Europe 1 with AFP 3:10 p.m., April 22, 2022

The two police officers who were tried on appeal for the gang rape in 2014 of a Canadian tourist at the headquarters of the Parisian PJ, 36 quai des Orfèvres, were acquitted on Friday by the Val-de-Marne Assize Court.

Three years after their conviction at first instance in Paris to seven years in prison, the two police officers came out free.    

The two police officers who were tried on appeal for the gang rape in 2014 of a Canadian tourist at the headquarters of the Parisian PJ, 36 quai des Orfèvres, were acquitted on Friday by the Val-de-Marne Assize Court.

Three years after their conviction at first instance in Paris to seven years in prison, Antoine Quirin, 43, and Nicolas Redouane, 52, were declared innocent of the rape of Emily Spanton, 42, and emerged free from the courthouse of Créteil where they had been on trial for three weeks.

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