The 27-year-old man, tried until Friday, for the kidnapping of a child in Rennes, and sexual assault on a minor, has already been sentenced twice. In 2014, for child abduction. In 2016, following sexual assault on a 9-year-old child.

On the video surveillance images of the Bordeaux train station, the man and the child appear the face concealed by a folded hood. They changed clothes. The alleged abductor, 24, no longer wears his jacket. The 4 year old boy is dressed in a new tracksuit.

"The hood was to hide. I wanted to hide it from others, to keep it with me, " confesses the accused, Wednesday night, without explaining his motives. "It was not to be done. It was not a child that belongs to me. "

It is thanks to the device Alert abduction that they were found in station of Libourne, in the TGV Paris-Bordeaux, the day after the kidnapping of the child in Rennes, on August 15, 2015.

"Relieve your conscience"

Responding to the police officers' questions while in police custody, the man admitted to the sexual assault once, during his four hearings. "Why does the police report mention" Accused, he ended up recognizing a sexual assault "? , asks her lawyer at the hearing, Me Delphine Caro. The child does not talk about sexual abuse. The doctor does not notice anything on examination. "

A "feeling" , reports the investigator. "The colleagues tell him that if he needs to relieve his conscience, it is now. "

Arrested in June 2015

During his trial, which must last until Friday, the accused must answer for the crime of sexual abuse, in addition to the crime of "kidnapping", "detention" or "kidnapping". He denies, however, at the opening of his trial, the touching.

Before the events of August 2015, this man chaotic path was already sentenced, in September 2014, to the sentence of six months of imprisonment suspended, for "removal of child". It was in December 2013. He had left the home of the woman who hosted him, in Reunion, with the child of this lady, 7 years old. He had called the social Samu for accommodation, portraying himself as the boy's father.

Later, on January 5, 2016, he will be sentenced for sexual assault to the detriment of a 9-year-old boy at his father's home in Rennes. He was arrested on 11 June 2015. The Criminal Court sentenced him to twelve months, including six months with a suspended sentence of two years.