The Advocate General asked the Court the cancellation without referring this man’s condemnation, declared guilty of sexual assault and aggravated rape on minor in 2003, on the faith of the accusations of a young girl who , since then, admitted to having lied.
by Pascale Robert-Diard
Farid El Hairy stands right in the face of the judges of the Court of Revision, under the gold and the boxes of the hearing hall of the old Palais de Justice de Paris.
“First, thank you for receiving me. Today, for me, it’s difficult. All I ask you is that justice does its duty and recognize me innocent, and above all quickly. My parents are very sick, in palliative care, and I just would like them to hear that I am innocent, even if they have never doubted me. I will stop there because I do not feel very well. Thank you.
– It is the court that thanks you, Mr. “, replies President Nicolas Bonnal.
In 2003, the Assize Court of Northern Minors, Douai, condemned Farid El Hairy for “sexual assault and aggravated rape on minor of fifteen”, and sentenced him to five years in prison, including Four years and two months suspended sentence, a sentence that covered his pre -trial detention. He was 17 years old when he was imprisoned in Loos (North) prison. He is 41 years old today and gray hair. The girl who accused her, Julie D., wrote in 2017 to the Douai prosecutor to say that she had lied.
Her words resonate with the voice of her lawyer, Anne-Sophie Wagnon-Horiot. “After a long work on myself in psychotherapy, I confess you to have lied. Mr. Farid El Hairy is not guilty of anything and has never committed acts of sexual assault or rape on my person. I wish Today restore the truth. I am aware of the gravity of my actions and locked myself up in a powerful denial during all these years. I ask forgiveness, as much at the court as to Mr. El Hairy, his family and his loved ones, For these false accusations. I then found myself in a process of interrogation and investigation that I did not manage to stop. The truth is as follows: I was the victim of repeated incests from this Big brother, between my 8 and 12 years. I failed to restore the truth with my parents, the gendarmes and justice at the time, being locked in my own lie and stuck in the grip of family secret . I feel ashamed and guilty about Farid El Hairy. He did not deserve this. I put D E long years to get out of this denial. Unfortunately, I cannot go back. I will assume the consequences of my actions. “
” Innocent life “
To those of her client, the lawyer adds her own words: “I am aware of the gravity of this solemn and dizzying moment, faced with a man wrongly accused, wrongly detained and condemned. Your audience calls for humility. But let me evoke the courage of Julie D., who allowed this revision. “For the judges of this court, and beyond them, she calls for” do not Not sacred a word, whose content must be confronted with the elements of a file, not to be satisfied with a single word “. “Justice,” said M e Wagnon-horiot, is great when she is able to say that she is wrong. Just as the person who is able to say that she lied To restore the truth. “
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