Overview
- L'Enfant Bleu filed deontological complaints on January 15 against three physicians who handled Joël Le Scouarnec’s case within the Finistère medical order in 2006.
- After Le Scouarnec’s 2005 conviction for downloading child sexual abuse images, the Finistère council heard him, then voted 18–0 with one abstention that such conduct did not breach medical ethics and left the administration to manage the matter.
- One doctor targeted by the complaints is the current president of the Finistère council, prompting the case to be transferred to another region.
- A separate judicial investigation opened by the Lorient prosecutor in July 2025 into potential failures to prevent crimes remains active.
- Le Scouarnec was sentenced in May 2025 to 20 years in prison for sexual violence against 298 patients, most of them minors, after continuing to practice in western France until his 2017 arrest.