The two officers were on trial for the 2014 gang rape of a Canadian tourist at the headquarters of the Paris judicial police. The acquittal was motivated in particular by “inaccuracies, inaccuracies, even several lies” in the testimony of the tourist.
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The two police officers tried on appeal for the gang rape of a Canadian tourist at the Parisian PJ headquarters in 2014 were acquitted by the Val-de-Marne Assize Court on Friday April 22. The news was greeted with applause from relatives of the two defendants as the plaintiff left the court in tears.
The prosecution had requested seven years in prison against the two police officers, Antoine Quirin, 43, and Nicolas Redouane, 52, who had been sentenced in 2019 to seven years in prison for the rape of Emily Spanton at 36 quai des Orfèvres. The acquittal was motivated in particular by “inaccuracies, inaccuracies, even several lies” in the testimony of the tourist, according to the motivation sheet for the judgment to which franceinfo had access.
The two former agents of the prestigious Research and Intervention Brigade had not ceased to proclaim their innocence since the beginning of the case. Thursday, during their pleadings, the defense lawyers had asked for the acquittal for their clients, questioning the “credibility” of Emily Spanton and pointing fingers at statements “scalable” and “lies” on his part.
During the evening of April 22, 2014, Emily Spanton, a Canadian tourist, met several BRI police officers in an Irish pub located opposite the famous 36, quai des Orfèvres. While the atmosphere was flirtatious, the agents had offered a visit to their premises to the tourist, very alcoholic that evening. She came out of it in a state of shock, denouncing a gang rape.