After more than six hours of deliberation and at the end of two weeks of trial, the Paris departmental criminal court sentenced this Friday Salim Berrada, 38, to a sentence of 18 years of criminal imprisonment accompanied by a security period of both third parties and a definitive ban from French territory. The former Moroccan photographer was found guilty of twelve rapes and three sexual assaults, committed between 2014 and 2016 during photo shoots in his studio in the 20th arrondissement. The man who was nicknamed “Tinder rapist”, and who always denied the facts, was on the other hand acquitted of rape and sexual assault, “the court considering that the facts were not sufficiently characterized”.
Hands placed on the edge of the box, Salim Berrada listens, motionless, as President Thierry Fusina explains late Friday evening "the reasons which guided" the choice of a sentence "both necessary and proportionate to the seriousness of the facts and the the extent of the harm suffered by the numerous victims. The court, explains the magistrate, notably retained the “addiction to sex” established by the personality experts. She considered “the particularly elaborate, organized nature” of the crimes committed, which responded “to a proven operating mode” as well as “their worrying serial nature”, with a “multiplication of facts in an increasingly short time, particularly in 2016”.
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