Nearly five years after the scandalous affair, the Canadian Emily Spanton found on Monday in Paris the two police officers whom she accuses of rape at 36 Quai des Orfèvres during a very drunken evening, but who continue to to proclaim their innocence.
"It has been a cataclysm in my private life," says one defendant. "I plead not guilty," said 49-year-old Nicolas R., shaved head and wearing a dark suit, in his first words at court. "I hope to be able to demonstrate my innocence during these three weeks of trial and resume a normal life.Besides the professional complications, it was a cataclysm in my private life.It was very complicated to explain all this to my daughter. teen ".
The same tone in his colleague, Antoine Q., 40 years: "I could never have done something like this lady". He admitted late in the investigation, probably driven by genetic expertise, that there had been sexual caresses consented, with a digital penetration. "I have been slow to talk about it but I have a family life," he tried to justify.
The Canadian did not speak on Monday. Emily Stanton did not speak on the first day of this trial. Very short hair, black pants and blouses, this 39-year-old Canadian came from Toronto for the trial that is taking place in the Paris courthouse, from where you can see the pub on the other side of the Seine , where the whole thing started on April 22, 2014.
She accuses police officers of forcing her to drink and then raping her. Emily Stanton, while on vacation in Paris, had met the BIS (Search and Intervention Brigade, elite service) police at the counter, in a flirtatious, festive and alcoholic atmosphere. Shortly after midnight, the tourist, Antoine Q., Nicolas R., went to the "36", for a night tour of the famous premises of the judicial police. She entered the building at 00h40, happy, but came out at 2am, in tears, in shock, without her tights, shoes in hand. "Four policemen raped me with condoms," she said in her first statements to investigators on April 23 in the morning. She accuses the police of forcing her to drink and then raping her, with forced vaginal sex and forced vaginal penetrations. She will then talk about at least two rapists.
"The presentations are very contrasting," said the president of the court, when reading the file. The court will hear about fifty witnesses and experts, to try to shed light on the facts. Who says true? The personality and the past of the alleged victim will undoubtedly be scrutinized. The presence of opiate, cannabis has been found in toxicological analyzes. Experts have spoken of a "borderline" personality, but she has not been found to be adulterative.
SMS weighing against the police. A pub waitress said during the investigation that Emily Stanton "appeared as someone who made it clear that she liked sex". But this does nothing to prevent rape. For this waitress, "the two policemen lost control of the orgy". Among the elements weighing against the police, an SMS: "it is a touseuse (swinger, note), despatch", had sent Nicolas R. to a colleague. Photos, videos, messages of that night were erased, but another, raw, was found: "Following our little evening watered, Antoine, kid and Nico have mounted a chick at 36 for the stuffed. filed a complaint for rape ".
The fingerprints of the two accused have been found on Emily Stanton's thong. Two boxers of Antoine Q. carry the DNA of the Canadian mixed with his sperm. The medico-judicial examination revealed in particular a traumatic gynecological lesion on the sex of the alleged victim. According to her lawyer Sophie Obadia, Emily Stanton is still suffering from post-traumatic shock. "She does not work anymore, she went back to live with her parents".
The police, who had been suspended when the case was revealed, returned to work in another department.