Three years after being sentenced to seven years in prison for the rape of a Canadian tourist at 36 Quai des Orfèvres, the historic headquarters of the Parisian PJ, police officers Antoine Q. and Nicolas R. were acquitted on appeal, this Friday 22 april.
The two agents had been on trial for three weeks at the Créteil courthouse (Val-de-Marne) in the context of the appeal trial for the gang rape of Emily S., a 42-year-old Canadian tourist, which occurred in 2014 in headquarters of the judicial police of Paris.
The young woman and the officers of the Research and Intervention Brigade had met in a pub in the capital located opposite 36 Quai des Orfèvres.
“They thought they could have consensual sex with her. But she doesn’t want to. So we serve him a glass of whiskey to force his consent. And it happens what happens,” said Advocate General Christophe Auger. Heavily alcoholic, the victim had left the premises in a state of shock.
The court announcement was greatly applauded by relatives of the two defendants, as Emily S. left the court in tears. The defense of the plaintiff had in particular been called into question by the lawyers of the defendants, who had wanted to reconsider its “credibility” and its “lies”, in statements qualified as “evolutionary”.
The two police officers had first benefited from a dismissal, before the investigating chamber of the court of appeal sent them back to the assizes in Paris where they had been sentenced in 2019 to seven years in prison.