“She’s the one being condemned again”: 8 years after her rapist’s conviction, a young woman learns that he’s going to come and live near her.

What is the “confusion of sentences”, from which Roland Blaudry benefited?
A “meager consolation” for Karine Jambu, who learned in November 2025 that her attacker had requested release from prison after serving not 8, but 21 years. Roland Blaudry benefited from the principle of “merging sentences .” Thus, when he was sentenced in 2018 to 30 years’ imprisonment, with a 20-year minimum term, the septuagenarian had already been incarcerated for 13 years after being sentenced in 2007 to 18 years’ imprisonment for raping his daughter. The “merging of sentences” then applies : instead of serving two consecutive sentences, the longer one absorbs the shorter one .

Roland Blaudry has therefore filed a request for release after serving his mandatory minimum sentence. ” It’s her who’s being condemned again. It’s as if they’re putting the victim back in prison , ” lamented Laurence Brunet-Jambu, Karine’s aunt and main supporter, speaking to 20 Minutes . For her, her niece’s attacker is “a repeat rapist who has already had several victims” and who “was supposed to be receiving treatment” when he raped Karine. ” He never wrote anything, never asked for forgiveness. It’s disgusting , ” she concluded.