Victims in French Le Scouarnec child abuse trial shocked at public indifference

The trial of France's most prolific known paedophile comes to an end this week amid widespread frustration.

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Horrific, but unmissable. Unignorable.

The seaside town of Vannes, in southern Brittany, had carefully prepared a special venue and a separate overflow amphitheatre for the occasion.

Hundreds of journalists were accredited for a process that would, surely, dominate headlines in France throughout its three-month duration and force a queasy public to confront a crime too often shunted to the sidelines.

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