The Montauban court found Gilles Lejeune guilty of pedophile touching on 11 girls aged between 6 and 12 years old during the events, in the municipalities of Moissac, Montesquieu, Castelsarrasin, Valence d’Agen and Montauban from 2013 to 2018. He was sentenced to death. two years suspended prison sentence of which six months closed in house arrest under surveillance.
It’s the end of three years of fighting. This Tuesday, July 6, the Montauban court found Gilles Lejeune, 57, guilty of sexual touching on 11 minors. This former gymnastics teacher was suspected of pedophile touching on young girls aged 6 to 12 at the time of the facts, in the municipalities of Moissac, Montesquieu, Castelsarrasin, Valence d’Agen and Montauban from 2013 to 2018. “Gestures” “, Repeated” tickling “on the same procedure that had been revealed by one of the girls in 2018.
Registered on the sex offender register
Gilles Lejeune is therefore found guilty of these facts on all the victims and receives two years in prison including 18 months suspended, six months in house detention under electronic surveillance with obligation of care, a ban on all activities with minors and its entry on the sex offender file. He will also have to pay the equivalent of € 2,000 per family of victims.
For Me Tempels-Ruiz, this sentence is “a little disappointing” when we know that the prosecutor had requested three years in prison, even if “to be convicted is not an anecdotal sentence”. For Me Pujol, defense lawyer, this decision is “satisfactory. The prosecutor’s requisition was inadequate. The court took into account the personality of my client. The problem is that pedophilia has a pathological dimension ”.
“He didn’t take enough”
On leaving the court, the tension eases even if the decision is deemed “not severe enough.” It is a symbolic recognition but without real sanction ”. As an aside, one of the parents lets go: “It costs more to put a Macron pie than to touch 11 little girls”.
Some mothers still congratulate themselves “on having been right.” He is found guilty for all the girls while he had asked for the release of some. And then he will no longer be able to intervene with children ”. Touched at the age of 13, Maud is disappointed with the court’s decision: “He hasn’t taken enough. I would have liked him to set foot in jail, if only for a month. Six months with a bracelet, that’s what we experienced with confinement, it’s nothing ”.
12 other cinquefoil victims
For moms Sylvie, Emilie and Magaly, it’s the end of three years of fighting. “We need to take a step back,” says one of them, even if “we have found other victims, 12 more who did not want to file a complaint. We are convinced that there are others. And with prescription, time is on its side ”.
For them, the main thing remains that “my daughter will not be able to tell me later that I did nothing”. And it’s already seen a lot of the omerta that reigns on this kind of case.
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