Stephan Lamberth was sentenced to two years in prison for “sexual assault on a minor”, Friday February 24, by the Bordeaux criminal court. The prosecution had requested five years of imprisonment accompanied by a warrant of committal.
The 50-year-old was the subject of a direct citation from the public prosecutor: he was suspected of having touched his former neighbor, Maëlle J., in Mérignac (Gironde).
The career of Mr. Lamberth, airline pilot and divorced father of 53, had been very publicized, in January 2020, when he was sentenced by the 15e correctional chamber of the Paris court to five years in prison with a warrant of committal, for complicity in sexual assault on minors by “instigation”.
Already sentenced in 2003 to a one-year suspended prison sentence for possession of child pornography, Mr. Lamberth was the first defendant tried by French justice for having ordered, via the Internet, sexual assaults on young girls in the context of child pornography shows. filmed in the Philippines and broadcast live.
Maëlle J., 20, had filed a first complaint against Mr. Lamberth, in November 2017, accompanied by her parents, for alleged facts spanning from « 1er January 2009 to December 31, 2011”when she had around ” 8 years “.
Folder revived
An investigation is then carried out by the central police station in Bordeaux. But, in March 2018, a classification notice was issued by the Bordeaux prosecutor’s office. Reason: Mr. Lamberth could not be located.
However, in 2017-2018, at the time of the filing of the complaint, he was domiciled in France, in Sainte-Marie-la-Mer (Pyrénées-Orientales). This divorced father has just spent four years, from 2010 to 2014, in Singapore and more than two years in pre-trial detention, in Fleury-Mérogis (Essonne), as part of the procedure targeting him for “instigation”. On his release from prison in December 2016, he was subject to judicial review: he was banned from leaving the territory, had to report monthly to the gendarmerie of his place of residence (Canet-en-Roussillon, in Pyrenees-Orientales).
Concretely, the Bordeaux police were unable to locate and summon Mr. Lamberth, after the filing of Maëlle J.’s first complaint, because they did not then have his address in France, although given as part of his judicial review, but from an address “found in files” in Singapore.
In 2021, a year after the conviction of Stephan Lamberth by the Paris Criminal Court, Maëlle J. decides to refile a complaint in Bordeaux against this “ex-very good friend of the family” and thus relaunch the file.
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