A psychiatrist traced Monday to the trial of Dino Scala, the “rapist of the Sambre”, tried for more than two weeks for thirty years of rape, sexual assault or attempts committed on 56 victims.
“The arousal factor is aggression, it is she who makes him erect”, underlined the expert psychiatrist, pointing to the role of the fear of the victim and his domination to characterize a “ sexual sadism”. The accused’s sex life is characterized by “a mixture of poverty and conformity”, an absence of imagination and low investment. By a mechanism of “tight partitioning between two facets of his personality”, Dino Scala felt guilt after his acting out, but in a “very furtive” way.
Anger “against the most important women in his life”
“When he turned off the engine of the car on arriving at work, it was over, he no longer thought about it,” noted the expert, believing that the speed with which he evacuated guilt was akin to “denial reality”. The man, now 61, retained “a very good image of him, of someone good, helpful, a good father”. Experiencing a “breast fetish,” he objectified to his victims, usually attacked from behind, who remained faceless to him.
Doctor Bensussan insisted on the anger felt by the accused “against the most important women of his life”, his mother and his two successive wives. But beyond this factor, the psychiatrist also considers that faced with a “sex life to perish from boredom”, he could have found in these attacks an “addictive” intensity. Dino Scala faces 20 years in prison. The verdict is expected Friday.
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