His name was in the diary

This story contains unpleasant details from the beginning

When Maurithette’s Vineta speaks of her grandson, her voice is warming with his affection.

“He was a sweet little boy. He had a strong personality, probably! But he always thought about others, always asked if he could help,” says the French pensioner in the 80s.

“He loved to be in the garden with his grandfather, choosing a green beans. He was a charming boy Matis,” she adds.

“But, as you know, it was” before ” – and after” after “.

Mauritzet and her husband Roland are one of the 267 plaintiffs who have accused Johl Le Skarnek, a former French surgeon, who is accused of abuse of almost 300 people – mostly children and almost all of his patients – for several decades. The court started in the bathroom, Brittany, Monday.

Le Scouarnec and Mathis crossed only once when Mathis, 10 years old, was hospitalized overnight at a clinic in a small French northwest city of Kimperle. Le Scouarnec is a soft, dear gastroenterologist – told the Matis’ parents that the boy had to be kept for the night for checking.

It turned out that Matis just hurts the stomach, and the next day he was sent home. But the Maurithette is convinced that the short stay in the hospital has changed Mathis forever.

“The anxiety, put, gradually. It happened gradually in the first year; then he stopped being happy and became aggressive with everyone,” she says the BBC.

It is impossible to finally establish whether Matis’ problems were related to the surgeon. I am sure that in the teenage years Matis moved away from his family and began to use more severe drugs; He later spent time in Detox and rehabilitation.

Then, in 2018, the police knocked on the door.

They told him that the man nicknamed Joel Le Skuarnek was arrested a year before he raped his six -year -old neighbor. During a search of the surgeon’s house, police revealed a dash of diaries and hard drives in which Le Scouarnec was on the list of more victims. Matis’ name was among them.

Mauricette said that Mathis told her the police, and then read him an excerpt from a diary, which seemed to abuse the abuse of Le Skuarnek in detail during his stay in the hospital.

“Then they left. Mathis closed the door and stayed independently without help. And it was the start of the descent to hell,” says Mauritzet.

The visit of the police helped Matrus to comprehend the retrospectives that he had been suffering for a long time, Mauritse said, “His malaise finally made sense; he traced him to the source.”

Matis pressed the allegations against Le -Aarnack, but the exposing was sent to him by a spiral, which ended sharply on April 14, 2021, when Mathis passed and died. He was 24.

Mauritzet and her husband were accused of allegations the next day, and they are now on the list of “indirect victims” by Le Scouarnec. They visited the court in the northwest of France every day since the trial on Monday.

It wasn’t just listening.

Witnesses’ certificate – mostly close relatives of Le Skarnek, who is now 74 years old – painted a picture, obviously an ordinary middle -class family, which, behind the scenes, collapsed the cruelty of children, incest and sexual abuse.

Annie, Sister Le Scooarnek, said she was “taught to remain silent.”

This week everything was taken outdoors.

All three sons of Le Skarnek reached an almost apologetic tone when they told the court about their happy childhood with a cultural, intellectual father who may not have been particularly present, but who was good, patient and supportive.

“We had holidays, pleasant houses – all that is an ordinary family,” one said.

The youngest son, who said he stopped communicating with Le Scouarnec in 2017, “to keep his image I have since childhood,” he said that he was “looking at everyone with disbelief” and never left his own baby with anyone.

“I always experience that if my father can do it, then my neighbor can, my partner, someone,” said a 37-year-old boy.

Later, the average son, a tall man in the early 40’s, who confessed that he was “not quite abstained by alcoholic”, – shared his memories of the violence at the hands of his grandfather, his father Le Scooarnek.

He was shocked when he was first told in court that some of his childhood friends were among the alleged victims.

And on Friday, a stunned silence descended to the courtroom when Le Skarnek admitted that he abused her granddaughter – the daughter of the eldest son when she was up to five years old. A few minutes after the 44-year-old guy and his partner open the room, they left the room to help psychologists.

Other witnesses caused embarrassment to the plaintiffs. From their large numbers they sit in a separate room – the former lecture hall of the university – and conduct materials through the video.

Christian D., a friend of Le Scouarnec, now 80 years old, often answered the court questions sarcastically and repeatedly minimized the events in the trial, saying that he could not “afford to cry over everything that has happened in the world.”

He later insisted that he “never saw anything, so he said nothing” about devastating charges against his friend. When he stated that he would accept le -arnek, if he left the prison, many alleged victims in the lecture hall got up and left their places.

But the most difficult for Maurithett and Roland was the long-awaited testimony of Marie-France, his ex-wife Le Skarnek.

It was claimed that she was in the center of Amert, which reigned in the Le Souarnec family when she repeatedly knew about her husband’s obsession with children, but did not stop anything.

Now many lawyers and plaintiffs believe that she could save hundreds of children from violence. Brother Le Scouarnec, who was also heard this week – openly thought if she was too excited about the lifestyle provided by her husband’s earnings to speak.

Marie-France always denied this and, at the booth, came as proud and often calling the charges aligned with it.

“The catastrophe was amazed: she knows that I was a pedophile,” Le in the Mid-1990s’s diary wrote. “He may have talked about conscience,” Mari-France said in court.

She also offered her five-year-old niece-which Le-Skarnek was convicted of rape-thoroughly, “manipulated” her husband.

“She’s cunning, she. She loves attention,” she said. She later complained that she was “blamed” for everything. Only when she was shown an obscene photo montage of Le Scouarnec, made of her son as a child, she looked markedly shocked.

“It was an absolute theater,” said the BBC Mauritzette, adding that Christian D.’s testimony was “meat” and that she thought Marie-France lives in a “pure refusal”.

As loud events played, Le Skarnek sat in his box-in the main reaction, but sometimes he was noticeably excited, the voice cracked when he asked for his sons. He shuddered when the excerpts of his diary were read, and his eyes were allotted when the obscene photos he had taken were shown.

His lawyers said he admits “most” charges against him, and that he would explain himself during the trial, which should be the last by June.

The alleged victims will take the stand from next week; Maurithette and Roland will do so in April. “I’ll see the Le Scouarnec and tell him that in my heart deep – he killed my grandson,” says Mauritzet.

“Not with a gun, but he killed it,” she adds. “He will receive 20 years, but his sacrifices … They will have to live with that all his life.

“Their sentences will be longer than it.”

During the week, in the victim’s hall, people came and went, but most spent hours every day.

As the descriptions of injuries and abuse erupted, one middle -aged woman covered her hand and kept there for a long time.

Next to her, the young man rubbed his eyes several times, then stood up and left.