The facts took place from January to July 2019. The father of two girls, who no longer lives with their mother, is used to picking them up in Thionville with his ex-father-in-law, who keeps them very often since their separation. . But one evening, he says he saw the 62-year-old man slip his hand into the panties of one of his daughters. He immediately shares his fears with his former companion. But she doesn’t seem more upset or worried than that. And for good reason: “Me too, since the age of 15, he has been slapping me on the buttocks. It’s a game for him, ”she said on Tuesday 1is December at the helm.
The father of the girls, who admits not knowing how to deal with them to bring up the subject, then organizes a face-to-face interview with two other people. Women. There, the sisters, aged 4 and 9 at the time of the incident, will open their hearts. The older one will reveal that her grandfather touches her butt all the time. “I don’t like it, I’m sick of it,” she will say. The little one will tell that he regularly puts “his hand in the panties.” It hurts in the buttocks, ”she complained. Both feel that this is not normal and ask that “it stop”.
–
Fifteen months in prison required
A psychic expertise will confirm that the children do not invent anything. “These revelations come two months after our separation. It’s strange, isn’t it? “Asks the ex-partner and mother of the two girls. Absent at the hearing to watch over his companion, victim of a stroke, as will reveal his counsel Me Pontida, the defendant has always denied the facts. “It was a joke,” the retiree told investigators, acknowledging “small slaps on the buttocks, but never caresses”. “We must remain serious”, jumped the lawyer of the civil parties, Me Staudt. “There is no grandparent who touches the buttocks of their grandchildren every day! “The deputy prosecutor of Thionville, Émeline Dannenberger, also castigates” this behavior not really usual on the part of a grandfather, under the guise of playing or simply being tactile. Besides, the girls don’t say: he pats my buttocks, but he puts his hand on the buttocks ”.
The prosecution requires fifteen months of imprisonment including nine months with a probationary suspension and the prohibition to come into contact with his granddaughters. The judgment was reserved on January 5.
–
