Ms Lemoine and some 50 other victims, stung by an apparent lack of public interest in the trial, have formed their own campaign group to pressure the French authorities, accusing the government of ...

A 74-year-old pedophile and former surgeon was given a maximum 20-year prison sentence on Wednesday by a French court for the ...

The numbers involved in France’s largest child abuse trial are staggering: 299 alleged victims, sexually abused in 10 hospitals and clinics over 25 years – all by one doctor, prosecutors say.

Lévêque is set to testify at France’s largest-ever child sex abuse trial, which opens Monday in Vannes, a picturesque town in coastal Brittany. Former surgeon Joël Le Scouarnec, ...

Paris (CNN) — The numbers involved in France’s largest child abuse trial are staggering: 299 alleged victims, sexually abused in 10 hospitals and clinics over 25 years – all by one doctor ...

The trial of France's most prolific known paedophile comes to an end this week amid widespread frustration. ... Victims in landmark child abuse trial ask why France doesn't want to know.

‘The devil dressed in a white coat’: Inside France’s largest-ever child abuse trial after ex-surgeon victimised 299 patients. Tara Cobham and Rachel Clun report on the case of Joel Le ...

The new trial began in February and laid bare a pattern of abuse between 1989 and 2014. Most of the victims were unconscious or sedated hospital patients at the time of the assaults. The average ...

Instead, the trial of France's most prolific known paedophile, Joel Le Scouarnec - a retired surgeon who has admitted in court to raping or sexually assaulting 299 people, almost all of them ...

Victims in landmark child abuse trial ask why France doesn't want to know Image source, Getty Images Image caption, Protesters outside the court in Vannes have turned out to show their support for ...

Victims in landmark child abuse trial ask why France doesn't want to know. Andrew Harding - BBC Paris correspondent. May 24, 2025 at 4:08 PM. Copied; ...