Published on: 04/22/2022 – 15:49Modified on: 04/22/2022 – 15:58 Sentenced at first instance to seven years in prison for the gang rape in 2014 of a Canadian tourist at the headquarters of the Parisian PJ , the two ex-police officers were acquitted on Friday by the Assize Court of Val-de-Marne. It is a rare judicial twist in an extraordinary case: the two former police officers who were tried on appeal for the gang rape in 2014 of a Canadian tourist at the headquarters of the Parisian judicial police (PJ), 36 quai des Orfèvres, were acquitted on Friday April 22 by the Val-de-Marne Assize Court. Three years after their conviction at first instance in Paris to seven years in prison, Antoine Quirin, 43, and Nicolas Redouane, 52, were declared innocent of the rape of Emily Spanton, 42, and emerged free from the Créteil courthouse where they had been on trial for three weeks. The news was greeted with applause from the relatives of the two defendants, while the plaintiff left the court in tears. On Wednesday, the public prosecutor had requested a seven-year prison sentence against these two former agents of the prestigious BRI (Research and Intervention Brigade) who had not ceased to proclaim their innocence since the start of the case. The complainant’s testimony called into question On the evening of April 22, 2014, Emily Spanton, a Canadian tourist, had met several BRI police officers in an Irish pub located opposite the famous 36, quai des Orfèvres. he atmosphere was flirtatious, the agents had offered a visit to their premises to Mrs. Spanton, very alcoholic that evening. She came out of it in a state of shock, denouncing a rape in a meeting. “When they were at the pub, they did not want to rape Emily Spanton,” said Advocate General Christophe Auger during his indictment. “They thought they could have consensual sex with her. But she doesn’t want to. So we serve her a glass of whiskey to force her consent. And what happens is what happens.” Thursday, during their pleadings, defense lawyers had sought acquittal for their clients, questioning Emily Spanton’s “credibility” and pointing to “evolutionary” statements and “lies” on her part. With AFP