Matheus Branquinho, 43, was found guilty of sexual assault on two young girls of 6 and 8 years old and ownership of child pornography.
Mo12345lemonde with AFP
An ex-deputy deputy of the Presidential Party La République En Marche (LREM) of the Loire, found guilty of sexual assault on two girls aged 6 and 8 and detention of child pornographic images, was sentenced on Monday, February 27 at three years in prison, two years suspended, by the Criminal Court of Saint-Etienne.
The representative of the prosecution Marielle Romier had required five years of imprisonment, two of which were suspended probationary, against Matheus Branquinho, 43, who is imposed five years of ineligibility, an obligation of care and a Definitive prohibition of any activity involving contact with minors.
The former Franco-Brazilian-Publier of the LREM MP of 3 è district of the Loire, Valeria Faure-Muntian (elected from 2017 to 2022), was found guilty of having Attressed a 6-year-old girl belonging to her family circle, as well as another 8-year-old child, during the year 2020 at the home of their parents.
He is also condemned to pay several thousand euros in damages to one of the families concerned, which was a civil party, as well as to the association of protection of children innocence in danger. “Psychiatric experts and psychologists believe that his recurrence is possible because he evacuates the prohibition linked to pedocrime,” said the deputy prosecutor about the one who methodically denied the alleged facts.
declarations “convoluted”
“For ten years that I have been registered with the bar, this file may be the most difficult I have had to plead,” confessed his advice, M e Mehdi Mahnane, at Beginning of his intervention, evoking a “personality weakness of this boy with variable statements”, also described as intelligent. “I would like to be able to say that these children lie or be mistaken, but nothing in the file allows me,” admitted the lawyer, calling “convoluted” the declarations of his client who had first denied the facts , before recognizing them before the investigating judge and then definitively retracted.
“Under pressure, I had ended up telling the gendarmes and the judge what they wanted to hear,” justified the defendant, who at the hearing was not able to Explain the presence on your computer of more than four thousand photos or child pornographic videos. “I will let you appreciate if his statements have convinced you of his innocence,” concluded the defender of this manager of a training company. Questioned by the France-Presse agency in May 2022 when he was announced to the dismissal of his former correction in correctional, the ex-deputy Valéria Faure-Muntian (2017-2022) had expressed his “amazement”, saying ” ignore everything about these accusations “.