Nicknamed the “Tinder rapist”, Salim B. was sentenced this Friday March 29, 2024 to 18 years in prison for the rapes and sexual assaults of 17 women.
The verdict is in. The one we call the “Tinder rapist” appeared at the Paris Criminal Court since March 18, 2024. Salim B. is accused by 17 women of rape and sexual assault. The judgment was rendered this Friday March 29. On March 20, it was the influencer and former reality TV candidate AD Laurent who was the target of a rape complaint, to which he reacted in an Instagram Story.
Yesterday, the Attorney General requested against the attacker using the dating application to crack down 19 years of criminal imprisonment, two-thirds of which are security. Between 2014 and 2016, the 38-year-old pretended to be a photographer looking for models to attract his victims. At his home, he served them alcohol and then they described a state of abnormal drunkenness and a loss of strength.
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“Tinder rapist” on trial
If the attorney general requested 19 years of imprisonment, a sentence judged “very severe”, it is because, according to him, of the number of victims (seventeen we recall) and the “dangerousness” of a “insatiable egocentric hunter“, precise BFM TV. A worrying personality therefore.
The latter firmly denied the facts throughout the trial. He declared that all women were “consenting”. What came down to the Advocate General rape “their word 17 times”. For the magistrate, the “Tinder rapist” as the press calls him, destroyed 17 lives.
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The conviction of Salim B. known
In 2016, Salim B. was placed in pre-trial detention. He then spent two and a half years in prison then was released in 2019, placed under judicial supervision and banned from working as a photographer, an activity he used to lure his victims. Several of the complainants have also reported her activity to the courts.important” on dating apps. He returned to prison in July 2023 due to new complaints of rape and assault.
Today he was sentenced to 18 years in prison, two thirds of which on security, for 12 rapes and three sexual assaults. But the other investigation is ongoing. Many other judgments for these types of cases are pending. That of Dominique P., tried for having had his wife raped by 50 strangers for ten years in the village of Mazan, will be held next September in Avignon. One of the most shocking stories in this area, which also inspired the victim’s daughter, Caroline Darian, to create an association warning about chemical submission: don’t fall asleep.
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