A 75-year-old magnetist, working in Haute-Loire, was sentenced to four years in prison, three of which were suspended for a series of attacks. The Puy-en-Velay criminal court also declared the septuagenarian guilty of “hidden work” for his activity which he had carried out at his home in Blavozy since his retirement after a career as a salesman.

At the hearing, the magnetizer, until then unknown to the courts, put the sexual abuse with which he was accused into perspective. He ended up admitting through his lawyer to having “hurt them”