In Finistère, eight years in prison for the former director of a leisure center who raped his nephews

Johann Poudre, 49, was found guilty on October 16 and 17, 2024, by the Finistère Assize Court, in Quimper. More than twenty years after the first incestuous rapes and sexual assaults perpetrated on his two young nephews, minors at the time of the events, but now aged 36 and 27.

The acts for which he was convicted were committed over a period of several years, between 2000 and 2011. At the time of his arrest, in 2020, Johann Poudre, whose criminal record was clean, was married, had three dependent daughters , and worked as manager of an after-school service. He is now divorced, his wife having separated from him following the revelation of the facts.

From one nephew to another

The accused managed, for around ten years, the intercommunal leisure center of Plouarzel, Lampaul-Plouarzel and Ploumoguer. A position he already occupied when in 2000, at the age of 28, he began to commit sexual assault on one of the young nephews, then aged 10. These facts continued for four years, always within the family. With significant consequences on the victim, plagued by major post-traumatic symptoms, according to the report of an expert psychologist.

Then, from 2005, the incestuous uncle set his sights on the youngest nephew, until the end of 2011. During the hearing, he recognized the materiality of the facts while suggesting that his two victims had been able to take an active part in the events, which he was able to describe as “games” or present as part of a joint initiative. If the psychiatric expert ruled out any psychiatric pathology in the accused, he highlighted his sexual attraction to minors, also noting “a neurotic personality” as well as an “authentic feeling of guilt”.

The accused did not appeal

The court sentenced him to eight years of imprisonment. Under judicial supervision since his arrest, he was incarcerated in the Brest remand center at the end of the hearing. Now registered in the national automated judicial file of perpetrators of sexual offenses (FIJAIS), he is also sentenced to a permanent ban on carrying out any professional or voluntary activity involving habitual contact with minors. Johann Poudre, who had anticipated the judgment by resigning from his job as a home helper and terminating his lease in Brest, did not appeal.