This courtroom sketch shows Joel Le Scouarnec, now 74, sitting in courtroom and accused of raping or abusing 299 people at the Vannes courthouse, France, Feb. 24, 2025 ...

CLERMONT-FERRAND, France — Group Michelin and trade unions representing employees at the firm's targeted-for-closure factories in Cholet and Vannes, France, have reached agreement on severance ...

VANNES, France — A former surgeon went on trial in France on Monday for the alleged rape or sexual abuse of 299 victims, most of them children who were his patients, in what investigators and ...

This courtroom sketch by Valentin Pasquier shows Joel Le Scouarnec, now 74, sitting in courtroom and accused of raping or abusing 299 people, mostly child patients, at the Vannes courthouse ...

"I committed odious acts," Le Scouarnec told the court in Vannes. "They were only children." Le Scouarnec told the court he acknowledges committing rapes and sexual assaults. But he said he ...

By Catherine Porter Aurelien Breeden and Ségolène Le Stradic Reporting from the courthouse in Vannes, France The alarms about Joël Le Scouarnec’s sexual desire for children had been ringing ...

Le Scouarnec is now standing a criminal trial at the Morbihan Criminal Court in Vannes. Thibaut Kurzawa, Le Scouarnec’s defence lawyer, said outside court: "He is waiting to be judged ...

Retired French Surgeon Admits 'Despicable' Acts in Child Rape Trial By Juliette Jabkhiro VANNES, France (Reuters) - A retired surgeon accused of raping and sexually assaulting hundreds of young ...

The trial in the city of Vannes in the western region of Brittany will be held in public, but seven days of testimony from victims who were targeted while minors will be held behind closed doors.

Monstrous Joel Le Scouarnec, 74, allegedly France’s worst ever paedophile, appeared in the dock at the Morbihan Criminal Court, in the Brittany town of Vannes, on Monday afternoon. Wearing a ...