A magistrate proposing sex with his minor daughter absent at his trial


The trial of an ex-magistrate, accused of having proposed to Internet users forced sexual relations with his 13-year-old daughter, without taking action, opened Friday morning at the Besançon criminal court in the absence of the accused.

This 56-year-old former magistrate in Dijon, dismissed last July by the Superior Council of the Judiciary (CSM), whose trial had already been postponed in mid-January due to his absence, has “too disturbed behavior” and his “ state of health is not compatible” with an appearance in court, considered a psychiatric expert report read at the start of the hearing.

The court decided to maintain the trial despite his absence, “which is frustrating for everyone”, according to the president of the court Alain Troilo, and “completely heartbreaking”, according to the public prosecutor, Etienne Manteaux.

The magistrate and father of three children is prosecuted for “instigation not followed by effect” to “commit rape of a minor” and “sexual assault on a minor”, as well as for “instigation to the corruption of a minor not followed by effect “. The facts took place between October 2019 and June 2020, when he was placed in police custody, and concern his daughter born in 2007. The first two offenses are punishable by seven and three years’ imprisonment.

His daughter is represented at trial by an ad hoc administrator.

The case started in October 2019 when the user of a libertine site reported that a man proposed that his daughter, still 12 years old at the start of the facts, be associated with sexual intercourse with his wife.

The investigation, carried out using cyberinfiltration, led to the questioning of this magistrate, exercising as vice-president of the Dijon court.

Placed under judicial control, the magistrate admitted to having proposed sexual relations with his daughter, but affirmed that they were unrealized fantasies.

“These conversations remain at the conversation stage, but the proposals are explicit”, in particular to impose sexual relations on his daughter and “to make her a submissive woman”, underlined the president of the court.

At the hearing before the CSM, his defense had evoked a “trauma” linked to the Pierre Bodein case, the multi-recidivist nicknamed “Pierrot le fou” and definitively sentenced to life imprisonment for three savage murders and two rapes committed in 2004. He was general counsel during the assize trial in 2007.

His wife, also a magistrate, was exonerated.




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