“It’s clear that it’s not a moral thing to go out with a 15-year-old girl,” said the 38-year-old defendant. The Thionville court, for its part, judged this story from a criminal point of view. The teenager filed a complaint against him in November 2018 for reporting a sexual assault committed a year and a half earlier, in June 2017.
She says she was with even younger friends when a skateboard guy approached them on the street in Fameck. He claims he is 26 years old. He invites the girl to have a drink at his house before going to the Saint-Jean festivities. They then come back to the apartment, they sit in front of a film. He would have kissed her, she would have pushed him away. The teen explains that he caressed her breast. Then he lowered his hands between her thighs to touch her over her clothes. She flees. He will try to get back in touch with her by message.
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” I should not have “
The complainant, traumatized according to the shrink, ended up confiding in her mother. The accused man was summoned to the Thionville Criminal Court on Tuesday, June 9. And his version of the evening is very different. He assures first that he did not lie about his age. “But you have approached a group of girls aged 10, 13 and 15,” points out the president. The defendant, employed in Luxembourg, pretends that he does not know anyone at Fameck and that he has “good contact with young people”.
For the rest, he swears that he never forced the victim to undress, that he did not caress her. “I kissed her, but she agreed. They even exchanged another kiss a little later. Fitted shirt, hands clasped on the bar, he speaks quickly, shows gestures of annoyance. He thought the older girl. He admits that his behavior was inappropriate. “I shouldn’t have,” he concedes. The 30-year-old, hitherto unknown to justice, confides that he was in depression at that time following a romantic separation.
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Contact ban
“It’s the word of one against that of the other,” said the Thionville prosecutor. But for the magistrate, the accused’s words are confused, his memory falsely fragile. She also relies on the testimony of the young girlfriends of the victim to underline a condemnable attitude. She required two years in prison, six of which was firm.
Defense counsel, Mr. Tiberi, pleads for his release. “Morality must be left at the door of the court,” he said. It dissects the attitude of the complainant. He peels the girlfriends’ statements and judges them contradictory. “They say that the teenager fell in love with my client, that can explain a lot in this case. “
The court finally pronounced ten months suspended prison sentence against the 30-year-old. A sentence subject to an obligation of psychological care for two years. He will also be prohibited from coming into contact with the victim and engaging in activity in contact with minors. His name will be added to the court records of perpetrators of sexual offenses.
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