Overview

• Valéry G., 56, is being tried before the cour d’assises de l’Essonne on seven rapes and eight sexual assaults alleged by ten patients between 2013 and 2015.
• He also faces an aggravated rape charge involving his niece during a family vacation in February 2007, when she was 16.
• On Wednesday, eleven former patients and the niece testified, describing trust placed in the practitioner and acts they say occurred in his Villiers-sur-Orge cabinet.
• Court-appointed experts found no mental pathology but noted a lack of empathy and warned that multiple alleged victims indicate criminological risk.
• The defense contests the absence of consent and points out that some accusations are time-barred, with proceedings set to run through Friday when a verdict is expected.