An investigating judge was designated in 2020 by the Rochelle Prosecutor’s office as a result of the filing of a complaint by the lawyer of the former pedophile surgeon, already convicted in a first component of the case. and suspected of committing rapes and sexual assaults on more than 312 victims.
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The Joël Case Le Scouarnec has a new forefront. According to the information of the world, a judicial information was opened in May 2020 by the Parquet of La Rochelle for “violation of the professional secrecy and dissemination to a third party reproduction or act of procedure of instruction by a party, susceptible To have been committed to Saintes (Charente-Maritime) between the 1 ER August 2019 and March 9, 2020 “, as part of the procedures for the former pedophile surgeon.
In December 2020, the latter was sentenced to fifteen years of criminal imprisonment by the Court of Assize of Saintes in a first issue of rape and sexual assault on four minor victims, including two nieces and a neighbor. Joël Le Scouarnec, 71, has also been indicted since October 2020 in Lorient (Morbihan) for several chiefs, including “rape and sexual assault on minors under 15”: he is suspected of having abused, between 1986 and 2014, from 312 suspected victims.
Judicial information was opened by the Rochelle Prosecutor’s office after the deposit in March 2020, in front of the Holy Prosecutor’s office, a criminal complaint against X for “violation of the secret of education and investigation and public defamation due to the violation of the principle of the presumption of innocence “by the lawyer of the Scouarnec, M e Thibaut Kurzawa.
This target complaint M e Francesca Satta, “lawyer of civil parties under the same file, following different media publications on the occasion of which M e SATTA mentioned elements relating to both the investigating record and to be the subject of an upcoming trial (since), to a current investigation (in Lorient), “explains the prosecutor of the Republic from La Rochelle, Laurent Zuchowicz, seized the file in May 2020.
“A rochelle instructor magistrate has been appointed to investigate this case. Since then, the case has always been instruction in La Rochelle,” says Zuchowicz. The magistrate specifies that, on 8 September 2020, the Criminal Chamber of the Court of Cassation declared inadmissible the motion formed by Joël The Scouarnec tending to the referral to another jurisdiction because of legitimate suspicion against the designated instructor magistrate, He previously instructed the case that resulted in the referral of the person concerned before the Assize Court of Charente-Maritime. “In December 2021, the Attorney General of Poitiers requested the change of discovery of the judicial information.
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