It is the result of an eight month long investigation. As Europe 1 revealed this Friday morning, a 55-year-old Dijon magistrate was indicted in Besançon for having, on a libertine dating forum, repeatedly offered to strangers to have sex with his wife and include their 12-year-old daughter. At a press conference, the Besançon prosecutor, Étienne Manteaux, explained on Friday how the police had proceeded to conduct the investigation.
Police officer under pseudonym charged with entering into "link with the suspect"
To achieve their ends, the police opted for infiltration through an "pseudonym investigation, when a police officer can act under a false name," said the prosecutor. In concrete terms, an official was instructed to "get in touch with the suspect" by going to the website on which the announcements were posted to confirm or deny the facts of which he was suspected. "It was in this context that there were arrests last week."
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A strategy that has paid off, since once confused, the magistrate in his 50s immediately confessed, assuring nevertheless that these were only "fantasies" and that he would never have left such acts to come true. Placed in police custody, he was indicted for "offering, even without effect, to a person to commit rape, sexual assault or corruption of a minor against a minor".
7 years in prison
Former judge of the children fifteen years ago, the suspect was left free under judicial control with in particular an obligation of care and the prohibition to exercise a professional activity in contact with minors, pending his future trial in correctional . He theoretically incurs a maximum penalty of 7 years in prison and a fine of 100,000 euros. The case was also the subject of an internal report to the Ministry of Justice, which will probably lead to disciplinary proceedings.