Monday, November 18, on the second day of the trial at the Lionel Agullo assizes, the Perigord sexologist accused of rape by one of his former patients, the victim's ex-husband, a farmer in his forties, delivered moving testimony on the stand.
“I don’t know how she’s holding up. Between his complaint filed in 2010 and the trial taking place today, fourteen years have passed. Fourteen years is monstrous,” he declared, casting a look both compassionate and admiring at the complainant seated to the left of his lawyer, Me Trion.
Complaint disappeared
Without giving the impression of forcing the point, the person concerned first mentioned the difficulties encountered by his ex-wife in getting her word heard, pointing out in passing the questionable reception at the police station, then the mysterious disappearance of his wife. complaint filed in 2010. “If my ex-wife had not written to the prosecutor two years later to find out where the procedure was, we would still be at the same stage,” regretted the forty-year-old in front of stunned jurors.
The person then described the hell experienced by her ex, constantly reminded of facts that she would like to forget and by the ghost of Lionel Agullo: “She receives two to three registered letters per month regarding the procedures initiated by him. 'accused. It's unbearable. She is polluted by this affair all the time,” reported the ex-husband.
An ordeal which was not without consequences on the life of their couple and, beyond that, that of their 12-year-old son. “When she became pregnant, my ex-wife did not want to know the sex of the child before birth. She was afraid of giving birth to a little boy who was potentially a rapist,” the farmer continued in a blank voice.
