Today, the prosecutor of the Paris Criminal Court requested the imposition of a 19-year prison sentence against Salim Berada, known to the press by the nickname “the rapist of Tinder’, who is accused of raping or sexually assaulting 17 women between 2014-2016.

This is a very “serious” sentence, with the maximum foreseen at 20 years, for the one who “destroyed 17 lives”, pointed out the public prosecutor Philippe Courier.

This sentence is justified, according to him, by the number of victims that this photographer, aged 38 today, lured into his home through dating websites and the “dangerousness’ of this ‘self-centered unsatisfied hunter”, who disputed all the facts.

Before the plaintiffs who came to testify with the “their wounds still open“, Salim Berada remained “rigid“, “having entrenched himself in the concrete shelter of his denial,” the attorney general complained.

The defendant, who offered photography sessions in his studio, which was located in his home, argued that all of these relationships were consensual.

The plaintiffs, most of whom were in their 20s at the time, have been in court every day to testify since the trial began on Monday.

They were present in the courtroom today, while the prosecutor revisited the story of each to describe the almost identical course of action of the accused, who came from Morocco to France at the age of 20.

“It is dangerouss”, because “he has no capacity for introspection“, added the prosecutor, recalling that he has been prosecuted in another case for similar events. “How can we hope he will change his behavior… He admits nothing».

The verdict is expected Friday night.