Le Scouarnec trial: behind the “ordinary” father, the sexual predator

With his ex-wife Marie-France, Joël Le Scouarnec , a former surgeon now on trial in Vannes for sexual assault and aggravated rape of 299 patients, had three sons, born between 1980 and 1987. All five of them lived a family life that the youngest of their children described at the start of the hearing as "normal" , "ordinary" . However, nothing that was mentioned at the bar of the Morbihan criminal court on Tuesday 25 February was "ordinary" .

Today aged 38 and 42, two of the Le Scouarnec sons spoke to the audience about a "completely happy childhood" . "I didn't lack anything. I have very fond memories of my father. My mother was more present, because she took 100% care of our education, but I was also close to my father, I had a fairly classic father-son bond with him" , recalls the youngest. "He was a very intelligent person, who was interested in many things, who was very pleasant to live with on a daily basis and knew...