A person indicted for rape and sexual assault on 34 youngsters close to Lyon | EUROtoday

A person already indicted in 2025 for rape of younger boys in a village in Beaujolais, close to Lyon, was indicted once more in April after the invention of different victims, 34 in complete, aged three to 9 years previous, the Villefranche-sur-Saône prosecutor’s workplace mentioned on Wednesday April 29, confirming info from Le Monde.

The suspect, aged 40, was indicted in April on costs of rape and sexual assault of minors beneath the age of 15, and fixation and possession of pornographic photos of minors, prosecutor Laetitia Francart advised AFP.

This father had already been indicted in January 2025 for a similar costs, and his supplementary indictment in April “targets additional victims”, added Laetitia Francart, specifying that, on this case, there at the moment are 34. “All minors are not victims of the same offenses”, she additionally underlined.

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The occasions occurred between 2020 and 2024 within the village of Lucenay, within the coronary heart of Beaujolais, round thirty kilometers north of Lyon.

A digital camera hidden in an alarm clock

The man focused boys attending the identical faculty as his son and daughter, from kindergarten to elementary faculty, for instance on the event of birthdays or sleepovers organized at his residence, specifies the each day Le Monde.

He additionally made quite a few movies and pictures (practically 330) of the rapes and sexual assaults dedicated on these youngsters, awake or asleep, aged 3 to 9 years previous on the time of the occasions. To do that, he used his telephone or a small digital camera hidden in an alarm clock, says the newspaper.

But when some youngsters started to talk to their dad and mom in regards to the actions of the forty-year-old, complaints ended up being filed. The man was arrested and brought into police custody in December 2024.

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He will then be launched and can write a letter expressing his intention to commit suicide, addressed to his youngsters, his family members, and to the households and baby victims. “I think I was born like that, I didn’t choose to like boys… boys who were too young (…). I hated myself for that, but I didn’t have the strength to talk about it”, he relates particularly, in response to Le Monde.

He then tried to hold himself from an oak tree within the Charnay forest, within the Rhône, however was recovered alive by the gendarmes.

During his hearings, signifies the each day, he admitted the information about “around thirty children”. He has been in pre-trial detention for greater than a 12 months.

With AFP