cross-posted from: https://lemmings.world/post/26913983

Comparisons were quickly made with - and expectations tied to - last year’s Pelicot mass rape trial in southern France and the massive global attention it garnered.

Instead, the trial of France’s most prolific known paedophile, Joel Le Scouarnec - a retired surgeon who has admitted in court to raping or sexually assaulting 299 people, almost all of them children - is coming to an end this Wednesday amid widespread frustration.

“I’m exhausted. I’m angry. Right now, I don’t have much hope. Society seems totally indifferent. It’s frightening to think [the rapes] could happen again,” one of Le Scouarnec’s victims, Manon Lemoine, 36, told the BBC.

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      10 days ago

      Not what I was going for, I’m just very pissed of about terrible “justice” system in the Balkans. Nobody does anything about minor crimes, let alone something big. Croatia is a corrupt shithole, that’s about it. Like most of the world.