The « rapist of the Sambre » again heard by the justice – Liberation
Dino Scala, nicknamed The « rapist of the Sambre », already sentenced to twenty years in prison, must be heard this Thursday, May 15 by the courts concerning About fifteen additional caseslearned AFP on Wednesday with her lawyer on Wednesday, confirming RTL information.
Me Margaux Mathieu had claimed in July 2024 that it be understood by justice concerning a judicial information opened in March 2023, in which Dino Scala « It keeps being quoted in the media as the main suspect ».
This judicial information from the Valenciennes prosecution (North) « Is wrongly called the new Scala affair », again assured Mathieu on Wednesday. « If Dino Scala has committed very serious assaults, which he has recognized and for which he was condemned, it is not acceptable that it is imputed to him by others », she points out. She says he fears « Judicial errors that would only benefit the real attackers of these 16 victims, who would never be worried. »
This judicial information was opened in March 2023 for a series of rapes, attempted rape and sexual assault on 14 victims, between 1988 and 2009. Justice also said in April 2024 to study two new reports by two women saying that she had been attacked in 1987.
Dino Scala, 64, was sentenced in July 2022 to the Assises du Nord to twenty years in criminal imprisonment, with a two -thirds security period, for A series of 54 rapesattempts at rape and sexual assault or attempted sexual assault. Prosecuted for A total of 56 factshe recognized 40 and had challenged 16.
These facts were committed between 1988 and 2018 Near his home, around the Sambre River, in the north of France, but also in Belgium. During the hearing, he had laconically presented his « Excuse to the victims ».
His trial had not made it possible to fully lift the mystery around this well -inserted, married worker, father, coach of a football club but with the personality characterized according to a psychiatrist by a « abyss » Between social side and hidden face.
