The trial of a Dijon magistrate, prosecuted for having offered his 12-year-old daughter on the internet for sexual relations, was postponed on Wednesday January 12 to February 18 by the Besançon criminal court.
Olivier B., 56 years old, was not present Wednesday at the opening of his trial for "
provocation not followed by effects
" to the commission of facts of "
corruption of minors
", "
rape
" and "
aggression "
sexual
”on minor.
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His lawyer, Me Pauline Neveu, requested the adjournment of the hearing, producing a medical certificate attesting to a "
very precarious state of health psychologically, (...) incompatible with an appearance
".
"
I am really scandalized that this man who has been a magistrate for more than 20 years is thumbing his nose at justice
", criticized the prosecutor Étienne Manteaux, stressing like the civil parties "
the importance that things be said in his presence
".
The case began in October 2019 when the user of a libertine dating site reported that a man proposed that his 12-year-old daughter be associated with sexual antics.
The investigation, carried out with the help of cyber infiltrations, led to the questioning of this magistrate with laudatory evaluations, working as vice-president of the judicial court of Dijon where he coordinated the pole of family affairs.
The latter admitted the facts, objecting that they were "
fantasies that he would never have materialized
".
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Indicted and placed under judicial supervision in June 2020, he had returned to live with his wife and daughter, said Étienne Manteaux, for whom "
there was an objective risk of taking action
". An “
ad hoc administrator
” has been appointed to represent the magistrate's daughter and four associations for the protection of children's rights have joined as civil parties.
Olivier B. was dismissed last July by the Superior Council of the Judiciary (CSM).
His defense had mentioned at the hearing before the CSM a "
trauma
" linked to the Pierre Bodein affair, named after the repeat offender nicknamed "
Pierrot le fou
", definitively sentenced to life imprisonment for three savage murders and two rapes committed in 2004 He was general counsel during the trial at first instance.
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