(24 Feb 2025)
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Vannes, France – 24 February 2025
1. People holding placards in front of the tribunal
2. Close of placard reading (French): “In France, every year, 160,000 children are victims of sexual violence. We believe you”
3. Various of people and placards in front of tribunal
STORYLINE:
A former surgeon is set to stand trial in France on Monday for the alleged rape or sexual abuse of 299 victims, most of them children who were his patients, in what investigators and his own notebooks describe as a pattern of violence spanning over three decades.
Joël Le Scouarnec, now 74, will face hundreds of victims during a four-month trial in Vannes, Brittany.
He faces up to 20 years in prison if convicted, on top of 15 years he has been serving after being found guilty in 2020 of rape and sexual assault of children.
He does not deny the allegations, though he says he does not remember everything.
Some survivors have no memory of the assaults, having been unconscious at the time.
Some activists gathered in front of the tribunal on Monday, hoping the trial empowers other victims and helps expose other abusers long protected by societal taboos.
That was highlighted recently during the trial that made Gisèle Pélicot, who was drugged and raped by her now ex-husband and dozens of others, France’s symbol of the fight against sexual violence.
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