Two former legionnaires were sentenced on Wednesday by the Aix-en-Provence Assize Court to eighteen and five years in prison for the rape and violent kidnapping of Zak Ostmane, an Algerian LGBT activist, in a bedroom. a hotel in Marseille in 2017. The Assize Court upheld the aggravating circumstance of homophobia for both the violence and the rape, of which only Graham Shrubb, a 35-year-old Irishman, was accused.
They are slightly lower than the requisitions of the Advocate General Christophe Raffin who considered that "Graham Shrubb committed the most serious acts and was the engine of the violence".
He had requested 18 to 20 years of criminal imprisonment against the former Irish soldier and eight to ten years of imprisonment against Alejandro Salazar, 29, who would not have participated in the rape.
Referring to the "many gray areas and the multitude of doubts" surrounding the meeting of the two accused with the victim, Maîtres Anaïs Têtu and Olivier Lantelme had demanded the acquittal of Graham Shrubb for the rape.
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