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The 45-year-old electrician appears this Friday, September 22 before the Boulogne-sur-Mer criminal court for sexual assault – which he has always contested – on his eldest daughter. During the hearing, the young woman retracted her statement.
Two decades after the terrible legal fiasco of the Outreau affair – a case in which, after two trials in 2004 and 2005, 13 of the 17 accused of alleged acts of pedophilia were finally acquitted – Franck Lavier presents himself to again before the judges of the criminal court of Boulogne-sur-Mer. The 45-year-old electrician is appearing for sexual assault by an ascendant on his daughter, who was a minor at the time she reported the facts. He risks up to seven years in prison and a fine of 100,000 euros.
C. just turned 24. She faces him without looking at him, a little rumpled face under her bobbed brown hair. His speech is difficult, broken. This mother of three girls and a boy born between 2019 and 2023 is moving forward in her declarations in small steps, gently guided by President Manuel Rubio Gullon. In June 2016, the teenager cracked a letter that she had entrusted to those in charge of her school. “Terrible childhood”, The letter was titled – the title was underlined twice. She spoke about the repercussions of the Outreau affair on her life, and those of the members of her family. “It’s complicated to denounce someone you love, especially if it’s the person who conceived you,” she wrote on a sheet of large squares