It’s a summer weekend with friendly families on the Côte d’Azur. Delphine and Samuel, a couple in their thirties from Paris, go down with their 4-year-old daughter, Louise, to enjoy the Nice sun at Elodie and Paul, parents of Emma, 8 (all the first names of the protagonists have been changed to protect the children). A weekend of swimming and the beach, during which Elodie finds that Samuel is ambiguously playing with his daughter Emma in the water. After the departure of the guests, the child confides: “Mom’s Friend’s Husband” would have touched him “the doggie. »
“How are you Emma? », begins the policewoman of the Nice police station, this July 23, 2018, when she takes her statement for sexual assault on a minor. “Fine, except I don’t really like going to the police station.” ” ” Why ? “There are people who have been victims of something so it’s not too pleasant”, explains the child. She talks about her father gone to work, her mother out to buy bread, Delphine in the shower, and Samuel sitting next to her on the sofa, his eyes riveted on his laptop. She is reading a book. He would have stroked her sex.
The complaint goes back to Paris and Samuel is summoned more than a year later to be taken into custody at the brigade for the protection of minors (BPM) of the judicial police (PJ) of Paris. This is the start of an archetypal case of incest, which reveals in its wake numerous sexual violence committed as suffered by the accused, and judged from Tuesday June 7 at the Paris Assize Court. Exceptionally, the camera will not be requested. The 39-year-old man is fired for “rape”, “attempted rape” and “sexual assault by ascendant on a minor under 15” on his daughter Louise. For Emma’s attack, he received an eight-month suspended prison sentence.
Psychological expertise
In September 2019, his companion in police custody, Delphine worries. At school leaving time, games before the evening shower, the mother questions her daughter. They are in Louise’s room, making bracelets. “You know no one should touch your bitch, not me, not dad”, recommends Delphine. “Sometimes daddy touches my buttocks”, says Louisa. “And the chick? “Yes also sometimes, in the evening cuddles. “And sometimes you touch dad?” » « Yes I touch him, the belly, the shoulders, the face. “And the penis?” ” ” Oh yes. » Louise mimics a gesture of masturbation. “I stopped the gesture it was so unbearable for me, I put his hand down, I thought I was going to suffocate”, files Delphine in front of the minors protection brigade which she immediately recontacted when she had just defended her companion in the procedure concerning Emma. The hearing of his little girl, reported by The world in November 2020, is striking.
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