Criminal courtyard
He is 7 years old for having raped a teenager on a Montreux beach
A 19 -year -old Syrian had sexually assaulted a 13 -year -old American tourist, who had run on the evening of August 1, 2023. The attacker had filmed his act.
The case tried this week in Vevey took place in August 2023 in Montreux.
Odile Meylan/Tamedia (Archives)
- The Court of the Vaud Criminal Court condemns a young Syrian for the rape of a minor.
- The 13 -year -old Californian teenager was attacked during a night fugue.
- The aggressor filmed his actions on a deserted beach in Montreux.
- Justice condemns the attacker to seven years in prison and 30,000 francs of compensation for moral wrong.
In order for doubt to benefit the accused, there is doubt. However, the Court of the East Vaud Criminal Court obviously did not go out the “coldly served” version a second, dixit the victim’s lawyer, by the young defendant of this sordid case of rape on minor.
Justice has also not retained the arguments of its automatic defender, who demanded the release of his client. It was therefore a private sentence of firm freedom that she signified to this Syrian, now aged 21, who denied the facts to the end without emitting any regret.
In this, the four judges and the president followed to the letter the indictment of the prosecutor Myriam Bourquin. In the indictment, we understand the horror experienced by a 13 -year -old Californian teenager, who came with the family to spend a few days in Switzerland in the summer of 2023.
Teenage girl
The evening of 1is August around midnight, Ginny* Fugue from her Montreusian hotel to join a friend whom she will not find. His journey crosses that of Fayez*, unable to explain convincingly the reason for his presence there. “Difficult therefore to stop the image of someone who wanders to Montreux In search of a prey, ”will let goe Raphaël Jakob, adolescent lawyer exempt from appearance.
After arresting it for the first time, Faye is finding the teenager and exchanges a few words thanks to the automatic translator of her phone. Decontenanized, then frightened and worried, Ginny evokes a “boyfriend”, says that she is a minor and leaves, refusing that failing the before. But he catches up with it and immobilizes it. While she takes out a small Swiss knife, the assailant grabbed it and injured her in the thigh before taking her on a small deserted beach.
Part of the filmed rape
Keeping out of sight, he forces it to a first blowjob, then penetrates it vaginaly, the strength to remake a second blowjob and leaves the scene, not without having filmed part of its actions. “With his permission,” he says …
It is that in the version of the defendant, which often contradicts, sexual relation was as unforeseen as they are consented. “Her behavior made me think that she wanted something with me,” he said in hearing on Monday.
The prosecutor will say it in his indictment, this fatal evening in August on the verge of Lake Geneva, a 13 -year -old girl was not only the victim of rape committed with cruelty, but she also believed that we were going to kill her.
Admittedly, Ginny responds to passers -by, worried about seeing her with blood on one leg: she was raped. And she designates her attacker, who is just a little further. But she fled before the police arrive. “It is a teenager who feels guilty of having runs away, who is frightened, shameful and sure that we will not believe her,” explains the Bourquin prosecutor.
Remote investigation
In fact, it was not until three weeks later, back to the United States, that Ginny collapses, speaks to his mother and triggers a judicial system that comes up against the obstacles caused by distance.
Me Than-My Tran-Nhu seizes this difficult communication to try to exonerate his client: collected by videoconference, the versions of the mother and the daughter are not always uniform. “We describe my client as a violent sex predator. How can we explain that he remains on the scene after the facts and he sends, at the request of Ginny, the images he filmed? ” Resumes the lawyer.
Relying on the information extracted from the young girl’s laptop by the police, Me Tran-Nhu is also surprised by the sexual nature of certain research on the Internet “by the victim of rape a few hours, then a few days after the facts”.
Not enough to shake the conviction of the Court which ultimately condemns FAYE to 7 years’ imprisonment (minus the 511 days of preventive already purged) for serious bodily lesions, sexual acts with children, sexual constraint with cruelty, rape with cruelty and pornography. He will also have to pay 30,000 francs as a repair for moral wrong.
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