The maximum penalty, twenty years of criminal imprisonment: it is the heavy penalty required Monday afternoon by the Advocate General at the end of three days of trial against the incestuous grandfather.
Luc B., 62, has been tried since Thursday by the Assize Court of Val-d'Oise for having raped two brothers, at the time aged 8 and 11, and for having abused a young apprentice vulnerable 16 years old, in his restaurant Monaco de Sannois.
The prosecution accepted the incestuous nature of the facts, which has been permitted by law since 2016, when he was the husband of the children's grandmother and not the real grandfather.
But "Grandpa Luc" was considered a model grandfather by the whole family and the grandchildren he had seen growing up.
"Overwhelming elements" found in his phone
The Advocate General has finally asked for five years of socio-judicial follow-up against an accused who denies from the first day having attacked his grandchildren.
A man who also admitted to having had intimate relations "consented" according to him, with his young apprentice, when he was a minor, then several years later.
He bases his requisitions on "concordant accounts" of the victims and the "overwhelming elements" found in his phone from which "his pedophile inclinations" emerge.
Particularly significant research on the same model: "old bastard abuses young gay".
“There is no questioning, confession.
There is the feeling that the situation could have lasted, that other people could have been victims, ”he added.
The verdict was expected late in the evening.
"I persist, I have never touched a child"
The case had erupted in January 2018 when, following a new crisis within the family, K., now 22, revealed that he had been raped at the age of 8, for a year.
A few days later, his younger brother G. confided that he had been raped once by "Papy Luc" during a cruise.
“I persist, I have never touched a child.
I say it and I say it again!
“Asked this Monday morning about the facts, Luc B., firmly denied having raped the two brothers, as from the first day.
“No matter how hard I try to show my innocence, I can't.
He explains K.'s accusations of addiction to cannabis and a refused loan of money.
“I would have done the thing with a child, I would have said so.
"
He recognizes the rape of his apprentice
However, he admitted to having had sexual relations for ten years with his young apprentice who was particularly vulnerable to an immense psychological and psychiatric fragility that the accused knew.
"Have you ever said to yourself that he has psychological problems, that he was your apprentice, that you were 52 years old?"
»Asks the president of the Assize Court.
“It was true that it was not good but I was not aware of it.
I wasn't thinking about that at all.
I saw him rather with loving eyes than with the eyes of a much older person.
I loved this boy.
I realize that it was not love he was looking for.
Maybe a father.
I did not understand.
"
"He marked them until the end of their days"
"Luc B. satisfies his sexual desires on fragile children or adolescents whom he traps all the more because they have affection for him" retorted Me Michèle Delesse, the apprentice's lawyer, who retains the term “treason” in his pleadings.
The lawyer for the two brothers and their parents pointed out the repercussions within the family that imploded.
“Their destiny was changed when their grandfather abused them,” insists Me Sandrine Paris-Heidegger, who qualifies him as a pedophile.
“He marked them until the end of their days.
He made them his objects.
They are irreparable, soiled, soiled adults who no longer have confidence.
"She adds, addressing the court:" I ask you to break the silence of the victims, to allow them to move towards improvement.
They deserve it.
They are young.
"
His counsel pleads acquittal for the two rapes
“Will twenty years ease the suffering, allow him to understand?
Is this satisfactory for your jury duty?
I sincerely doubt it ", replied Me Aurélien Gallochat, Luc B.'s lawyer who asked for an acquittal for the two rapes after requisitions deemed" frightening ".
“You are being asked to eliminate him from this company.
If we condemn it to twenty years, the maximum, the predators, we condemn them to what?
»He asks, evoking the exculpatory elements: the absence of pedophile nature according to an expert, of hunter behavior, the absence of any child pornography file in his computer equipment.
"If you must find him guilty, condemn him justly, with humanity," he concluded.