Montauban | Incompetent jurisdiction for sexual assault on 4 children

The lawyers of the civil parties followed by the public prosecutor declared the court incompetent.

Of the acts of a criminal nature, several rapes, having been revealed by the victims.

Suspected of at least four incestuous sexual assault out of four minors aged 8 to 14 in Vazerac and Molières between 2011 and 2021 (our edition of last November 18), Karim B., a 47-year-old electrician, was to be tried before the criminal court, this Tuesday, April 11.

Against all expectations, the trial was unable to reach its conclusion, the court declaring itself incompetent to judge a case whose certain facts denounced could be classified as criminal.

The case had already been postponed on January 10 at the unanimous request of the lawyers for the civil parties and the defense wishing to obtain a new psychiatric assessment of the accused.

President Emmanuel Abentin, who had hoped that this would be enough to examine the case, had to change his mind in the face of the new common front of lawyers now supported by the magistrate of the public prosecutor.

Recalling that no confrontation took place during the procedure, Me Laurence Boyer indicates:

«My client is traumatized»

Former President Jean-Lou Lévi drives the point home:

«This file where there would have been two anal penetrations on two children, therefore a rape, would have deserved a judicial investigation»

Me Nathalie Berthier continues:

«This investigation was truncated even though there were serious facts of a criminal nature»

declaring the criminal court incompetent to judge this case.

Supporting the request of the civil party lawyers, the vice-prosecutor concedes:

«There is clearly an error in the direction of the prosecution with an investigation that is not botched but incomplete»

Also prosecuted for domestic violence and mistreatment of his children and step-children, the accused, who came to the stand with a limp, continued to deny all the facts of a sexual nature.

Karim B. father of four children with two partners and father-in-law of three others exclaims:

«Everything that involves touching and rape of children: it’s false!

The president questions him:

— This play with the finger in the anus that you call bobue and droin? What was it 

The accused is bracing himself:

— I maintain, I never performed sexual acts on them

However, explaining to Me Jean-Lou Lévi what this ribald expression means:

«La bobue» being «a finger in the ass» (sic) and the «droin» being «big balls that we pull» (sic).

 

— When you touch your 17-year-old stepdaughter’s butt and breasts…

 

“I wasn’t touching her, it was friendly, a game between us,” Karim replies.

— Even when you tell him:

«Tonight I fuck the daughter not the mother? (sic) »

insists the judge also recalling the numerous sexual exhibitions of the accused to all of this blended siblings.

— My wife was very jealous, it was to make her feel worse

says Karim, who also locked himself in a room with his daughter-in-law to simulate cries of pleasure with her.

Humiliations and obscenities

Coming from Italy, one of the suspect's ex-daughters-in-law, now a young adult, gives a poignant testimony about her childhood.

She begins her story:

«When he arrived, I had to leave my room to his daughter. His children had new clothes, we had those that were worn out.»

Flavie parlant de son opération des oreilles faisant suite à ces humiliations raconte :

« Il me faisait des moqueries sur mon physique, ses enfants ont pris le relais au point où j’ai dû changer d’établissement à deux reprises pour harcèlement scolaire »

Aux punitions de privation de nourriture, de douches froides, d’isolement dans sa chambre un été durant, de crachat dans son assiette, la jeune femme confirme les jeux très spéciaux de son beau-père avec la fratrie d’enfants.

« Il nous tirait dessus avec une arme airsoft, on prenait des tables pour se protéger. »

Concernant le « jeu du doigt dans les fesses » elle poursuit :

« Ce n’était pas un jeu pour nous. Ça fait mal surtout quand ce n’est pas voulu. Je peux le dire, j’y ai eu droit et j’ai eu mal ».

Comme un inventaire à la Prévert, Flavie évoque aussi cet épisode illustrant la vie de famille.

« Il n’hésitait pas à mettre les doigts sous la robe de ma mère alors qu’elle faisait la vaisselle et il a soulevé ainsi devant nous ».

À la fin de ce récit poignant, le silence est pesant dans la salle d’audience.

Me Laurence Boyer l’interroge :

« Vous aviez fait un signalement en 2015

 

— Au collège à Lafrançaise lorsque j’étais en 5e, je passais mon temps à l’infirmerie où j’expliquais le contexte de ma vie familiale : les différences entre enfants, les humiliations et que mon beau-père me parlait des positions du Kâma sutra alors que je n’avais que 11 ans.

L’infirmière a fait une information préoccupante avec visite domiciliaire chez nous à Vazerac.

Mon beau-père m’a demandé d’aller dire que j‘avais menti pour lui nuire. »

Également venue comme témoin, l’ex belle-mère du prévenu livre un contexte de trivialité et d’obscénité :

« Il injuriait tout le monde. Je me souviens d’une scène lors d’un repas toujours bien arrosé où il avait eu des propos vulgaires contre sa fille… Il avait fini par baisser son pantalon devant elle ».

À la lumière de ces faits, le tribunal a reconnu son incompétence, et a renvoyé devant le parquet le réexamen de l’affaire.

Charge désormais au procureur de Montauban de confirmer s’il demande l’ouverture d’une information judiciaire criminelle.

Auquel cas, la procédure reprendrait à zéro…