The first day of Jordy Goukara’s trial began yesterday in Paris, with the Central African migrant already confessing to the brutal rape of two women, Mathilde and Claire Geronimi, at knife point. The high-profile case is being widely reported across France and has become a political flashpoint over the issue of mass immigraiton and crime. The two rapes, which happened 45 minutes apart in Nov. 11, 2023, occured right in the middle of the afternoon in an upscale part of Paris.
Geronimi herself has gone public with her horrifying rape, appearing on national news outlets and founding an association for women who have suffered the same experience.
The case is shocking in nearly every day. The African, Goukara, already had 12 criminal convictions, including for sexual assaults, and had three deportation orders, none of which were executed.
The defendant, Goukara, has already confessed to the crime in the first day of court, saying that he has “uncontrollable sexual urges” and could not help himself from raping the women. He also stated that he masturbates 10 times a day.
Both victims stood side by side in the court, touching hands and shoulders at difficult moments.
It was the first time they faced the man since 2023, when they were savagely assaulted in the hallways of their buildings in the upscale neighborhoods of the 17th and 8th arrondissements of Paris.
The 27-year-old African, armed with a knife, forced them to perform fellatio on him and threatened to kill them if they screamed or struggled. He also penetrated his second victim, Geronimi. The two rapes happened right after another, between 3:52 p.m. and 5:05 p.m., with Geronimi raped just a 15-minute walk from the first rape.
“So here are these two women, gathered in the criminal court until Friday. Mathilde (her name has never been revealed), the first victim, was raped for eight minutes. She was 19 at the time. She is a very beautiful, slender young woman with a porcelain complexion. She looks like a little dancer from a music box. To her right stands Claire Geronimi, raped for 20 long minutes. She was 26 years old. Because she denounced the situation of Jordy Goukara, an irregular Central African who was subject to three OQTFs (obligations to leave French territory) in 2020, 2021, and 2023, and his criminal past,” writes legal media outlet Actu Juridique.
Geronimi was ostracized by feminists, according to the victim’s own statements. Worse! By speaking out in so-called “conservative” media and joining Éric Ciotti’s UDR, she alienated a section of public opinion, which led to the left making her “invisible.
As Le Parisien notes in a profile of the young woman, her face was “playing in a loop on television sets, but especially on channels with lines from the most conservative editorial offices, notably from the Bolloré group,” as the debate on an Immigration bill was raging in parliament.
However, she says that the left and right have exploited her story at times.
“The problem is that both the left and the right used my story to hit each other, and I was in between,” she told the media. However, since then, she has teamed up with the right, specifically because she said that was the only political option to fix the issue.
“But very quickly, I understood that social commitment was not enough. There also needed to be political commitment. This is why I joined Éric Ciotti’s UDR. With MP Christelle D’Intorni, we are bringing a bill so that the State can be condemned when a victim is attacked by an individual under OQTF,” she explains. She is currently the vice-president of Éric Ciotti’s UDR movement, which is allied with Marine Le Pen’s right-wing National Rally.
In the two years since the attack, Geronimi has become a prominent voice denouncing the dysfunctions related to deportation orders (OQTFs). Her current speech is extremely critical of the state, referencing not only her own case but also other high-profile incidents. “What I suffered was a double punishment. Attacked the first time by a criminal, and a second time by a State which failed in its duty. This person should not have been in this territory. And I am not an isolated case: The stories of Philippine and Lola showed the same bankruptcy,” she stated in an interview with French news outlet JDD this week.
As the trial begins, her words have become more intimate, as she shared on X: “Two years have passed and I have come a long way — and despite this I can’t help but ask: why me? Why did I survive?”
“Throughout the entire duration of the trial, I will not speak to the media. I appeal to your respect for my loved ones and those of Mathilde: We need this time for rebuilding, so that our story can finally be heard and recognized by the justice system,” she wrote in another post.
Geronimi has been making the rounds in French media. Speaking to Le Figaro, she addressed what her thoughts had been right before meeting her attacker for the first time during the trial.
“The state of mind, I would say that I am very stressed, very stressed about seeing my attacker again. And at the same time, I actually tell myself that it’s the culmination of something. A victim cannot rebuild their life until there has been justice. Two years is quite fast. On average, it’s between two and five years since the beginning. It’s the fact that there are also other victims who have not been able to be heard.
That’s really what gives me this strength. It was quite an intense moment, but at the same time I was also eager to be able to show him that he had lost and that I was the one who had won the most in this story because he was the one behind bars and that he didn’t destroy me. My attack took place on November 11th, 2023 in the heart of the Eighth Arrondissement in the middle of the afternoon when I had gone shopping and was returning home. I didn’t look when I entered my code for my front door, and a man pushed open this door, which is one of the large Parisian carriage doors, followed me into my entrance hall and tackled me to the ground.
He also threatened to kill me with a weapon. It was a blade. At first, I tried to struggle, but unfortunately, I had the choice between dying or being raped. At first, I thought he was just going to steal my bag and leave. But in the end, I quickly realized that he had told me that he was going to rape me and then kill me.
Matildhe too was threatened with the weapon, this famous knife. And fortunately, some neighbors also arrived and made him flee, except that in fact, the attacker was still “hungry,” as he said himself, and so he attacked another victim. So that was me. There you have it. Investigations have shown that the suspect had a serious criminal record. He is also alleged to have raped and sexually assaulted two young girls during his childhood. What does that make you think? He has already been in prison for theft.”
She continued that just three months before the attack, Goukara was in prison, and then let out to attack again.
The young victim said that there are many concrete examples of other women going through the same thing, with Geronimi directly referencing the case of Philippine Le Noir de Carlan, who was murdered almost exactly a year ago by a Moroccan migrant convicted of sexual offenses.
“I can give you lots of concrete examples of victims that we support with the association that I created, the Éclats de Femme Association. It’s always the same pattern,” said Geronimi. “They are always repeat offenders and at the same time. In fact, it starts all over again. We can also take the example of the Philippines. These are problems from a legal perspective that are unfortunately not insignificant. My attacker is a man who is now 27 years old. He arrived in France when he was 16 and was in a foster family where there had already been complaints of sexual assault on a minor within his foster family. This was not taken into account. Even though the social worker had clearly stated it, they say that there is a real failure on the part of the justice system.”
She also pointed to the man’s many deportation orders, saying, “Beyond that, my attacker, who was subject to three deportation orders, will he be sent back to his country or not after the sentence he served in France? Unfortunately, reoffending is also very likely. I expect the justice system to be exemplary in terms of the sentence my attacker may receive.”
Beyond the actual attack, she also noted how difficult her life has become on a personal and professional level since the attack.
“So of course it takes time. I was working. I was doing financial consulting. I was living in my ideal world, living in a very nice neighborhood. I was graduating from a top business school. You quickly realize that spending all day on Excel spreadsheets is not the same thing at all and is pointless. So that’s why I started this association and I threw myself 100% into the association that I created, the Éclats de Femme association , because I had received many testimonies from other victims, including other victims who had been assaulted in the street, stories that were somewhat similar — similar to mine.
After a victim is attacked, there is both self-loathing and self-hatred. Each victim, let’s say, reacts differently. They may sink into a deep depression or they may not cope with it for 20 years or it may resurface later. So I think I immediately took this personal fight as a more social fight, let’s say. Having testified and so on, and having heard many testimonies from other victims a bit like me. I also stopped working because inevitably, following an assault, there is a potential risk that you could suffer from burnout. There is also a potential risk that you could no longer be with your partner.
Today, it is still very, very complicated to be able to trust someone, a man, simply to have intimacy.”
She says her foundation, which has only been in existence for a year, has already helped 100 women. She laments how little support there is for victims, which she hopes to remedy through her work.
“With the association, we have established the average cost of a victim. It’s more than €35,000 between filing the complaint and the trial. In addition to legal and psychological costs. These are things that, I don’t think, should be paid by a victim.”
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