French serial rapist Dino Scala has been sentenced to 20 years in prison. According to the judge it is established that he raped, tried to rape or assaulted at least 54 women between 1988 and 2018. His victims were 13 to 48 years old. According to the judge, it is not certain that Scala was the perpetrator for two rapes of which he was accused.
One of the women attacked by Scala, Mélanie, stood in court crying with joy after the verdict. “I’m crying just because I heard he was found guilty,” she said. “After so many years of waiting. Finally. That’s the win for me. Only then did I hear what punishment he will receive.”
Another victim, Clara, was just disappointed. “He gets twenty years, but we victims feel the consequences for life.” One of the victims’ lawyers was also dissatisfied. “Twenty years in prison is very little for so many destroyed lives. He’s attacked women longer than he’s now going to jail.”
Same way of working
The 61-year-old Scala – married, father and grandfather – lived in northern France, near the Belgian border. He always proceeded in exactly the same way. He always attacked women in the street early in the morning before going to work. Scala always wore face coverings and approached his victims from behind so they never saw his face. Scala finally ran into the light in 2018 after his car was spotted with surveillance cameras in a Belgian town.
In court, he said for the first time that he wanted to apologize to his victims. “I have done a lot of harm. When I attacked the women I was not aware of the harm I was causing.” Scala said after a possible release that he would not repeat himself and said he was willing to “chemical castration”.
In a separate procedure, the French judge has ruled that the 54 women he attacked will receive compensation for a total of 459,000 euros. It is not yet known whether Scala will appeal the verdict.
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