TESTIMONIAL EUROPE 1
It could be the biggest case of pedophilia ever brought to light in France. Joël Le Scouarnec, a gastric surgeon at Jonzac Hospital, a small town in Charente-Maritime, was arrested on 24 August 2019 for sexual assault. There could be up to 246 potential victims, recorded in the intimate diaries of the alleged pedophile. At the microphone of Europe 1, Tuesday, one of his victims agreed to testify.
Marie (first name) is a Breton woman of 33 years old, mother of two children. A month ago, she was visited by two gendarmes who asked her if she had had surgery for appendicitis at the Vannes clinic at the age of 10. This is how she learned that she was one of the victims of Joel Le Scouarnec. Marie was raped in her room the day after surgery during the postoperative visit.
In his notebooks, "he describes everything he did to me and enjoyment when he writes"
She did not learn it until 23 years later, when she read one of the doctor's notebooks about what he had done to her. "He describes me totally naked, he describes everything he did to me and the enjoyment he has when he writes, he takes pleasure," says the young woman. "It makes me sick, it's like a pornographic book, except we talk about children, innocent people, unconscious of sex life."
At the time, Marie had not asked herself a question about what could look like a medical gesture. However, her intimate life had been deeply marked by this episode, without her being able to explain the cause until now. "It robbed me of my life as a woman: today I do not have a normal life," she says. "You can not touch me." Since then, Marie is followed by a psychologist. "The other day, I saw his face and the look he gave me before raping me," she recalls. "A chilling look, which makes you cold in the back."
"We must lock him up, he must not go out, he must hurt"
Today she feels a deep disgust and a lot of anger. "It's disgusting, when we think about it, we just want to throw up," she says. "We feel dirty, we feel humiliated, we are even ashamed of what happened to us." It is to help other victims to come out of the silence that it testifies. "We have to lock him up, he must not get out, he must hurt, it must stop," she slices. "He's a big manipulator, he knew very well what he was doing." Joel Le Scouarnec will be tried for a first case at the beginning of the year 2020.