It had all the makings of a morning shower like any other, which she thought she could enjoy without having to worry before heading to school. But on the edge of the cabin, the one we will call Clémence sees a smartphone placed, lens aimed towards her.
According to our information, the scene took place on April 12, 2024 in a house in Tours-Nord. The 11-year-old girl, whose body and face were captured without her knowledge, points to her stepfather behind the lens.
“I send them, I receive them and destroy them once consulted”
In the blended family, it was up to him to raise the children, before taking up his post. This time, the routine has faded to give way to the start of an investigation which led the gendarme, assigned to the Dutertre barracks in Joué-lès-Tours, to his appearance before a magistrate, Thursday April 18, 2024. As a result, he was released, placed under judicial supervision until his appearance in correctional “for voyeurism”, confirms the public prosecutor, Catherine Sorita-Minard. The hearing is scheduled for October 2024.
Before investigators, the suspect, aged around thirty, admitted to regularly downloading and exchanging files containing child pornography via Telegram encrypted messaging. “I send some, I also receive some and destroy them once consulted”, would have confessed, in essence, the soldier. An offense for which, due to lack of evidence, he is not currently being prosecuted.
Making hard drives talk
Several sources explain that the gendarme, assigned to building management, would have reset his phone and made his laptop disappear before the police officers from the Tours police station, responsible for the investigations, got their hands on his equipment.
Beyond confessions therefore, ” very little “ files of a child pornography nature would have been found at the time of publishing these lines. Other hard drives, recovered in particular from family, in the north of France, as well as the central unit of his professional computer remain to be used.
While waiting to learn more about the elements unearthed, the gendarme was suspended. “For four months, immediately” after having notified his superiors himself, we learn from a judicial Source.
