The Yvelines criminal court began on Monday, March 1, the closed-door trial of a police officer accused of raping or sexually assaulting several children under the age of 10 and sharing child pornography images between 2011 and 2018 on the internet.
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The child victims - including babies - were part of the family or entourage of the Hauts-de-Seine police officer.
Incarcerated since March 2018, the police officer appears until Friday for rape of minors and detention, dissemination and recording of child pornography, as part of a pedophile network in the region of Angers (Maine-et-Loire) .
Monday, in front of some of the families of the fifteen victims, he told the court, from the box of the accused, wanting to answer questions during the debates.
The thirty-something was identified through an investigation of a 27-year-old Angevin, who was for his part sent back to court for a series of aggravated rapes and aggravated sexual assaults, between 2010 and 2018. This man was the subject of a notice on Pharos, the platform for reporting illegal content online.
The examination of the computer files of the accused Angevin made it possible to go back to the police officer who worked in Nanterre, specified to AFP the lawyer of one of the civil parties in this file, Me Carole Foissy.
The peacekeeper is answerable for these facts before the criminal court, resulting from the 2019 justice reform. It is made up of five professional magistrates, but without a popular jury, and judges crimes punishable by 15 to 20 years in prison.
This choice is partly motivated by the "
unbearable
" nature of the photos and videos of the rapes which risked "
losing three or four jurors per day (...) who would not want to come back
" in a classic assize court, a declared Me Carole Foissy.
