Victims in the French trial for child abuse Le Scouarnec shocked on the public indifferent side

It was supposed to be defined, the catalytic moment for French society.

Horrible, but illegal. Decorated.

The Maritime town of Vannes, in the South Britain, was carefully prepared by a special place and a separate amphitheater overflowing for that occasions.

Hundreds of journalists are accredited for a process that would certainly dominate the headlines in France during its three-month-duration and force the inconsistent public to face the crime too often overway to the side.

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Comparisons are quickly created – and expectations related to last year’s trial for massive rape of giggles in southern France and massive global attention that took.

Instead, the trial of the most fruitful pedophiles of France, Joel Le Scouarnec – in retirement who admitted in court to rape or sexually attacked 299 people, almost all children – the end of this Wednesday in the middle of a wide frustration.

“I’m exhausted. I’m angry. I don’t have a lot of hope right now. It seems completely indifferent.” One of Le Scouaarnec’s victims, Manon Lemoine said BBC.

MS Lemoine and about 50 other victims, they have absorbed the lack of public interest in the trial, formed their group of campaigns, accusing the government that “landmark” is the case that exhibited the “true laboratory of institutional failures”.

The Group asked why the Parliamentary Commission was not set, as well as in other cases of abuse of high profiles and saying that “invisible” seems to be “pure number of victims prevented us from recognizing us from recognizing us that it recognized us that it recognized us that it recognized us that it recognized

Some of the victims, most of whom initially decided to testify anonymously – even representing their photos in the hope that France would pay more attention and, perhaps teaching culture culture classes.

The crimes for which Le Scouarnec had performed everything happened between 1998. and 2014. years.

“It’s not normal to show my face. (But) I hope that it will change things now. We’ve decided to get up, that our voices heard”.

So, what did she go wrong?

Are the horrors too extreme, the item is too demanding dark or simply too embarrassing to think?

Why, when the whole world knows Dominique and Gisela Pelicot, has a trial with significantly more victims – the children’s victims under the nose of French medical establishment – who felt like a little more than collective shivers?

Why doesn’t the world know the name Joel Le Scouaarnec?

“Case Le Scouarnec does not mobilize a lot of people. Maybe because of the number of victims. We hear disappointment, lack of wide mobilization, which is a pity,” Maelle Nori said, from the feminist NGO. All of us (All of us).

Some observers looked up on the absence in this case of one, a tortical figure like Gisela Pelicot, whose public courage caught public imagination and allowed people to find a little light in an otherwise unimportant story.

Others reached the devastating conclusions.

“The question is that this trial refers to sexual abuse of children.

There is a virtual silence About this topic globally, but especially in France. “We just don’t want to admit it,” Miriam Guedj-Benaion, a lawyer who represents several victims of Le Scouarnec.

In her final words, Ms. Guedj-Benaiyunt condemned what she called French “systemic, organized silence” in connection with child abuse.

She spoke about the patriarchal society in which the drugs like the drug were almost out of complaints and pointed out “the silence of those who knew, those who looked otherwise, and those who could have – should have” picked up “.

The listed exposed during the trial is stunning – too much for many on the stomach.

The court in Vannana heard in the exclusion details of Le Scouarnec, 74, in his pedophilia, carefully detail every child in the succession of black notebooks, often examined his vulnerable young patients, while they were under endangered or recovered from surgery.

The Court also told a growing insulation in a retired surgeon and what his owner described as “your descent into hell,” in 2017, after abusing an adjacent six-year-old daughter.

By the end, alone in a dirty house, which has been drinking for many relatives, and Le Scouarnec spent a lot of his time watching the child’s children for children online and burdened at the collection of dolls for life’s collections.

“I was emotionally attached to them … they did what I wanted,” Le Scouaarn said in her silent monoton.

Several blocks from the courtroom, in a customized citizen hall, journalists viewed that the procedure takes place on the television screen. In recent days, the seats began to fill out and covering the trial increased as it moves towards the end.

Many commentators have noticed that the trial of Le Scouaarnec, like a giggle, exposed deep institutional omissions, which allowed the surgeon to continue their rapes long after they could be discovered and stopped.

Dominique Pelicot is caught a “match” in the supermarket in 2010. years and his DNA is quickly related to the 1999 rape attempt. Years – the fact that, teased, it was not accompanied by a decade.

In the Le Scouiarnec trial, a heritage of medical officials – some detailed rural health system decided to ignore the fact that the American FBI has declined that the surgeon was reported by US FBI. Year after using a credit card to pay videos.

“He advised me to not talk about such a person like that,” one doctor said, who tried to sound alarm.

“There is a lack of surgeon, and those who appear welcome as a mixture,” the director of the hospital explained.

“I messed up, I admit it, as the whole hierarchy,” the different administrator finally recognized.

Another link between giggles and Le Scouarnec cases is what they both discovered in our understanding – or misunderstanding – trauma.

Without warning or support, Gisele Pelicot suddenly confronted the videos about his own drug and rape.

Later, during the trial, some defense attorneys and other commentators wanted to diminish their suffering pointing to the fact that she was unconscious during rape – as if the trauma had only, like a wound, when her scar is visible to the naked eye.

In the case of Le Scouarnec, the French police seem to be looking for many victims of pedophiles in a similar man, inviting people to an inexplicable interview, and then informed them, from the blue, that they stated in the transmission books of surgeon.

The reactions of many casualties Le Scouarnec is varied wide. Some simply decided not to deal with trial or with childhood experience they have no memory.

For others, the news about abuse themselves deeply influenced them.

“You entered my head, it destroys me. I became another person – one I don’t recognize,” the victim said, addressing Le Scouarnec in court.

“I have no memories and I’m already damaged,” another said.

“She turned me upside down,” the policeman admitted.

And then there is a second group of people who are not unlike Gisela Pelicot – knowledge of their abuse was discovered, allowing them to make things that did not understand about themselves or that they had not made them before.

Some linked the abuse of their childhood to the general feeling of accidents, or bad behavior or failure in life.

For other connections, it was much more specific, helping explain litany mysterious symptoms and behavior, of fear of intimacy with repeated genital infections and diet disorders.

“With my boyfriend, every time we have sex, vomiting,” one woman in court revealed.

“I had so much after the effects of my operation. But no one could explain why I had this irrational fear of hospitals,” another victim said, Amelie.

Some trial described as if they were like a group therapeutic session, with victims who were shared over joint traumes that previously believed to suffer themselves.

“This trial is like a clinical laboratory that includes 300 victims. I honestly hope to change France. Anyway will change victims of victims about trauma and traumatic memory,” said the lawyer, Mrs. Guedj-Benaion.

Despite the concerns of the lack of public interest, Manon Lemoin said that the trial helped the victims’ to turn away. We reveal our pain and our experiences and leave behind (in courtroom). So for me it was free.

By admitting his crimes, Le Scouarnec will inevitably get a guilty verdict and almost certainly will remain in prison for the rest of his life.

Two of his victims took over their lives before trial – a fact he admitted in court with the same repentance, but a formulated apology to offer him to all others.

Meanwhile, some activists remain hope that the case will prove that it will be a turning point in French society.

“Compared to the Pelicot Trial … we see we don’t talk about Le Scouarnec. We have to unite. We must otherwise be the trial of Le Scouaaarn, and was the victim.

More assessments came from a lawyer, Mrs. Guedj-Benaion.

“Now there is a very important representation between those who want to decide sexual violence and those who want to cover, and this one takes place today in this trial. Who will win?” She wondered.

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