A French Petophile Surgeon says that “responsible” for the death of two victims

This story contains unpleasant details from the beginning

Joel Le Skuarnek, a former surgeon who is judged in France, who confessed to sexual abuse, which violates hundreds of patients, mostly at the age of, said he considers himself “responsible” for the death of two victims.

During the last few weeks, the court showed photos of two people whose relatives died of suicide, after the injury when they were subjected to sexual assault by Le Skuarnek when they were children.

One is not called; The second is Matthias Venets, who died in 2021 after fighting addiction. His grandparents said BBC that they blame le scouarnec of his death.

“I keep the memory of these two photos (shown) to the end during the last exams,” the former surgeon said. “They died and I’m responsible.”

74 -year -old Le Scouarnec was questioned in Vanena, Brittany, during the penultimate week of a long and debilitating trial, which began in late February.

In March, during the session that took place behind the closed doors, Le Scouarnec – if – a respected surgeon of the town – confessed to sexual abuse of all 299 victims, many when they were anesthesia or woke up after surgery, between 1989 and 2014. More than 250 of them were 15 years old.

His lawyer Maxim Tesier said he asked Le Skarnek whether he confessed that many people mentioned in his diaries were “all the potential victims of his actions, and he said,” Yes. “

At the beginning of the trial Le Scouarnec also told the court that he “committed despicable actions” and “understood and shared suffering” caused by many patients.

Police were able to identify hundreds of victims thanks to a twisted diary in which Le Scouarnec registered the attacks he had in the graphic details.

Many did not recall the abuse they said, and it was necessary to tell the police that their names appeared in the Le -Barnack diaries.

During the hundreds of hours during the trial Le Scouarnec, he collided with dozens of his victims and their relatives.

Many of them became emotional when describing how the abuse they survived formed their lives; A few said they suffered from food, anxiety, depression or addiction.

“You got into my mind, it destroyed me, I became a whole other person I no longer recognize,” the Le Monde newspaper said.

One of the few victims who had the abuse memories received in the hands of Le Skarnek said she was released when the police contacted her to say that her name appeared in the former surgeon’s diaries.

“I was waiting for your call for 30 years,” she said, according to Le Monda.

The newspaper also told about another victim who did not remember the cruel treatment, but stated that she was still “convinced” that she had been raped. “I wanted to die without even knowing why. He stole my youth,” she said in court.

Throughout the trial, Le Scouarnec apologized to his victims, often acknowledging that his actions were “outgrowing”.

Roman Code, a lawyer who represented several victims, told the French media that his confession “allowed” the victims and “allowed them to close the door to a terrible discussion in which we were at the Freedom of Joel Le Scoarneck.”

The trial section was devoted to the cross -interrogation of health care workers who worked in the same institutions as Le Scouarnec.

The lawyers of the victims and propaganda for the protection of children said that “institutional failures” allowed the surgeon to continue working with the children even after the FBI announced in the early 2000s -warned by the French authorities that Le Scouarnec gained access to websites of brutal children.

The National Order of the Doctors (CNOM), who also filed a lawsuit against Le Skannek, said in March that “expressed his deep regrets” because he had to “interfere with practice”.

“This situation emphasized the bad connection between the different formations of the doctors’ order, and we are deeply sorry about it,” the statement reads.

Despite the fact that he was the largest lawsuit for fierce children in France’s history, many victims believed that in France, France had attracted relatively little attention.

The victims of the collective group Joel Le Scouarnec stated that it was “stunned” to find out how the lawsuit could not attract the attention of politicians and society as a whole.

“There was no lesson from this, neither from the medical world, nor from politicians,” the group said.

Le Scouarnec is already in jail after conviction in December 2020 to 15 years for rape and sexual attack on four children, including two of his nephews. He is now facing another 20-year term.

On May 28 the sentence is expected.