The civil servants had been implicated in 2014, following a complaint filed by a Canadian tourist. In 2019, at first instance, they had been sentenced to seven years in prison.
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eight years to the day after the facts, more than three years after a sentence to seven years in prison at first instance, the two police officers accused of the rape of a Canadian tourist in the premises of the Research Brigade and Intervention (BRI) from Paris left, free, Friday, April 22, the Val-de-Marne Assize Court to the applause of their relatives. Antoine Quirin, 43, and Nicolas Redouane, 52, were declared innocent of the rape of Emily Spanton, 42, after a trial which lasted three weeks. He had been postponed twice, due to the pandemic of Covid-19 then the hospitalization of a lawyer.
Wednesday, April 20, the Advocate General Christophe Auger had requested confirmation of the initial sentence, evoking police officers who had “forced the consent of the young woman”. The court did not follow him. “This is a fair decision, estimated M e Pascal Garbarini, and a strong reminder that when we accuse someone, we must bring elements of evidence on the facts that we claims to denounce. “
His client, Nicolas Redouane, has been suspended since his questioning while his colleague and co -accused has been the subject of a reintegration within the national police but is now assigned to essentially administrative tasks. M e anelore compoint, lawyer for Antoine Quirin alongside M e Thierry Herzog, welcomes a decision taken after “a trial carried out serenely, where all the elements were debated, where nothing was put under the carpet. This file ended up becoming what it should be again: a criminal case and not a surmediative news item involving police officers “.
” Many inaccuracies “
During the night of April 22 to 23, 2014, Emily Spanton, a Canadian tourist, had met several BRI police officers in an Irish pub close to 36, Quai des Orfèvres, the headquarters of the Parisian judicial police. After a few glasses and exchanges of kisses with civil servants, the young woman had been offered an impromptu visit to the premises of the brigade. It was out of it until a time later, in shock, to immediately denounce the officials monitoring the building of unwanted sexual relations. The investigation had mobilized significant resources, commensurate with the stir caused by the revelation of the case: nearly 150 police officers had been the subject of genetic samples and extensive investigations had been carried out on telephony.
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