The impassive mask that characterizes Joël Le Scouarnec since the start of his trial on February 24 has cracked. For the first time, the former pedocriminal surgeon, tried for sexual violence on 299 patients by the Morbihan criminal court, revealed his emotion on Wednesday, March 5, evoking his victims.
The day before, the 74 -year -old accused answered the questions of President Aude Buresi for several hours, in particular on his notebooks where he detailed the sexual violence inflicted on his victims and his pedophilia “Who invaded everything”.
“I am addressing the victims today and alone. If there is only one to whom my depositions can allow us to resume the path of normal life, it would be extraordinary for me ”he said, the voice knotted.
Do you understand that this trial can be restoring for them? requests a lawyer. “I wish them”says Joël Le Scouarnec, before repressing a sob. “I understood …” You were a rapist “: I could not recognize myself with this term”said the doctor, before letting go of his microphone and sagging in his box. “I don’t want lies anymore, I don’t want to hide anything anymore”said the accused, claiming his “Sincerity”.
“A man under hypercontrol”
Sincerity questioned by me Francesca Satta, lawyer of several complainants, seated opposite Joël Le Scouarnec. “I find it hard to believe in the credibility of his tears, to this accused who breaks down but who immediately becomes a man under hypercontrol”She told the France-Presse agency.
In files seized during a search in 2017, Joël Le Scouarnec wrote in extenso the story of rape, sexual assault and touching on children around him and his patients, often minor, some 300 victims whose average age is 11 years. These “Carnets”According to the name given by the Court to files, detail many vaginal and rectal digital rapes.
If Joël Le Scouarnec said he was ready to recognize himself guilty of part of them, he considered it again on Wednesday that some were acts “Purely medical” And not rapes, despite the story he made in his notebooks. “If I performed a medical procedure, when I came back to my house, I thought about it but in another form, in a sexual connotation”explains the former surgeon. He “Transpose” then the medical gesture in writing and added “Fantasies”he assured.
What will the voice of a victim who remembers rape when it is told that it is a medical act? Cornered by a lawyer, the doctor refused to “Pronounce” and indicated that he “Listen carefully to the victim’s word”.
Double face
Only a dozen 299 victims were present in the courtroom. One of them, Amélie Lévêque, “Wish to believe” The sincere accused, on the eve of the beginning of the victims’ hearings – Thursday at 1 p.m.
In the evening, the president questioned it of four victims of prescribed facts. “I don’t remember any of these people”the accused replied immediately. “It’s ignoble, I ask for forgiveness”he added, with regard to one of the victims, ensuring “Displore(r) this notion of prescription ”. Before qualifying: “I do not dispute” the facts, but “I don’t know precisely what I could commit as act”Although they are described in his notebooks.
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Tuesday, he said: “The only person who can give you explanations is me. »» Explanations, the court had had it concerning its sexuality, marked by a pedophilia which has “All invaded”.
He also claimed his double face. On the battery side, a “Ideal father”, According to his ex-wife, and “Good surgeon”, According to his colleagues. Face side, “A pervert without any mood”Who detailed at court how he targeted a child left alone in his hospital room to commit sexual violence over him.
In the recording of one of her recent telephone conversations with her ex-wife Marie-France, paid to the file, Mr. Le Scouarnec said he understood that“A child was not only an object of sexual desire”. “Thirty years of pedophilia, it leaves an imprint”he blown at the court.
Already sentenced to fifteen years in prison, notably for the rape of his 6 -year -old neighbor, he now faces twenty years’ imprisonment.
