This case was examined Tuesday, November 16 by the Correctional Court of Lyon, which will return its judgment on January 18th.
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Two brothers at the correctional court bar, pursued for defamation by their own father, as a result of the denunciation on Facebook of incestuous sexual assault. This non-standard affair was examined Tuesday, November 16 by the 6 e Chamber of the Correctional Tribunal of Lyon, specializing in the press offenses.
Pascal and Olivier M., aged 50 and 52, hurry on the narrow bench of the defendants. Behind the two brothers, in the room, their father, 77, scruces the scene with a severe look. Former notable from the region of Chambéry (Savoie), he discovered on January 22 a message from Pascal, posted on his Facebook account, in full wave of revelations of incestuous situations in families. “It took me thirty years of therapies so that the memory finally leaves a carefully buried souvenir, and ten years more to strike, realize the gravity of the facts and accept this atrocious word: incest”, published the son Cadet on The social network, decided to “no longer protect with the silence an alleged” father “guilty of what sexual assault on minor is now qualified.” “Thank you Camille Kouchner for provoking this electroshock that I have Hope Salvator for Tou.tes, “added Pascal, paying tribute to the author of the Familia Grande (Threshold, 208 pages, 18 euros).
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“For me, the important thing is to testify that this type of actions takes place everywhere including in families above all suspicions. The family closed session can be a hell, I wanted in To testify publicly, “explains to the Pascal bar. Ancient architect reconverted in camping manager, away from his region of origin, the man reports a stage of touching in the parental bed, inflicted by his father, as the paroxysm of a stifling patriarchal system. “For all my childhood, I was the subject of humiliation,” said Pascal, calling his father “This individual” or “that person”. At his side, his brother Olivier supports him by discreet gestures. The elder is convinced that sexual aggression has reflected an indoor domination. “I tap my brother with my father’s blessing,” says Olivier, also pursued, for approving a simple formula the Facebook’s post of his brother, putting a heart next to “it’s my brother,” and A devil’s head after “it’s my father”.
“The facts evoked, I refute them totally because they were not possible,” said their father’s bar, persuaded that his recent divorce was provoked by his children, “by interest”. “They seek to take ownership of the family heritage,” accuses Guy Mr. Man gets lost in detail to deny the facts, which paradoxically gives them consistency. “Is the media justice, the internet justice that must decide on his fate?”, Tries to recadrer Thomas Fourrey, a lawyer of Father complainant, who ask for the defendants why they preferred Facebook to a criminal complaint. “He knows what he does when sending this message. For forty years he has been carrying this burden,” his colleague answers, M e Christophe Saint-André. For the lawyer, the facts being prescribed, they preferred to break the silence in their own way.
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