• A 57-year-old man appeared on Monday before the Criminal Court of Lyon for having virtual relations on the Internet with seven minors, aged 12 to 15.
  • He was sentenced to three years in prison.
  • The person concerned, a former Samu operator and Red Cross volunteer, is also suspected of having committed nearly 50 rapes and sexual assaults on other children. Facts for which he has not yet been tried. The investigation is still ongoing.


Three years in prison were required, Monday in Lyon, against a fifty-year-old tried for having virtual relations, on the Internet, with minors. They were seven teenagers, aged 12 to 15, whom they contacted via sites or applications and asked to strip naked and masturbate in front of their camera. These virtual relationships took place over a total period of fourteen years, according to the prosecution.

The defendant, Laurent Moussière, aged 57, is a former operator at the Samu de Lyon and volunteer with the Red Cross. He is also indicted in an ongoing criminal investigation into nearly 50 alleged rapes and sexual assaults, including minors.

"He is unable to recognize himself as a pedophile, unable to understand that he had children in front of him," worried the prosecutor of the Republic, Celine Cuny.

A "closed path of guilt"

"As long as the paedocriminal does not recognize the humanity of his victim, the path of guilt will be closed," said Jean Sanier, lawyer for a man who was 12 years old when the defendant convinced him to show off, in exchange for a helmet and a firefighter's uniform.

The defence pleaded the statute of limitations to seek the nullity of the proceedings. "The desire to bribe minors is by no means established," added his lawyer Clément Stievet, considering that "some minors had the initiative".

The defendant, arrested in Dordogne, has already been imprisoned since June 2021 as part of an investigation for nearly 50 acts of assault or rape of minors over a period of thirty years, from 1986 to 2016. He is suspected of having lured minors to his home, playing on his reassuring image as a Red Cross rescuer.

It was in the context of this judicial investigation that the Lyon judge had discovered that the defendant kept a notebook with many names and contact details of corrupt victims on the Net. The judgement is due on 3 April.

  • Justice
  • Paedocriminality
  • Lyon
  • Auvergne-Rhône-Alpes
  • Rhône-Alpes