This Tuesday, the criminal court of Boulogne-sur-Mer sentenced Franck Lavier, one of those acquitted from Outreau, to a suspended prison sentence for sexual assault on his daughter, when she was a minor.
Finding him guilty of touching his daughter’s breasts, the court sentenced him to six months’ imprisonment with a simple suspended sentence, a decision in accordance with the requisitions during the trial on September 22, indicated the prosecution. The sentence handed down was accompanied by registration in the Fijais (automated judicial file for perpetrators of sexual or violent offenses).
The victim returns to her accusations at the hearing
This was the only fact retained by the prosecution, because the young woman had withdrawn most of her accusations made in 2016. A dramatic turn of events in full court, seven years after declaring herself the victim of sexual assault by his father. During the trial, she claimed to have lied for so long out of fear of “the consequences for making false statements”. Concerning the touching of the breasts, the young woman, a 24-year-old mother of four children, considered at the trial that it was “a game, by the way, ‘pouet pouet'”, but which made me uncomfortable.
“I have nothing to reproach myself for,” Franck Lavier, 45, told the audience before his daughter’s retractions. Her lawyer, Fabienne Roy-Nansion, deplored the fact that the court considers “that ‘pouet pouet truck’ (touching of the breasts) is a sexual assault by nature.”
According to her, the court considered that if Franck Lavier “did not have the will to commit” this sexual assault, which he considered “a game”, he could not “ignore its reprehensible nature”.
Franck and Sandrine Lavier, divorced but living together, are among those accused in Outreau. He was sentenced in 2004 to six years in prison for the rape of his stepdaughter by the Pas-de-Calais Assize Court, then acquitted the following year by the Paris Court of Appeal. He spent a total of 36 months in prison. The Outreau child rape affair resulted in a legal fiasco. After two assize trials in 2004 and 2005, 13 of the 17 accused were acquitted after long incarcerations.