At pedophile former surgeon's trial, the painstaking, meticulous horror of the 'black notebooks'
- Posted on March 6, 2025
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At pedophile former surgeon's trial, the painstaking, meticulous horror of the 'black notebooks'

Prosecuted for 299 rapes and sexual assaults on patients, most of them minors at the time, Joël Le Scouarnec spent years recording his crimes and fantasies in diaries, which were presented at trial on Wednesday by the Vannes criminal court, in Brittany.