“Your breasts are the perfect shape for my hands.” Or. “Send a photo of yourself cumming with your boyfriend.” These messages were sent by Franck D. when he was a gendarme in Plourin-les-Morlaix, in Finistère. The recipient? A young colleague then aged 19 for whom he was the guardian. Now aged 53 and now a truck driver, the former soldier was tried by the Brest Criminal Court on Monday November 20. Justice accuses him of a series of acts and comments made between 2017 and 2022 which led to him being prosecuted for sexual harassment.
The former adjutant also allegedly threatened to kill the victim’s spouse. During a break-in at his home, the defendant, plagued by alcohol problems since the death of his son, lost his temper against the young man. “I hope you fuck her good.” If you hurt him, I will kill you,” he said. The young gendarme, now aged 26, said she felt “a little alone” when she filed the complaint. “Every day, we defend victims as gendarmes but, in the very institution of the gendarmerie, there is a big problem,” she testified, saying she suffered “various mockery”.
At the bar, the former gendarme pleaded for “bold” humor, “Bigard-style jokes”. “The reputation of the gendarmes is a bit like that all the same. They’re a bit of a nag…” defended his lawyer Me Alexandre Quemener. Before adding to his client: “You are heavy, you are a hunk but you are not a sexual harasser”.
“It’s not crude humor, it’s humiliating”
Not really to the taste of the president, who insisted on reframing the defendant. “When you say: you’re only good at spreading your legs. It’s not crude humor, sir, it’s humiliating, it’s unbearable. » The judgment was reserved until December 18.