“I was no longer sleeping because I knew my mother was no longer sleeping,” says the daughter of the Lanestian bookseller attacked in 2021

“An impact on the whole family”. Saved from a violent father by her mother, she thought she had escaped the worst. However, when the phone rings this Saturday, October 2, 2021, everything gets confusing. “It was incomprehensible. I didn’t understand what was happening.” Aged 48 at the time, this mother of three learned that her mother was in the hospital. You have to come. Gendarmes, police officers, doctors… They explain to him that his mother – a 72-year-old bookseller, based in Lanester – was attacked at her home, then raped and abandoned in Inzinzac-Lochrist during the night. “It was difficult,” she said modestly, this Wednesday, November 27, 2024, before the Morbihan Assize Court.

“We had to be there for her”

A few minutes before her, it was her mother who was in her place. For almost an hour, the victim faced his attackers: Isaia Banban, Dylan Berquin and Axel Gallot. Straight in the eye, she told them what she thought of them. “Get treatment, sir, it will do you good,” she says to Isaia Barban, accused of her rape. Invited to talk about her past by her lawyer, Me Élodie Grelot, she explains that she left her husband when her son was 4 years old. Without dwelling on the subject, she talks about a difficult divorce against a backdrop of domestic violence.

On the stand, her daughter continues: “Overnight, I stopped working to take care of her.” Her mother stays with her for three months. “You had to be there for her. Treat her, reassure her, listen to her…”. Then she explodes: “I wasn't sleeping anymore because I knew my mother wasn't sleeping anymore. I was afraid to move because I knew that a simple noise could scare him.” Three years later, little has changed. His mother is in another accommodation but the “fears” remain. “I felt like I was abandoning him when we found his apartment for him. And it was small even though she liked hers. It’s disgusting that she finds herself in this situation! “. Today, she fears for her own daughters when they go out on a night out.

Requisitions and pleadings

This Thursday afternoon, November 28, after the visit of two experts in the morning, will follow the requisitions of the attorney general and the pleadings of the civil party and the defense. Questioned at the very end of the day this Wednesday, the accused all apologized to the victim. As for the facts, the defendants have maintained their version – apart from a few details.