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One of the defence lawyers successful the ongoing wide rape proceedings successful France has drawn disapproval from chap lawyers aft sharing a video of her dancing and singing online.
Nadia El Bouroumi, 45, is 1 of the defence lawyers successful the proceedings of Dominque Pelicot and 50 different men, who are accused of raping Pelicot’s woman Gisele implicit a decade.
Pelicot admitted successful court to repeatedly tranquilising his woman and allowing dozens of different men to rape her aft advertizing her connected a website called ‘Without Her Knowledge’.
El Bouroumi is representing 2 of the different men involved, Omar Douiri and Jean Marc Leloup.
But her behaviour has been criticised by different lawyers some owed to her behaviour successful court, and her caller clip shared connected societal media, MailOnline reports.
She posted a video of herself singing and dancing on to Wham’s Wake Me Up Before You Go Go – and the nexus betwixt the song’s chorus and Pelicot’s actions referencing ‘the chemic submission suffered by the victim’ was ‘hard not to see’, according to section insubstantial La Provence.
The clip was posted successful retaliation against disapproval of her method successful tribunal – arsenic El Bouroumi had been heard raising her dependable and criticising Gisele portion sowing doubts astir her intersexual behaviour.
The video was captioned: ‘To each the extremists who deliberation they tin muzzle me! This is for you!
‘Never volition you unopen maine up due to the fact that you consciousness my sentiment oregon presumption doesn’t suit you…this opus is for each those who person to get up aboriginal earlier they tin unopen maine up.
‘I was beaten and raped erstwhile I was younger and I did not go hateful against man. I don’t confuse my communicative with anyone else’s.
‘All the well-thinkers who insult and denigrate maine nether the pretext of defending 1 pistillate are moving hard connected another! May God forgive america our trespasses!’
Last week, the tribunal was shown respective graphic images and video clips of Gisele successful assorted states of undress with her ex-husband and different men.
In response, El Bouroumi said: ‘She (Mrs Pelicot) says she doesn’t remember, but those who person received photos of her tin spot that she is contiguous there, she moves, she speaks.
‘When you person photos similar these, you tin accidental to yourself that this is simply a pistillate who likes intersexual games.’
El Bouroumi aboriginal said she had ne'er denied Gisele her presumption arsenic a unfortunate but wanted to constituent retired inconsistencies betwixt her grounds and the expertise of chemic submission ,adding she had ‘the close successful a ideology to beryllium a defence lawyer’.
However, her Instagram video was condemned by Nicolas Hervieu, a ineligible prof astatine the University of Evry adjacent Paris who said: ‘The lawyer’s state of look does not authorise them to springiness violent, vulgar oregon a cynical representation of their profession.’
Corisca based lawyer Jean-Pierre Ribaut-Pasqualini wrote: ‘You interaction the full representation of the assemblage with your publications.
‘I conscionable watched the video (one of the videos?) posted by the workfellow who intervenes successful the Mazan case. I americium dismayed and devastated.
‘I person the feeling that the proceeding is present retired of control. It’s dramatic.’
While different colleague, Marseille based Alain Lothe said: ‘Spreading things similar this connected societal media and singing this verse seems unworthy to maine and not successful enactment with the requirements that are ours arsenic lawyers.’
In effect to the condemnation, El Bouroumi posted a lengthy connection connected societal media saying she ‘at nary point’ tried to marque amusive of Gisele, and that she had been ‘misunderstood’.
Who is El Bouroumi defending successful court?
El Bouroumi is representing 74-year-old retired motortruck operator Jean-Marc Leloup, and recruitment advisor Omar Douiri, 36.
According to a tribunal document, Leloup went to Pelicot’s location respective times betwixt January 2011 and November 2020 and is accused of rape.
He has been divorced for 20 years, a grown-up girl aged 45, and helium told constabulary helium ‘liked women and libertinage’.
Leloup told researcher the archetypal clip helium went to Mazan, Pelicot had told him his woman ‘took sleeping tablets’ and this was ‘a crippled for her’ but thing had happened.
He added that helium Pelicot ne'er said ‘he was drugging his wife’ but that she ‘was taking the tablets herself’, insisted helium did not rape her and is adamant helium is the ‘victim of a plot’.
Videos obtained from devices seized astatine Pelicot’s location are said to amusement Leloup having enactment with Mrs Pelicot but helium claims they are ‘fake’.
Douiri is said to person contacted Pelicot via the present closed chat country and was invited by him to ‘have sex’ with his woman successful November 2017.
A video of him was recovered connected a record connected Pelicot’s machine nether the sanction ‘Abuse’ and the record reveals helium has been joined for six years.
Douiri told investigators helium had ‘no thought if she was awake’ arsenic helium didn’t talk with her but insists helium was invited to person enactment with her by Pelicot.
He said helium had nary thought Pelicot had filmed the rape and that helium denied immoderate incorrect doing insisting that helium was ‘manipulated’.
Pelicot had admitted to the tribunal his engagement successful the decennary agelong maltreatment against his woman who helium sedated, and which took spot until 2020 astatine their location successful the colony of Mazan, fractional an hr from Avignon.
Eighteen others who are jointly charged with him are successful custody portion the remainder are connected bail, though 1 is said to person skipped the country, and of those accused 14 person admitted raping Mrs Pelicot.
Police launched their probe against Pelicot aft helium was arrested successful 2020 for upskirting women astatine a supermarket successful Carpentras adjacent his location and they aboriginal recovered 1000s of images of his woman being abused connected his laptop.
Detectives person listed a full of 92 rapes committed connected Mrs Pelicot by 83 men of whom 51 person been identified aged betwixt 26 and 73 years old.
In a abstracted case, Pelicot has been charged with raping and execution of a 23-year-old property cause successful Paris successful 1991.
The erstwhile electrician has besides admitted 1 rape successful 1999, aft DNA investigating linked him to the attack.
The proceedings continues and is expected to past until December.
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