At trial of dentist of Marseille, “mouths to hide” found their voice

Since four weeks, the debates of this correctional trial have made it possible to come out a lot of people from the isolation that their dental suffering imposed.

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Two benches of schoolchildren were installed under a plane group in the Bregeaud barracks, which was reallocated to the judicial court, notably to build the vast courtroom, baptized “PHN” for “non-standard trial” ” Every day between noon and two, for a month, a dozen women expect the resumption of debates. They are civilized at the trial of the ex-dentist Lionel Guedj and his father, Jean-Claude Guedj, judged for voluntary mutilation on nearly 350 of their patients.

It is there, under the plane tree, that the President of the Tribunal, Céline Ballérini, sometimes comes to explain a point of law after a lawyer intervention. Law, nothing but law, but for these complainants who have waited for this trial for more than ten years, a judge goes to them signs the consideration of the judicial institution. A man approaches: “Madam President, you do a remarkable job.” Another slips later: “The Chair greets us, knows our names, our stories, when for Lionel Guedj, one is only one number expertise. ”

On the first day, Monday, February 28, they are “dirty” and other insults who had hosted the entry of the two defendants in the courtroom. Four weeks later, one surprises from the civil parties to dissisted on the virtues of the principle of the contradictory. Sacred path traveled over the weeks of this correctional trial at court of Assize Court.

“I do not shame”

But the debates have not only offered a window on the judicial institution, he has released many people from the isolation that dental suffering, these mouths to hide that some have shown in the Tribunal: ” You see the hole in my palace, “launched a woman away from the jaws in court. The victims tell a Kyrielle of small miracles.

Kamel (the people of which only the first name appears did not wish to give their names), who passed from bad nights for ten years, went to sleep well the very evening of his testimony at the tribunal bar. “It took me off a stomach ball,” he says. Olivier, this young man who told how he buys his “teeth” on Amazon and glue with superglue, went lunch with other civilian parts. Faced with those who live the same Calvary, he was not ashamed to remove his dentures to eat. Years he had not lunch with other people …

Another tells that together, they have been returned to “Laughing to Full Teeth”. Samira dared, finally, call his boss to tell him that she was part of the “victims of Guedj”. “All my colleagues have googlized” Guedj affair “and called me.” Samira passed for Hautany to them because she always refused to have a group lunch so as not to show her mouth. When returning to his bank branch, things should change. “Go ahead, give my name, I have no longer shame,” the journalist of the world Michel Genova, in the momentum of a founded pride. Yamina, a discreet household woman in disability, beneficiary of an RSA, presents as a victory the fact that with his “friends encountered at trial”, she now dares to lower her mask to drink a coffee in public. When she tabled, she told she never came to the hearings in the afternoon because, after eating, it must “disassemble everything, cleans and recolle. And that, I will not do it. in the toilet of the court “.

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