In his indictment before the Assize Court of Haute-Corse, this Thursday, November 21, 2024, Dominique Sauves, the attorney general, requested 25 years of criminal imprisonment, the withdrawal of parental authority and the ban on contact with minors for ten years, against Patrick Poitreau. The 53-year-old inmate is accused of raping his 11-year-old son on May 6, 2022, in San Nicolao, in the Eastern Plain. “He has a real inability to cope with what happened, affirms the representative of the public prosecutor. Patrick Poitreau's case has a frightening side as the legal lesson had no effect on him. An extraordinary affair by the reiteration of acts. A pedophile type personality who acts as a repeat offender. A man called a liar and manipulator by many people.” The verdict is expected in the evening.
The man, defended by Me Jean-Pierre Ribaut-Pasqualini, has been in pre-trial detention since that date.
In legal repeat offense after the rape of his nephews
He recognizes the facts. Particularity of this case, the fifty-year-old is in a state of legal recidivism. He was sentenced to ten years of criminal imprisonment and ten years of socio-judicial supervision with a treatment order for similar acts committed against his two nephews, by the Var Assize Court, on October 15, 2004. He was completed the end of his sentence at the Casabianda penitentiary center until March 26, 2009. Upon his release, he settled permanently in Corsica.
The victim says she was raped while she was staying with her father, during the holidays, the parental couple being separated. At that time, the accused was living in a mobile home at a campsite in San Nicolao. During his hearing by the gendarmes, the boy also denounced a sexual assault in the family home when he was “six or seven years old”.
Placed in police custody, Patrick Poitreau initially disputes the facts before admitting them during his third hearing.
