An alleged sexual predator is on trial from November 3, suspected of dozens of rapes and sexual assaults on adolescents in several Southeast Asian countries.
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The investigation covers nearly 30 years and is so vast that the fifty-year-old will initially be judged for only part of the acts committed in Malaysia, on around twenty children and adolescents.
The predatory career of Jean-Christophe Quénot, now 55, ended four years ago in Bangkok, where Thai police surprised him in a hotel room with two 14-year-old boys. He managed to escape, but when he returned to Besançon, it was the French police who arrested him.
In the meantime, the fifty-year-old took care to send himself by parcel, from South-East Asia, 17 hard drives containing proof of the horror: some 170,000 photos and videos of sexual abuse depicting him since 1991 , but also written reports, “meticulously referenced”, of each moment spent with these young boys… “who need pocket money” he explains.
The man, according to the investigation, does not present “any real feeling of guilt”, although “fully aware of acting illegally”. Despite the images, he affirms that he always ensured the consent of the children and explains that their grimaces are grins like he himself can have under the influence of pleasure. He describes his victims as boys who “like playing porn star”.
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