- Bernard Preynat, former priest of the diocese of Lyon, tried for sexual assaults on minors, revealed that he was himself abused in his childhood on numerous occasions.
- For his lawyer, he does not seek to clear himself of his responsibility.
- For experts, "this may have strengthened its perverse construction".
He doesn't try to find excuses, he says. On the second day of his trial for sexual assaults on minors, former Lyon priest Bernard Preynat revealed that he himself had been abused as a child. On multiple occasions.
"The first time was a sacristan from the parish in which I was an altar boy," he begins to recount at the bar. Then it was the turn of a seminarian who "caressed her thigh in the shower". And then a priest, professor at the minor seminary of Montbrison, in which the adolescent studied. "It was between the sixth and fourth grades," he adds. From there to trigger his sexual impulses towards little boys? The first psychiatric expert, called to testify Wednesday evening to enlighten the court on the personality of the accused, remained cautious.
But also at the minor seminary between the 6th and the 4th by one of his teachers, a priest from the diocese of Lyon.
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"Sexual pervert"
"Bernard Preynat never mentioned these facts during our three interviews," he says. But that may have strengthened his perverse construction. ” The man also describes a "sexual pervert". “One part of him does not access the suffering of the other. The other does not exist as a person for him. It is used to meet its drive needs, ”explains the expert. It also depicts a child who suffered from his mother's lack of tenderness. “They were parents of the time. We did not show his feelings, "he said before adding that Bernard Preynat" never reached the sexual maturity of an adult. He remained a child on that side ”.
The revelations of the former priest, however, took his lawyer, Frédéric Doyez, by surprise. "I would not say that I am surprised. This is what happens during a hearing. But if he had not talked about it, it may be out of fear that we think it is somehow to clear customs, ”he declared during a suspension of the session.
“He tries to blame others, but I am the example that we can do the opposite, says Stéphane H, one of the victims of Bernard Preynat. It is not because you have been the victim of a rapist that you become a rapist. These are false excuses. It's lousy. ”
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