sixteen years of criminal imprisonment for the rape of a young woman under the threat of a weapon in 2018. The Court matched this sentence of a period of safety of eight years and ordered a sociojudicial monitoring measure for five years. Mr. Machin was also sentenced to pay 25,000 euros of damages to the victim.
In the box, white sweatshirt, imposing body, Marc Machin seemed to accuse the shot at the sentence state, letting out a few tears. In its motivation, the Court took into account the seriousness of the facts “which” led to an extremely important trauma for the victim “, as well as two previous convictions of Mr. Machin for sexual assault, said the President of the Court , David Hill.
m. Machine, 39, compiled since Monday for “rape committed under the threat of a weapon”, “flight” and “domicile violation”. His trial was held in camera at the request of the civil party. She had 22 when Mr. Machin introduced her home on April 21, 2018. Cagoulee, Ganté, with a kitchen knife of 40 centimeters, the man had imposed a blowjob and extorted his credit card number . She thought of dying, many times. Since then, everything shakes. Confused by his DNA, Mr. Machin eventually recognized the facts in custody.
Case of the Neuilly Bridge
m. Machin was wrong six and a half years in prison for the case of the Bridge de Neuilly. Incarcerated in 2001, at the age of 19, he had been sentenced three years later to eighteen years of criminal imprisonment for murder with a knife shots of Marie-Agnès Bedot, a sentence confirmed on appeal. But in March 2008, a fixed home of 33, David Sagno, accused of this murder and that of another woman committed in 2002, which led to the liberation of Mr. Machin. .
In 2012, the latter ended up being acquitted during his trial in revision, becoming the eighth person in France since the Second World War to be innocented after such a procedure. Justice then attributed to him 663 320 euros compensation. Since his release from prison, in 2008, Mr. Machin has accumulated convictions, a fifteen in total, who have earned him for some of being reincarced.