Dominique Weil was present on the set of C à Vous this Tuesday, January 17. The protagonist of the Outreau affair came to tell his story and give his version of the facts on this story which turned his life upside down.
The facts date back to December 2000 when the four sons of Myriam Badaoui and Thierry Delay, placed in a foster family, accuse their parents of sexual abuse in the family home. The couple lives in Outreau, a town in Pas-de-Calais, which will then give its name to this case. Recognizing part of the facts, the mother incriminates other people, including neighbors and family members. A documentary retracing this story will be broadcast this Tuesday, January 17 on France 2. Among the protagonists, there is Dominique Weil. Guest of the set of C à Vous, the abbot gave a moving testimony. “Testifying is complicated. As soon as we talk about it, about this case, I react immediately“, he began before adding: “I’m immediately in tune because I haven’t forgotten anything“Despite the years that have passed, Dominique Weil does not forget.”I always intend to turn the page but I realize, as soon as someone talks to me about it, that I haven’t turned it. I still live it“, he continued, upset. Afterwards, the abbot remembered the day when the police came to his home. “They find a real different from what it is“, did he declare. “If they saw a heart, they saw it upside down and I told myself that one day or another, reality will impose itself and catch up with them“, continues Dominique Wiel, later acquitted.
This case has been talked about a lot for several years and it is in the columns of Télé Star that Dominique Wiel has agreed to mention it. Regarding this documentary series, he explains that it was important for him to participate. “It’s still an ordeal, but it’s important because people who have read a few articles on the case will finally be able to understand what we experienced from the inside, what really happened“, he first indicated. First found guilty, the abbot spent 944 days in prison. A very complicated period for him. ” I was angry to be wrongly accused, but even more to not have access to the whole file“, he lamented before adding: “I remained ignorant of all the charges until my release from prison. Can you imagine that the stakeholders did not have access to it while the journalists knew the whole affair?“Once released from prison, Dominique Weil did not wish to leave Outreau. “I wanted to clear my honor“, he said before continuing: “If I hadn’t come back, people would have taken it for a guilty flight“. Today, the abbot gives his version of the facts in the documentary series.
Dominique Weil: has he forgiven Myriam Badaoui and Thierry Delay?
The Outreau affair turned Dominique Weil’s life upside down. Wrongly accused, the abbot has become a protagonist in this story. However, he assured not to blame the children at all. “I knew, having been responsible for summer camps, that a child can be carried away by the imagination and even more when, around him, adults walk in the combination“, he assured in the columns of Télé Star.I was fully aware that they were caught in a whirlwind“, he continued before adding: “Between the violence in which they lived and the media breadth of their story, they were totally demolished“. For his part, Dominique Weil specifies that his life has been turned upside down. “As for me, I don’t know if I will regain my serenity one day. This matter is definitely behind me, but talking about it with you brings it all to the surface.“, he concluded.