Nadia El Bouroumi - who has a very interesting backstory of forced marriage, domestic abuse, and working her way through law studies by being a hairdresser - is a highly controversial character. She sees her social media 'diary' as separate from her courtroom activities.
She obviously likes to shock - she reminds me a little bit [in style not politics] of Donal Trump - you say the most outrageous things and then double down on them when challenged and try to make your critics look 'elitist' or 'woke' - I don't know if there is a French word for woke yet, but El Bouroumi used the idea of ordinary decent hardworking local provincial men who had been manipulated by the monster Dominque Pelicot and were now being persecuted by the woke Parisian elites..
Émile-Henri Biscarrat - he was the laywer I referred to 'in real time' on another thread when he spoke immediately after the sentencing and appeared to defend the absence of intent as a defence to rape in French law. At the time I thought that was surprising, as he was coming out of a courtroom where that defence hadn't worked for any of the defendants. It felt inappropriate in that moment, and still does.
Guillaume De Palma - he was the one who said 'Il y a viol et viol' - 'There's rape, and there's rape'.
He seems less combative than Biscarrat, and has stated that he was making that point not to the public, but to the judges, purely on the basis of current legal definitions, in defence of his clients - that there is what the public and the media consider rape, and there is what the law considers rape.
Who was the one who taunted GP's supporters outside the court, Lalgarh? I missed that.
All of the defence barristers had a job to do, and it wouldn't have been a fair trial if they hadn't done their absolute best to defend their clients.
Nadia El Bouroumi is now saying that she sympathised with Gisèle Pelicot and was just doing her job [she used the very 'street' slang word 'taff' for work - she would, wouldn't she🙄]
None of that would make any of them them 'the rapist's sweetheart', but I think their words and behaviour outside the courtroom are fair game for criticism.
edited for typos - the ones I spotted anyway!