Joël Le Schournec, French surgeon accused of having raped or sexually assaulted 299 young people, including some minors, while they were unconscious on the operating table, will be tried in 2025, in a trial which promises great media coverage, after the the emotion that arose for that of Mazan.
The prosecutor of Lorient (Brittany, west), Stéphane Kellenberger, detailed this Monday certain aspects of the investigation completed last July and that he is waiting for a definitive date to be set for the trial, which, according to him, will take place in Vannes. , in the northwest of the country, in the first half of next year.
Over the course of four years of teaching, researchers were able to determine that Le Schournecwho is currently 72 years old, sexually abused 299 patients between 1989 and 2014 in different hospital establishments where he worked, all located in the north-east of France.
Kellenberger indicated that the average age of victims158 men and 141 women, was 11 years oldthat only 14 were over 20 years old and 256 were under 15 years old at the time of the events. The prosecutor assured that 111 of the cases can be considered as aggravated rape and the rest as aggravated sexual assault.
The defendant in this case, whom the prosecutor deemed “exceptional” due to the high number of victims, risks a sentence of 20 years in prisonwhich would be added to the 15 for which he was already accused in 2020 for the rape of the daughter of certain neighbors.
It was during this investigation that the agents discovered notebooks in the surgeon’s home in which He noted the identities of his victims chronologically. and the abuses committed on each of them.
Because, as the prosecutor pointed out, they did not remember anything, since they were either under sedatives or in intensive care, therefore They had no knowledge of the facts.
However, he added, the psychiatric examinations to which they were subjected detected various post-traumatic after-effects this may be linked to abuse.
During the various interrogations to which Le Schournec was subjected during the four years of investigation, the accused admitted a good part of the facts, as well as his “modus operandi” and the strategies to avoid being surprised, added the prosecutor.
The accused, whom Kellenberger described as an individual with an “atypical personality,” He had already been reported for suspicion in 2006but the various hospital services took no action, which led the prosecutor to open a parallel criminal investigation for possible concealment of crimes.
The Mazan trial has been taking place since September in Avignon against a man for drugging his wife so that, while she was unconscious, others raped her, facts for which there are a total of 51 accused.
