Trial of the Sambre rapist: Dino Scala unable to explain his motive

They say it in all tones, each in their own way. The cohort of their sufferings, even twenty-five years later. Their shattered lives, and, by extension, those of their husbands and children. Those years they won’t make up for. Or maybe if… If Dino Scala finally accepts to recognize the facts, he who readily admits for some, but continues to deny, without apparent reason or coherence, some of the 56 rapes and sexual assaults that justice attributes to him and for which he has been on trial in Douai (North) since June 10. “It does not look like me”, is satisfied most of the time to answer the accused, pointing to a microdetail by way of explanation, a thin screen for his guilt.