seven years in prison required on appeal against two police officers

The public prosecutor requested, Wednesday, April 20, confirmation of the seven-year prison sentence of two police officers accused of gang rape of a Canadian tourist at 36 quai des Orfèvres, in April 2014. “The decision that was made three years ago”, in 2019, when the two accused were sentenced at first instance in Paris to seven years in prison, “was balanced”said Advocate General Christophe Auger during his indictment.

During the evening of April 22, 2014, the tourist Emily Spanton had met several police officers from the Research and Intervention Brigade (BRI), in an Irish pub located opposite their premises at the time, on 36 Quai des Orfèvres in Paris. The agents had offered the tourist, very alcoholic that evening, a visit to their premises. She came out of it in a state of shock, denouncing a gang rape.

“Do these encounters in the pub, initiated by the defendants, mean that she would agree to go up to ’36’ to have sex? Because a woman has a short skirt or shorts, she would like have to have sex?”was indignant the Advocate General during his indictment, castigating ideas “from another era”. During the investigation, the complainant identified the two accused, Antoine Quirin and Nicolas Redouane, as part of the “three or four men” who raped her.

The two men had appealed their conviction in 2019 and had been released. They continue to proclaim their innocence. “When they were at the pub, they didn’t want to rape Emily Spanton. They thought they could have consensual sex with her, estimated Christophe Auger during his indictment, But she doesn’t want to. So we serve him a glass of whiskey to force his consent. And it happens what happens.”