00:09You pleaded on behalf of the NGO during the Squarneck trial,
00:12where your focus was really on the immunity he seemed to benefit for for over 20 years.
00:17Tell me a bit more about that first.
00:20It's not 20 years.
00:21It's more likely 30 years.
00:24And the question is, what explains such a long criminal career?
00:30The silence in the family, because his wife knew, his sister knew as early as 2000.
00:38And of course, and this is something that is very important for La Voix de l'Enfant, nobody acted.
00:46But besides the family, many people, many medical people in the hospitals knew about this 2005 condamnation for having paid to visit child pornography websites.
01:10And what is totally amazing is that no one decided to take any preventive measure to make sure that this man would not be ever professionally in contact with children.
01:26So there is some kind of a chain of malfunctions which explains this impunity.
01:34Indeed.
01:35And just a question on these prevention policies.
01:37So at the moment, there are no resources or prevention policies in France.
01:42Is that correct when it comes to child pedophilia?
01:46Very, very poor protection of children here in France as far as prevention of pedophilia.
01:55I think we're very upset with La Voix de l'Enfant by the French political system, which doesn't act.
02:08And maybe, maybe this case will force the governments, any government, to start and act more seriously in prevention of pedophilia.
02:22The system here is very poorly financed compared to what happens in Great Britain or Germany.
02:31It's something like 10 times less, as if we were to consider that victims here in France are 10 times less important than in Great Britain or in Germany.
02:41And what about increasing public awareness?
02:44We saw so much support here in France for Giselle Pellicot.
02:48Everyone knows her name, the woman who was abused by her ex-husband and dozens of unknown men while she was unconscious.
02:55Her ex-husband, Dominique Pellicot, we know his name, we know her name.
02:58Yet for this case, there's been very little public support, very little demonstrations for these 300 victims.
03:04There were public support, there were demonstrations at the beginning of the case.
03:11Now, very early in the trial, Luz Kouanec admitted his responsibility.
03:19So, in fact, there was some kind of a repetition of the same facts that were examined over several weeks, several months.
03:28And therefore, I guess that's why they did not warrant a permanent coverage.
03:34People who were in the trial saw every day two or three victims explaining their situation, explaining how it was difficult for them to live with problems that they did not understand because they did not really know what caused these problems.
03:56And then, in 2017 or 18 or 19, they were informed by the French gendarmeries of what happened to them.
04:07And they connected, they realized why they had those problems.
04:13So, there was some kind of a repetition of the facts that were examined for so many weeks.
04:21And probably this is why there wasn't a permanent coverage.
04:26But again, what I hope, what we hope, is that this trial will at last put the French authorities in front of their responsibilities and start to act to prevent pedophilia, criminality.
04:48For example, LeSquanek's sister, in 2000, understood that he abused sexually of her own daughters.
05:00She went on the Internet and she found nothing.
05:03She wanted to know more about pedophilia and she found nothing.
05:08Imagine that she, while looking into the Internet, that she understood that some structures were working upstream to help those who are sexually attracted to children to deal with this psychiatric disorder.
05:27Then, probably she would have contacted them.
05:31Probably they would have helped her.
05:33And probably they would have interfered with LeSquanek's criminal career.
05:40At that time, we were 2000.
05:42So, that's 17 years before LeSquanek's arrest.
05:47Can you imagine how many victims would have been avoided?