Taha O.’s lawyer delivers disturbing testimony about Philippine’s murderer

Moroccan Taha O., 22, is accused of murdering Philippinethe student found dead in the Bois de Boulogne. Me Laura Beauvais, criminal lawyer at the Paris bar, who defended him during his first rape case, made disturbing revelations about the life and psychological profile of the young man.

Sentenced in March 2022 by the Pontoise juvenile court to seven years in prison for the rape of a 22-year-old student in the Taverny woods (Val-d’Oise) in August 2019, Taha O. was released from prison on June 20, 2024 after five years of detention, then placed in a detention center, pending his deportation to Morocco. But he will finally be released on September 3. Two weeks later, he was arrested in Switzerland as a suspect in the rape and murder of Philippine, a student whose body was found in the Bois de Boulogne (Paris).