By Sophie Carbonnel – [email protected]
A judicial investigation had been opened by the La Rochelle public prosecutor’s office in May 2020 following the dissemination of the content of the “notebooks” in the media
While the first referral of Joël Le Scouarnec to an Assize Court in December 2020 was particularly followed by the media and awaited by the victims, another procedure was launched in parallel before the sentencing of the ex-jonzacais surgeon to fifteen years of criminal imprisonment in Saintes. As announced by our colleagues from the “World”, in March 2020, the pedophile’s lawyer, Me Thibault Kurzawa, filed a complaint against X for violation of the secrecy of the instruction and the investigation and public defamation due to the violation of the principle of the presumption of innocence. The La Rochelle prosecution then opened a judicial investigation, confirms the prosecutor Laurent Zuchowicz, still under investigation.