2023-11-29 11:24:00
The 54th chamber of the Brussels Criminal Court has just sentenced Yannick F. (25 years old) to 12 years in prison and 5 years of provision to the Sentencing Enforcement Court (TAP) for the rape of a student on evening of December 28, 2022 on the ULB campus, in Brussels. The man of Ivorian nationality, of no fixed address, gets up. He would like to say something about the victim who did not mention a weapon at the time of the incident – which, criminally, could have cost him even more. “I would like to thank the complainant for not lying that much.”
“Marked traits of psychopathy”
Words of incredible cynicism which reflect the terrifying personality of the man who was the only suspect in the rape of Luna (not her real name), 21 years old at the time of the attack. The experts, a psychiatrist and psychologist, had detected “marked psychopathic traits” in the defendant, with unchanneled sexual needs. Yannick F. expressed a feeling of injustice in relation to the facts and little interest in the victim. At the time of the pronouncement, Wednesday morning, in the presence of the young girl’s parents, it is again about him that he speaks…
ULB campus rapist gets 12 years in prison and 5 years of probation
The court therefore followed to the letter the indictment of the prosecutor who had requested 12 years in prison and “minimum” 5 years of release at the end of her sentence. A protection measure requested due to the dangerousness of the attacker, who presents a high risk of recidivism.
Drawn to a dark corner of the Plain
The victim, a first-year bioengineering student at the Free University of Brussels (ULB), took an unlit path on the La Plaine campus that evening while returning from a climbing course. She was pulled into a dark corner, grabbed from behind by her attacker who pulled down her pants before throwing her to the ground. He placed a palm on her nose and mouth, preventing her from breathing, before strangling her with both hands. Terrified, the young girl resigned herself to accepting the rape, which he imposed on her anally, while holding her head on the ground. Yannick F. then retrieved one of his sneakers by the light of his lighter. He then left, taking her cell phone. So that she couldn’t notify the police.
”I find it a bit light…”
Identified thanks to the surveillance cameras of the Delta metro station, near the entrance to the ULB, Yannick F. was arrested three days later. He says he has nothing to do with the facts. He was in possession of Luna’s cell phone SD card. In September 2023, confronted with the results of tests which confirmed the presence of his DNA on the victim’s stockings, he spoke of consensual sexual relations. At the public hearing on October 25, he confirmed, adding: “I find it a little light to be prosecuted on the basis of the unilateral declarations of the complainant.”
Rape on the ULB campus: the profile of the attacker sends chills down your spine
The judgment handed down on Wednesday asserts that the victim made clear, precise and detailed statements, which were largely corroborated by objective elements (telephony, images from surveillance cameras, etc.), unlike the fluctuating versions of the defendant who initially denied it outright, before agreeing that he was present on campus and then mentioning consensual vaginal sex.
A version that doesn’t hold up
The judgment sweeps aside the “truth” of Yannick F. Claiming that he would have succeeded in persuading a young girl, without any experience of sexual relations, who was returning home in the evening, to agree to have intimate relations in public, It doesn’t hold water.
Especially since the file shows that the man had been roaming the campus for several years. In 2021, two students had already filed a complaint against him for exhibitionism.
Rape and sexual assault primarily affect women between 18 and 25 years old
The sanction takes into account the seriousness of the facts, the number of victims, the recurring and increasing violence of the defendant, his disturbing personality and the total lack of awareness of his actions. The judgment also evokes “the incredible cynicism” of the man who denies or minimizes his actions.
He had returned to the scene
Yannick F. has a long criminal record. He was released from prison at the end of September 2022, after a 30-month conviction for intentional assault and battery causing death without intention. The events occurred during a fight between homeless people on the Delta hospital construction site in Auderghem, a few steps from the Plaine campus. Yannick F. was provisionally released after the judgment, even though he had served half of his sentence in preventive detention. By October, he returned to the scene…
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