Vanes, France – A retired surgeon accused the rape and sexual harassment accused of 299 people that he admitted in the court that he committed “disgusting” acts, as France’s biggest child sexual abuse case was going on on Monday. Was.
“If I am visible in front of you, because one day, when most of these people were just children, I did disgusting acts,” Joel Scornenek in a quiet voice after Joel Le Scornene, Judge Aud Buressi, Chairman of Five-Jayadh Panel Said that the hearing of the hearing was asked, whether he had to make a statement.
Wearing a black coat and glasses, Le Scornene said that he was ready to take responsibility for his tasks “and the results they may have and could be for the rest of his life.”
It was not clear how many of the 74-year-old victims had mentioned in their brief statement at Palis Day Justice in a small town in Britney, North-Western France.
Defense lawyer Maxim Tesier told reporters outside the court that Le Scornene, who is currently serving a 15 -year sentence for the misuse of four other children, has accepted the “vast majority” of the allegations, but all of them Not to
Amélie Lévêque, 42, who accused the surgeon of raping her when she was just 9 years old and under anesthesia, During the trial, she is expected to testify against her, NBC News reported that she “does not think much” about Le Scornene’s words.
“I really don’t believe that he is honest,” he said. “But I think it is good that he gave him this small speech.” We have always said that he was silent. ,
Solne Podevin, president of the Confuting Anat Association, also stated that he had accepted the responsibility, “But not necessarily for all acts.”
The tests expected for the last four months will put a spotlight on the French medical system, which allowed them to continue work despite several warning signals, in 2005 sentenced to a 2005 sentence for holding images showing child abuse Which included he downloaded from an internet site. FBI.
Some lawyers of the victims have said that once the respected local doctor should have been taken away from their medical privileges.
Instead, the father of the three, Le Scornene, moved to other public hospitals and private clinics in five areas of France, where he specialized in appendctomyse, stomach and gynecological surgery.
“If it was not for the FBI, we might not have brought it back to Joel Le Scornene,” said Francska Satta, a lawyer of many victims.
The test features hundreds of witnesses, both of them are the niece of the scarnene and a family friend, both of them now in the 40s, who say they were assaulted in the early 1980s. Under the French law, those allegations were prosecuted long ago.
A lot of evidence against Le Scornene was chronicly chronic by the surgeon in a digital diary, which he kept on the hard drive seized by the investigators in the 2017 spring, when his 6 -year -old neighbor’s mother said that he said that he told the girl’s girl Was raped. The prosecutors said that the prosecutors said across a net fence in their gardens.
After his arrest, Le Scornenene told investigators during several inquiries that he was “passionate and tyrannical” by his “pedophile fantasies” and began to record them in diaries, according to a framework of the case by the investigation judge.
Those digital files have included the names of patients and other people in the early 1980s, including members of the young family, their age, addresses and what was done with them, the court documents. Show
When investigators searched the Le Lenkon’s house in May 2017, they also found pictures of the doctor along with thousands of child pornography images, pictures of sex acts on dolls and animals, which according to a report by the investigation judge. The report states that around 5,000 videos of “violent nature” were also found, some people reflect acts of torture.
In 2020, Le Scornene was convicted of raping young neighbors and three others when they were children. He is currently serving a 15 -year jail sentence. He has to face an additional 20 -year additional year when the latest allegations are guilty – a punishment that lawyers say it will run concurrently.
The current test has an average age of the alleged 158 male and 141 female victims at 11. Majority – 256 – At that time he was under 15 years of age, when he was attacked, most of them under the influences of anesthesia or recovering from surgery, prosecutor charges.
Court officials say they struggled to find enough places to stage the trial, costing € 3 million ($ 3.14 million). Finally, he decided to broadcast the test at a former university building, walking about five minutes The center of the veins is a Breton city with courthouse, medieval ocean, a port with canals and cerboats.
The victims and their families will be watching Test on a screen in the 450 -seat auditorium.
Over 450 journalists recognized to cover the trial can see a live feed in another part of the building, away from the victims. The testimony will play in the main courthouse, wrapping in the middle of the trial before cycling with around 60 lawyers.
For many victims, the distance from their addicts was the latest blow in a process that has often ignored them, said advocate Mary Grimod, who is representing 37 of them.
“Everything is conspiring to make us invisible and keep us at some distance, as we were only second -class players in this test,” read an open letter grimod issued by our customers.
But Leveak, who learned about her alleged rape from investigators, said she prefers to stay away from the doctor.
“I feel preserved.” He said.
