The verdict fell in Besançon in a case concerning a 22-year-old gendarme. For having prostituted his wife and violating professional secrecy, he was sentenced Wednesday by the criminal court to six months' suspended imprisonment and permanently banned from exercising his functions.
In 2022, then living in Montauban, the young man had convinced his wife, with whom he had recently married, to register on an “escort girl” website, setting the price of the pass and organizing the meeting. you at the hotel with a client. The couple then shared the sum of 500 Euros.
“It was my fantasy”
“I wanted to share my wife with someone else. It was my fantasy,” the defendant said in court. “During this paid relationship, I did not feel good, but I did it out of love for him,” explained the wife. At the trial, the husband will admit to a single act of pimping without having benefited from it.
The couple frequented libertine clubs in Toulouse then later in the Jura, when the husband was assigned to the Bletterans Gendarmerie barracks. “Do you feel like you have taken a step between libertinism and paid relationships? Have you ever said to yourself: I'm going to damage my wife? » questioned the representative of the public prosecutor, Christine de Curraize, at the hearing. “I was aware of having crossed the ethical but not criminal limit,” said the gendarme, saying that his wife “played a lot” because she “knew (his) fantasy”.
The defendant, who had been placed under judicial supervision and who appeared free, was prosecuted for aiding the pimping of his wife, domestic violence and violation of professional secrecy, for having shown his wife photos resulting from legal investigations. The court acquitted him for the violence, and for the fact that the defendant allegedly benefited from the offense of pimping.
-Discomfort of the victim's mother
As for the offense of violation of professional secrecy, the young soldier, himself an investigator, showed photos of corpses of people who died by suicide: “I wanted to respond to his curiosity and I needed to talk about what “It happened during my day,” he first explained. “She likes horror movies and has never told me she doesn't want to see them. But in hindsight, I shouldn’t have… it could shock her,” he continued.
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During the hearing, the victim's mother, present in the public benches, felt unwell and had to be evacuated. In its decision, the court also ordered the defendant to undergo psychological treatment.
