“I remain determined to put my attacker out of harm's way for me and all his former victims whose complaints were closed without follow-up, while Yéro Ba adopted the same modus operandi,” declared to 20 Minutes Oceane. The young woman, now a graduate of Sciences po Bordeaux, keeps her composure intact to face the appeal trial which opens this Monday before the Angoulême Assize Court. The Gironde criminal court sentenced his attacker to twelve years in prison, on December 15, 2023, for rape at gunpoint.
On July 29, 2021, Yéro Ba, a fifty-year-old in a wheelchair of Mauritanian origin, whom she thought was harmless, dragged her into the basement of the Victoire underground car park, in Bordeaux. He then forced her to perform cunnilingus at knifepoint.
An eyewitness to the rape
At first instance, Océane had already renounced the closed session and approached the media openly. She doesn't change her method. “I decided that the trial would be public because as Gisèle Pelicot says, shame must change sides,” underlines the young woman. “She is there, she is standing and she commands respect through her courage,” comments 20 Minutes his lawyer, Fabienne Gouteyron. She nevertheless suffered significant psychosomatic symptoms, such as very invasive reactive asthma, which the call reactivated by increasing them. »
On the evening of the attack, it was a motorist alerted by her dog who came to Océane's aid. “It’s extremely rare for there to be a rape with an eyewitness,” points out Maître Gouteyron. If in the context of the appeal “everything has to be redone”, according to her, it is certain that this testimony delivered with great clarity before the criminal court in 2023 should also play a key role. The debates will continue until Wednesday before the Charente Assize Court.
The accused, who appears detained, faces twenty years of criminal imprisonment. As for the first trial, the Gironde Family Planning will be present to support Océane.
Requested by 20 Minutesthe accused's lawyer did not wish to follow up.
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