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”.
“Proven operating procedure” and “risk of reiteration”: “The Tinder rapist” sentenced to 18 years in prison
