In 2014, a Canadian tourist claimed to have been raped by two police officers at the headquarters of the Parisian PJ, 36 quai des Orfèvres. On April 22, 2022, the two police representatives targeted by this case were acquitted by the Val-de-Marne Assize Court. Three years after their conviction at first instance in Paris to seven years in prison, Antoine Quirin, 43, and Nicolas Redouane, 52, were therefore declared innocent of the rape of Emily Spanton, 42, and emerged free from the palace. of Justice of Créteil. The news was greeted with applause from the relatives of the two accused while the complainant left the court in tears according to AFP. A decision that scandalized on the Web, noted in particular by Hapsatou Sy, shocked and disgusted.
“You can therefore sexually abuse a young woman undeniably drunk, with several, to give him more alcohol, in the premises of the BRI, and to be applauded like artists in a court of the republic after being acquitted and in front of the victim“, she dropped on Twitter, stunned by this court decision which she finds insane.
Calling out to Internet users but also implicitly, as we imagine, the Minister of the Interior Gérald Darmanin or Eric Dupont-Moretti, Keeper of the Seals and Minister of Justice, the journalist, host and businesswoman received many comments, all more critical than the others with regard to this trial with its decried outcome.