On February 5, 2019, at the end of the Basse-Terre Court of Appeal, Cédric Cornet has just been sentenced to a two-year suspended prison sentence, five years of socio-judicial monitoring, 16,000 euros in fines and entry in the automated judicial register of perpetrators of sexual or violent offenses, for sexual offenses against minors under 15 years of age. He settled for a few minutes under one of the mango trees that ennobled the patio of the court. The words are jostling in his mouth. The figure is small, brown, with lively eyes that cannot be fixed anywhere. In truth, he hadn’t really taken it seriously for this new hearing. Convinced that he would, as at first instance, be released for lack of evidence. Cédric Cornet, vice-president of the Guadeloupe region under the mandate of Victorin Lurel, close to the Socialist Party, gave tutoring lessons at his home a few years ago. It is in this context that he engaged in touching in 2013
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