Stock Photo - Illustration picture shows the judgment session in the trial of a man accused of raping a student on the Plaine campus in Ixelles in December 2022, in Brussels criminal court, Wednesday 29 November 2023. The accused, Yannick F., a 25-year-old man, is on trial for raping a 21-year-old student on 28 December 2022 on a campus of the Universite Libre de Bruxelles (ULB) in Ixelles. The prosecutor has requested a sentence of 12 years' imprisonment, as well as five years' release from the Tribunal de l'application des peines (TAP). The parents will be speaking to the press after the hearing. BELGA PHOTO NICOLAS MAETERLINCK.