He spoke of humanitarian actions for the "disadvantaged" in Nepal or Cambodia. The Paris prosecution has asked for a trial concerning a man already convicted of pedophile attacks and accused of having re-offended on dozens of young boys during his travels. The list of potential victims is scattered in the final indictment of the Paris public prosecutor's office dated April 3, consulted by AFP: sixteen Nepalese boys, ten Cambodians.
Among them, a boy barely 6 years old when, according to his statements to the investigators, the man masturbated him in an orphanage and gave him "an elephant-shaped necklace as well as sweets and cakes" .
Sentenced to three years in prison
Aged 50, the individual has spent his professional life working with children and adolescents. In the early 2000s, he sexually assaulted several ten-year-old boys in a summer camp. The criminal court of Thonon (Haute-Savoie) sentenced him in 2005 to three years in prison, half of which was suspended. Subject to an obligation of care, he then works in a campsite, from which he is removed after customers have complained about his behavior at the swimming pool with children.
In 2008, he went to Nepal for six months. On his return to France in 2009, he created "Philmy Voyageurs Solidaires". On the association's blog, created with the help of family members and loved ones, he touts educational or humanitarian actions in Nepal, Cambodia, Laos or India with "the most disadvantaged populations". But behind real humanitarian activities, he imposes masturbations or blowjobs on boys of ten years, sometimes less, during showers or sleeping at night among them.
NGO report
A specialized Nepalese NGO, Saathi, observes the man in question with several children in different hotels and public places in Kathmandu, then writes a report alerting the French authorities in May 2014.
In France, donors then discovered his judicial past on Facebook when an AFP dispatch from 2005 relating his conviction was published on the "Philmy" page. After new reports, French justice opened an investigation in March 2015.
"Capable of suggesting that he is the Good Samaritan"
A time on the run, he was arrested in France, then charged and imprisoned. In police custody, faced with the accusations of Nepalese and Cambodian minors, he first denies the facts: he would now control his sexual attraction for young boys thanks to his therapeutic monitoring. A few weeks later, the individual finally recognized before the examining magistrate "sexual touching" on several boys. If he had not confessed until then, it is because, he says, of the support of members of his family who thought he was cured.
"We are in the archetype of the pedophile:" Monsieur Tout-Le-Monde ", capable of gently fooling others, of suggesting that it is the Good Samaritan", notes Maître Stéphanie Chabauty, who defends Cambodian children for the Family Assistance association. “How could we have let a man already convicted of sexual violence against minors set up an association with the aim of helping minors? "Asks Mr. Joseph Breham, a Nepalese children's lawyer, for whom this case marks" the absolute failure of our judicial system for child protection ". For his colleague Maître Noémie Saidi-Cottier, who defends the Ecpat, association for the protection of children, it is a "major failure" of the French authorities, even though this man was entered in the file of perpetrators of sexual offenses or violent. The lawyer hopes for a possible trial, in addition to a conviction, compensation to help the children "to rebuild".
Pending a decision
In addition to ACPE and Ecpat, child protection associations, 22 children are civil parties. When contacted, the accused's lawyer did not respond to AFP. It is now up to the investigating judge in charge of the file to make a decision on the holding of a criminal trial.
In 2016, a Frenchman was sentenced to six years' imprisonment by the Assizes of Versailles, for having raped or sexually assaulted at least 66 boys abroad. He had visited these countries during “humanitarian” or “tourist” trips.
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