Trial of the “rapist of the Sambre”: “I was in a hunting instinct”, declares the accused

It is first of all a cloud of words, dates, places. An enumeration of more than twenty minutes, necessary to resume the 56 rapes, sexual assaults and attempts with which the accused is accused. A litany of violence running over thirty years, from 1988 to 2018, during which the victims were gagged, shackled, strangled, beaten, silenced at knifepoint; outraged in a tunnel, pastures, fields, thickets, a schoolyard, abandoned houses or at their own home…