The former lawyer of the Bar Chartres (Eure-et-Loir) aged 68, is tried this Wednesday, October 24 for rape and sexual assault in Nanterre. Ten years in prison were required, the verdict is expected at the end of the day.

The prosecution requested Wednesday (October 24th) confirmation of the sentencing to ten years in prison of the former lawyer of Chartres, Sidney Amiel. He is judged on appeal in Nanterre for rape and several sexual assaults.

"We are dealing with a sex addict , " said Advocate General Benoît Meslin. "He only thinks about it, and it shows through in his words, in the way he speaks to others, to his clients ... That's what we need to put an end to," he said. he asks.

The accused denied all the facts

Sidney Amiel, 68, a former brilliant lawyer at the Chartres Bar, is being prosecuted for sexual assault on three female clients - one of whom became her secretary - and her ex-girlfriend, who was 12 at the time. Hands on the thigh, forced kisses and unwanted caresses are denounced by these four women.

A former collaborator also accuses her of rape. She described at the bar this day when her former boss stuck her against the door of his office before imposing a digital penetration.

Sidney Amiel, who appears free, has throughout the two and a half weeks of his trial, denied all the facts that are alleged against him. "Touch," "lover of women," yes, he hammered, but certainly not "sexual predator . " "I do not know how to force a woman, I've never done it," said Sidney Amiel, who has been collecting mistresses in her lifetime.

Questioned by about twenty women

"He tells us" I'm tactile "because he was born in Morocco," tried to counter the general counsel. "But he knows very well that you do not touch people, it's something everyone knows! "

He defended himself "sometimes like a moron" conceded his lawyer Caroline Toby, and Sidney Amiel is "certainly a couver, a lecherous" but "the lustful are not rapists and we are not there to make the moral" . "In the case of Sidney Amiel, we are in a gray area, where nothing is ever certain," continued Caroline Toby.

He "is a man from another era," added his other advice, Frédéric Landon, in reference to his recurring jokes.

Described by his relatives as a "shining" man , "full of humor" and "loving" , Sidney Amiel was also accused at the hearing by twenty women - former clients, collaborators or secretaries - of sexual assault and sometimes rapes. Facts all prescribed. The verdict is expected at the end of the day.