The former surgeon recognizes sexual assault for the first time his granddaughter-Liberation

At Fourth day of his trial For rapes and sexual assaults on 299 patientsex-Usurgian Joël Le Scouarnec confessed this Friday, February 28, having committed « Sexual abuse » On his granddaughter, in front of his eldest son. The latter had just deplored the reigning silence in the family: he had come to testify Before the Criminal Court of Morbihan (Vannes) To shed light on the personality of the accused and the family context, marked by multiple incests and sexual assaults, or not by his father.

« I recognize acts of sexual abuse on my granddaughter », said the 74 -year -old man. After these revelations, the witness and his partner, mother of the child, were taken care of by psychologists. The victim, aged 12, being still minor, the acts are « Non-scripts »said the Advocate General.

The elder, 44, was the last of the three sons of the accused to be heard by the Court. Like his brothers, he evokes a happy childhood and a father very taken by his medical activity but with whom he has a « Strong link and a form of admiration ». With hindsight, « Of course there were things that were not said, we were hidden a lot »said the forties « angry ».

He remembers having learned accidentally, « A few months » Only before his father's arrest in 2017 for the rape of a six -year -old neighbor, which the search led in 2004 at the surgeon's home concerned child pornographic files which he had downloaded to his computer. And not hacked cinema films as he always believed.

His mother, Marie-France, had never told her about it. Several writings by Joël Le Scouarnec, however, suggest that she had long been aware of the pedocriminal attractions of her ex-husband. Wednesday, Marie-France Le Scouarnec had shocked the victims By saying not having seen anything or known. When he learns that his father has downloaded pedocriminal content, the eldest son has a young daughter. « My partner wanted my mother a lot to have warned her to protect herself and protect her, » he said at the helm. He himself said he had no contact with his mother since 2017 and his father's crimes.

The son sinks into depression, then alcoholism for two years after the conviction in 2020, in Saintes (Charente-Maritime), from his father to 15 years' imprisonment for sexual violence committed on four children, including his two nieces. At the trial of Saintes, the Advocate General had read him an extract from the notebooks where the accused scrupulously notes the names of his victims and what he inflicts them: this extract concerns his daughter, then about two years old, before which Joël Le Scouarnec would have exhibited.

« It created a great trauma in my house and a lot of anger »he launches then, saying that he did not want to file a complaint at the moment « So as not to exhibit » His daughter. Asked about this reaction on Friday, he seems to be changing his mind. « Do you think the silence in the face of these facts would be protective? »asks him the Advocate General, Stéphane Kellenberger. « No, in no way. But it requires a lot of courage ”. « When you don't denounce anyone, things continue. »