He was not present at the hearing. His victims were there to testify to the suffering inflicted on them by their grandfather when they were teenagers. Tuesday, November 15, five of the seven victims of this 86-year-old man were heard by the court in Saint-Nazaire (Loire-Atlantique).
According to West France, the first revelations date from the summer of 2021 when the respondent tries to kiss on the mouth the young companion of his grandson in Pornic. Other victims of incest then dare to speak. One of the grandfather’s granddaughters reports that he also tried to kiss her and touched her breast when she was just 11 years old.
Absent from the hearing, the octogenarian had partially admitted the facts to the investigators. On Tuesday, he was given a two-year suspended prison sentence. He will have to compensate the victims and his name will be entered in the automated judicial file of perpetrators of sexual and violent offenses (Fijais).