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Time of India
28-05-2025
- Time of India
Who is Joel Le Scouarnec, a paedophile surgeon who has been sentenced to 20 years in prison?
Image credits: X/@nexta_tv Not all doctors are forms of god, some are the devil reincarnated when they use a profession as revered as theirs to prey on innocent victims just to pacify their psychotic urges. Joel Le Scouarnec, a 74-year-old former surgeon has been sentenced to 20 years in prison after he confessed to raping hundreds of his patients. Who is Joel Le Scouarnec? Joel Le Scouarnec, born on December 3, 1950, is a former French surgeon who is now a convicted child rapist and paedophile. He studied medicine at Nantes University, graduating in 1981 and then specialised in gastrointestinal surgery. He married Marie-France Lhermitte, a healthcare assistant in 1974 with whom he had three sons. The couple began living apart in 2005 and got divorced in 2023. However, Scouarnec is not the only abuser in his family. One of his sons testified in his father's trial that his grandfather has raped and sexually abused him between the age of 5 and 10. The former surgeon has a history of sexual abuse with him being convicted in 2005 of downloading images of child sexual abuse and in 2017 for exposing and molesting his neighbour's daughter. It was in this year that he was convicted of the rape and sexual assault of four children and sentenced to 15 years in prison. Sponsored Links Sponsored Links Promoted Links Promoted Links You May Like 5 Books Warren Buffett Wants You to Read In 2025 Blinkist: Warren Buffett's Reading List Undo What's shocking is that two of these were his own nieces. Why has Joel Le Scouarnec been jailed? Image credits: X/@SnapMediaLive After his arrest in 2017, Scouarnec's property was searched and officials found evidence of extensive criminal activity in his journals where he recorded the instances of rape and sexual assault. He sexually abused his patients, mostly children between 1989 and 2014 and thus, was sentenced to 20 years in prison. He had 299 victims out of which 158 were boys and 141 were girls. He has been dubbed as France's most prolific paedophile, considering he abused all his victims when they were under anaesthesia or waking up after operations. Additionally, he kept diaries where he described the assaults in graphic detail. Scouarnec was dressed in black in the court as he listened to Judge Aude Buresi deliver the verdict. "I can no longer look at myself the same way because I am a paedophile and a child rapist," Le Scouarnec said during his last statements to the court last week. "Many things have been said. I don't necessarily remember everything now. It will no doubt come back to me when I'm in my cell, but what I've witnessed [in court] is the suffering for which I am responsible," he said. He added he neither wanted nor expected to be given any leniency. How many years will Joel Le Scouarnec be imprisoned? The sentence has a mandatory minimum term of two-thirds as he has already served seven years in prison, meaning he could be eligible for parole by 2030, a fact that has upset many of his victims. "To think one day he could walk down the street, see people - that upsets me. We [the victims] no longer have a normal life while they're giving him back that life, and that disgusts me," said Amélie Lévêque one of Scouarnec's victims. "I never saw tears running down his cheeks," said another victim named Manon Lemoine. However, according to AP Scouarnec offered his apologies during the trial. 'I didn't see them as people. They were the destination of my fantasies. As the trial went on, I began to see them as individuals, with emotions, anger, suffering and distress,' he told the court. 'I don't show emotion, that's just how I am. That doesn't mean I don't feel it, but I don't express it,' he added.
Time of India
26-05-2025
- Time of India
Cat in custody: Kitty caught smuggling crack cocaine and weed into Costa Rican prison
Kitty caught smuggling crack cocaine and weed into Costa Rican prison (Video credit: @nexta_tv) In a bizarre incident (what can be a crime movie), prison guards in Costa Rica recently apprehended an unexpected drug mule, a black-and-white cat strapped with crack cocaine and marijuana, attempting to smuggle the stash into a jail. The kitty was intercepted at the Pococí prison, with authorities discovering over 230 grams of marijuana and 67 grams of crack cocaine taped to its sides in tightly wrapped plastic packages. According to the justice ministry, the drugs were bound for inmates inside the prison walls. "Thanks to the quick actions of acting officers, the cat was able to be caught, thus preventing them from reaching their final destination," read a statement posted on the ministry's official Facebook page. Video footage showed guards scaling fences to detain the whiskered trafficker, which had been halted mid-smuggling run by a patch of razor wire, a rather literal "cat on a hot barbed roof." Once captured, the cat was gently restrained as officers snipped away the drug bundles with scissors. The animal stretched calmly as its narcotic load was removed. The ministry confirmed that the cat had been handed over to the national animal health service for evaluation and care.
Arab News
17-04-2025
- Politics
- Arab News
Russia warns Germany against supplying Taurus missiles to Ukraine
MOSCOW: Russia said Thursday it would treat Ukrainian strikes on transport infrastructure using German Taurus long-range missiles as 'direct participation' in the conflict by Berlin. The warning came after Germany's chancellor-in-waiting Friedrich Merz said he was open to supplying them to Kyiv. A Taurus 'strike against any Russian facility of critical transport infrastructure... all of this would be regarded as direct participation of Germany in hostilities,' foreign ministry spokeswoman Maria Zakharova told journalists. Zakharova: Russia will consider any strike with Taurus missiles on Russian targets as Germany's involvement in hostilities on Ukraine's side Recently, Merz suggested supplying these missiles to Kyiv. — NEXTA (@nexta_tv) April 17, 2025 The Kremlin issued a similar warning to Berlin on Monday, saying the Taurus supplies risked further escalation in the more than three-years-old conflict. Outgoing chancellor Olaf Scholz had ruled out sending the missiles to Kyiv, but Merz said on Sunday he was open to the idea provided Germany agreed it with its European partners. Britain has already said it will support Germany if it decides to send the missiles. Russia has long criticized Western countries for supplying long-range weapons to Ukraine, arguing Kyiv uses them to strike targets deep inside Russian territory. Both the United States and the UK have supplied long-range missiles to Ukraine.
Al Bawaba
17-02-2025
- Al Bawaba
Video: First openly gay imam Muhsin Hendricks shot dead inside car
Published February 17th, 2025 - 08:52 GMT ALBAWABA - South African police confirmed on Sunday that Muhsin Hendricks, who is known to be the world's "first openly gay imam," was shot dead. Also Read Gay couple jailed for 100 years after raping adopted sons Police further added that the shooting happened near the southern city of Gqeberha, The Guardian reported. It happened when the imam was inside a vehicle with another person on Saturday when another car shut the road. The Eastern Cape force reported the shooting in a statement: "Two unknown suspects with covered faces got out of the vehicle and started firing multiple shots at the vehicle." The statement further reads: "Thereafter they fled the scene, and the driver noticed that Hendricks, who was seated at the back of the vehicle was shot and killed." 🇿🇦 World's "first openly gay imam", Muhsin Hendricks, shot dead next to his mosque in Cape Town, South Africa According to police, Hendricks was in a vehicle with two other people when another vehicle blocked their path. Two masked assailants got out of the car and opened fire… — NEXTA (@nexta_tv) February 17, 2025 The executive director of the International Lesbian, Gay, Bisexual, Trans and Intersex Association issued a statement decrying the killing of the world's first openly gay imam and labelling it as a "hate crime". Julia Ehrt said: "The ILGA World family is in deep shock at the news of the murder of Muhsin Hendricks, and calls on authorities to thoroughly investigate what we fear may be a hate crime." © 2000 - 2025 Al Bawaba (
