A 45-year-old man was sentenced Thursday by the Essonne Assize Court to twenty years in prison for 32 acts of rape, attempted rape and aggravated sexual assault in the Sénart forest near Paris between 1995 and 2000.

Aïssa Zerouati was sentenced Thursday by the Assize Court of Essonne to twenty years in prison for 32 acts of rape, attempted rape and aggravated sexual assault in the Sénart forest between 1995 and 2000. At the end of twenty years of investigation and four weeks of trial, this 45-year-old father was found guilty of sexually assaulting nearly thirty women in this forest located 25 km south-east of Paris.