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This is a satchel story in the playground at the primary school Samer (Pas-de-Calais). The little Dimitri heckled little Celine, and mom, Catherine Lepers, had to talk to the master: it’s been several times that his daughter complained of the same kid. She knows of view: a small blond and blue-green eyes. Indeed, everyone knows Samer, quaint town on the side of Boulogne-sur-Mer, which is gladly settle young couples looking for houses of character. Some weeks later, the police picks Catherine Lepers, nurse Dimitri, 8 years and his brother Sharif, 10, accused him of having violated. On 5 March 2002, at 14 hours. For her, the case of the binder has become the Outreau case
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Thirteen years later the binder, the brothers and the nurse will shake the Assize Court for minors in Rennes, where, for two weeks, the trial judge “Outreau 3″. Lepers are back so Catherine, 53, called to testify before the court that 1 st June 2015. While she is standing at the bar, two people are at a meter behind her on the bench Civil Parties: Dimitri and Cherif. Her two little accusers now 23 and 26 years.
Catherine Lepers do not recognize them. She remember a little boy who denounced his parents for having “made ways,” as his three brothers since they were placed in foster care Samer, in 2000. At the time, Delay the children continue also to regularly deliver names, entire lists at their childminders. It started with people Outreau, their former neighbors to the Tower of Renard, a public housing neighborhood. It is located 10 km from Samer, no more, but this seems very far away, another world. From month to month, however, children do not stop, and broaden the circle more and more: the press speaks of international pedophile network and Samer even an usher and his wife were arrested in their mansion. Their son is in the class of Dimitri.
“For me, this is a revenge of this child”
During his custody, Catherine learns Lepers it is also on one of the lists of children, that of 5 December 2001 given by Chérif, the eldest. The nurse would come to the Fox Tower violate the home, but its role in the network does not stop there: it would also be responsible for verifying that medically “the children were not too damaged by abuse “.
The kid says in his statement that Catherine Lepers was a young blond curly woman pregnant with her twins. This is the great chance to nurse, if we may say so. At the Assize Court of Rennes, she explains that “these things were materially impossible”. At the time of her pregnancy, she has not moved to Samer, but lives in Haubourdin ( Nord), 120 km away, near Lille, unable to move, for medical reasons. Her hairstyle is also different: brown hair and smooth. The police released the same day. At the helm, continues nurse. “A few days after my detention, Dimitri told my daughter: ” You saw what I did to your mother “ For me it is a revenge of that child. “
It is first to Chérif Delay, big brother, the president Philippe Dary request to get up before the assizes. “You have challenged Ms. Lepers. What have you to say? “ The nurse did not expect it, she winced. The response of the young man falls in total silence: “This is wrong, Mr. Chairman. “ For the first time, one of four brothers Delay back on one of their charges.
” Excuse me “
continues magistrate: “Why did you do it? Can you imagine the impact? “ The boy replied in a calm voice: ” I do not even remember why. Now I grew up, I know good and evil. “ He said nothing more. Then: “I’m sorry, I apologize. “ The nurse turns. “It touches me,” she said.
It is now the turn of Dimitri rise. She does not dare look at him, staring before her, clinging to those of the president. “You have to tell the truth,” says Dimitri magistrate.
“When I got to Samer, it was a shock to I. I had memories, nightmares, hatred “
He: ” I will not repeat my statements. ” President restarts: “You have heard your brother? “ Dimitri Delay does not flinch: ” This is what he says, not me. “ The first fault line just draw between the four brothers, until then welded.
Later, Dimitri was again interviewed at the hearing. “When I got to Samer, it was a shock to me. I had memories, nightmares, hatred. “ Dimitri was just eating with hands, covered the walls of his room with excrement. He was afraid of the dark, afraid of men, afraid of everything. The president reads the lists of names, dozens of those he accused at the time. Delay Dimitri remembers some. Not all. He says he does not know.
“Yes, I see his face”
“You heard what your mother, father, two neighbors? They all say that they were now only four, “ shows the president
Dimitri Delay. ” It’s their feeling, their vision. I have my truth, you have yours. I do not have to justify myself to what I said and lived. This is not a game for me. “ He looks barely Daniel Legrand, 33, in the dock. As thirteen other defendants acquitted in 2005, Legrand is the only one to be tried again in the same folder for a chicane procedure. He faces 20 years in prison. “Yes, I see his face” , loose Dimitri
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At the break, a small group around him in the lobby. They are friends and members of associations that accompany it from the beginning of the trial, almost like a bodyguard. They welcome it and embrace it.
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