A Moroccan migrant has been sentenced to 15 years in prison for two cases dating to 2020, when he burst into the room of a 62-year-old woman and raped her, and then months later, reportedly beat another woman, 86, in a brutal attack.
The suspect, Ramzan R., is an illiterate Moroccan migrant who arrived illegally in France in December 2019 after wandering through Turkey, Slovakia, and Poland. A court determined that on April 13, 2020, he broke into the 62-year-old woman’s house at 2 a.m. in the city of Bondy and subsequently assaulted her, along with an accomplice. However, the ordeal was not over. Ramzan R. then returned at 7:00 a.m. and raped the woman.
Then, eight months later, the man broke into the house of an 86-year-old woman and brutally attacked her in the same city.
The woman, who has since died, was represented by a lawyer in court, Me. Anne Rossi, who said: “He smashed her skull on the wall,” and added that the woman “had bruises all over her body.”
A neighbor who heard screams intervened, and when he entered the house, he saw Ramzan R. quickly pulling up his pants and getting up from the victim.
Investigators believe that the 86-year-old victim was raped, but hospital staff did not perform an examination to gather evidence, saying that the woman was too old. The woman died three years later, in 2023.
“Everyone is convinced that she was raped,” said Me. Anne Rossi during the man’s trial. Rossi said that her death three years later was due in part to the rape she experienced that night.
“A part of her had died that night. Rape is like a little death,” said the woman’s lawyer.
The man, who cried at the end of his three-day trial in Seine-Saint-Denis, looked reportedly “absent” during the proceedings, according to French newspaper Le Parisien.
Ramzan R. spoke during the trial, saying he “is not aware if he had attacked her.”
“I am disgusted with myself, I would like to cut off my head,” he added.