The 24-year-old young woman accused her father 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-Mer (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, this brunette with mid-length hair, dressed in a leather jacket, 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 her 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 in blue ink. “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”, admits the young woman. On the stand, she seems impressed and recounts a “complicated” life, marked by her placement at less than two years old, when her parents were unjustly swept away by the Outreau affair. She would not find them again until she was six years old. Bullying at school, then: “They called me the Outreau Affair.”