A dismissal from the prosecutor in the first instance. Followed by a confirmation of the decision from the Attorney General’s Office. However, on the advice of the investigative chamber, this case highlighting facts of sexual violence was actually heard on Tuesday 15 November in the Thionville court.
The file took root in 2017. So friends, defendants and plaintiffs decided to take a summer trip to Luxembourg, to Remich. The father’s lifelong friend transports the couple’s 11-year-old daughter on his motorbike. At the end of the walk, her mother said she noticed strange behavior in her daughter, which she ended up confirming to her mother that the defendant “touched” her. She precisely “on the thigh, between the legs, and in the panties”, after having, while driving her, lowered the fly of the pants.
The civil party and the defendant maintain their version
Listened to four times, the girl offers the same version. Just like the defendant, who she still denies having done any inappropriate gesture towards her. Yes, “I touched her thigh several times to hold her and prevent her from falling, she reiterates, and I even put my hand on her back to readjust the saddle strap”.
Then comes the time for the medical examination. At the level of the sex, the girl’s body presents “a traumatic lesion”, “a millimeter reddish tear”, similar to “a nail blow”. A reconstruction of the day of July 22 is organized by the gendarmes, with simulations on two wheels, but stationary. Nothing conclusive emerges from the conclusions that could incriminate the sixty-year-old. The mother, however, according to her staged, and paints the defendant as “a pervert”, who has already one day “shown her sex, in the kitchen. »
After five years of investigation, what will be the criminal response? While the deputy prosecutor postpones the evaluation of the court, the lawyer of the civil parties asks for dismissal for civil interests and the defense lawyer asks for his release, President Rousseau and his advisers give themselves ten days to decide. Deliberated on November 29th.
