Originally from Grenoble, the young woman who accuses Moroccan star Saad Lamjarred of rape was heard on Tuesday on the second day of the singer’s trial before the Paris assizes. She told her version of the facts.
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She was a young seasonal worker in the hotel business and had no idea he could be a star in Morocco. Originally from Grenoble, Laura P. is the woman who accuses Saad Lamjarred of having raped and hit her on October 26, 2016 in the room of a large Parisian hotel. The trial of the 37-year-old singer began on Monday before the Paris Assize Court.
“Marry me, marry me”
Tuesday, at the bar, she told how Saad Lamjarred and she had kissed, after a meeting in a nightclub, before he suddenly threw her to the ground: “He got astride me. He tried to rub up on me. I started crying. I begged him to stop. A rape – with his fingers and sex – accompanied by punches and slaps, which he thought to erase a few minutes later by offering her money and a bracelet, or by suggesting a marriage.
“Marry me, marry me,” said the singer, who had consumed alcohol and cocaine.
Anxiety attacks and death threats
When Laura calls him a “monster”, he hits her again, and strangles her. “I started seeing stars. I thought it was over, ”explains the young woman in front of the court, who will manage to leave the room to find refuge with hotel employees.
At the bar, she had to muster all her strength not to collapse when the T-shirt torn in three places that she wore on the evening of the facts was presented to the court. Tears welled up, but she held on.
In the months that followed, Laura P. had to live with anxiety attacks, false articles, death threats and insults on social networks. She claims that a sum between “500,000 and 1 million euros” was offered to her to withdraw her complaint. “I changed my life. I am no longer me, ”concludes the 27-year-old young woman, who left the metropolis and now wants to be recognized as a victim. “I want there to be written victim everywhere, she repeats. I want to get back to a normal life. »
“Dark Look”
Six years later, she cannot explain why Saad Lamjarred turned violent in a fraction of a second, after an evening that was going well. “I liked him physically, I’m not going to deny it,” she concedes. But she specifies: “I did not show any sign that could suggest that I wanted to go further. “He went from a benevolent, caring person, to someone haughty, with dark eyes, and no one inside anymore,” she summarizes.
Indicted for similar facts in New York in 2010 – the proceedings were dropped after a financial agreement with the victim – Saad Lamjarred was also accused of rape in Casablanca in 2015 by a Franco-Moroccan – a case had been dismissed. been ordered. He claims to have “great respect for women” and defends himself from any attack on Laura P. . “If something panicked her and scared her, it was not my intention at all,” explains the singer, who is awaiting trial for another rape charge, in Saint-Tropez in 2018.
He faces 20 years of criminal imprisonment, and will be questioned this Wednesday by the court on the night of October 26, 2016. Verdict Friday.
