The 46-year-old man was arrested on July 9 after being accused by children who had participated in a summer camp organized in Haute-Vienne.
The director of a holiday camp organized in Haute-Vienne during the summer was remanded in custody after his indictment for sexual assault on minors, according to the Evreux prosecutor’s office on Friday.
Aged 46, this resident of Eure is targeted by “About tenof complaints for sexual assault and corruption of minors under the age of 15, indicated the prosecutor of Évreux, Rémi Coutin, confirming information from Paris Normandie. The research brigade of the Évreux gendarmerie in charge of the investigation is currently looking for other presumed victims who could have suffered these facts, at the beginning of July in the holiday camp “Action Séjours” in Saint-Yrieix-la- Perch.
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The arrest of the director dates back to July 9, 2022, the end date of the summer camp. It was on the platform of the Gare d’Austerlitz in Paris that parents who had come to pick up their children on their return from camp had learned that some residents, all born in 2010, said they had been victims of aggression during their stay. Informed, the Paris prosecutor’s office immediately alerted that of Évreux. The director of the colony, who had in the meantime taken another train to return home to Normandy, was arrested by the police on his arrival at Évreux station.
Placed in police custody, the defendant denied all the charges but the children, heard by different police services in their respective regions, speak of “caresses, requests for masturbation, exhibition“, says the prosecutor of Évreux. Indicted at the end of his police custody, he has remained imprisoned since then and the judicial investigation continues. He was already sentenced in September 2000 to three years’ imprisonment, two of which were suspended for aggravated violence and attempted theft, adds Rémi Coutin.
According to Paris Normandie, this father was a former employee of the municipality of Évreux, in the Youth service. The organization “Action Séjours” had not reacted Friday morning.