“The police officer made several comments to me that I should have expected what was going to happen.“, she declared this Tuesday. “I have verbally and physically expressed my disagreement with any sexual relations, several times, but this does not come out in my hearings“, she also relates.
In this case, the events took place at the beginning of 2017 but the victim did not file a complaint until several weeks later. She relates that he was insistent, that she refused before giving in out of constraint, she believes. Then, before filing her complaint, she returned to see him to discuss her proposed complaint. A meeting which will lead to a new incident of rape in similar circumstances.
“Good father”
“Insistence that turns into violence“, describes the lawyer of the civil party who qualifies with a fecal adjective by the conclusions of the opposing party. These notably criticize the victim for not having “behaved like a good father.“
The standing magistrate can only regret the facts on the one hand but above all the way in which they were collected by the police at the time. “Today, the police are trained and sensitive to the way of collecting these testimonies, I wanted to point out this. Likewise, we take more into account the state of astonishment of a victim. She no longer has to have defensive injuries to be considered a rape victim.“, expresses the black robe of the Brussels public prosecutor’s office before deploring one last thing: the absence of the accused this Tuesday.
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“An element which synthesizes his personality: that of a will-o’-the-wisp much more in the absence than the presence in the procedure. For me, there is no reason to doubt Madame’s word. I also bring to your attention that between 2016 and 2023, four notices for assault and battery were opened against him. I demand three years in prison“, he concludes.
The judgment will be delivered on January 28.
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