The 24-year-old young woman accused her father, one of those acquitted in the Outreau affair, of having sexually assaulted her between 2015 and 2016.
“Nothing happened that I said in my testimony.” The daughter of Franck Lavier, one of those acquitted in the Outreau affair, who accused her father of sexual assault when she was a minor, returned to her accusations on Friday, September 22, at the criminal court of Boulogne-sur -Sea (Pas-de-Calais). The 24-year-old young woman, who accused her father of having sexually assaulted her between 2015 and 2016, was heard during almost three hours of hearing.
Sometimes in tears, often silent, this mother of four children appeared torn at the hearing between her heavy accusations and a clear desire not to burden her father. From the opening of the trial, where Franck Lavier, 45, risks up to seven years in prison, the young woman had given up on becoming a civil party. For his part, the defendant again affirmed that he had not “nothing to [se] to reproach”.
“I felt bad about myself.”
The case dates back to 2016 when Franck Lavier’s daughter, then aged 16, sent a letter to the CPE of her high school, entitled “Terrible childhood”, in which she mentioned “something serious”. The prosecution is seized. In hearing, she claims to have been the victim of touching by her father since the beginning of 2015. “It’s complicated to denounce someone you love, especially if it’s the person who conceived you”she wrote in this letter. “If I were to denounce my father, he would go to prison.”
Why did she write this letter? “Because I felt bad about myself.”, she answers at the bar. What are the “serious things” mentioned? “I do not know anymore.” The president also mentions a conversation with a friend, to whom she tells that her father has been going to her room every weekend for a year and a half, going so far as to mention a “rape”. “It’s wrong”assures the young woman. She maintains, however, that her father told her “ball” Chest. But “It was a game. By the way, ‘pouet pouet'”she says.
At the helm, she seems impressed and recounts a life “complicated”, marked by his placement at not even 2 years old, when his parents were unjustly swept away by the Outreau affair. She will only find them again at the age of 6. Bullying at school, then: “They called me ‘the Outreau Affair’.” In 2012, Franck Lavier and his partner Sandrine were sentenced to ten and eight months in prison for mistreating their eldest daughter and her little brother.