At the Quimperlé hospital in Brittany, she and he had neighboring rooms on the first floor of the building where the medical staff were on guard. She was Samia Hadjem, anesthetist. It was Joël Le Scouarnec, a stomach surgeon. It looked like the ideal neighbor, never had visitors, made little noise and never appeared at the parties organized by the students. The only thing that indicated whether he was in his room or was not his magnificent voice, which threw Breton sailor.
“In the operating room, we share the same patients,” Hadjem said. This was at the beginning of the 2000s. Two decades later, they meet again, before the Criminal Court in Vannes: she, she, 55, testifying; He, 74, in the accused box. Since February 24, Le Scouarnec has been tried for sexual violations and aggressions committed 299 victims, most minors. Hadjem swore before the court that he saw nothing, he knew nothing.
When he was hired in Quimperlé in 2004, the surgeon had already committed about 200 sexual crimes in 20 years in two clinics, in Loches, the center of France and then in Vannes. However, they had not presented that the complaints in the leg or professionals did not circulate rumors and nobody caught him in the spot, exception for a mother, who asked him not to go to his daughter’s room. Hey, possible reassured it when referring to “medical gestures.”
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