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His consultations, conducted in the dining room, were free. His customers, “coming from all over France” and “by word of mouth”, waited in the kitchen. Magnetist installed in Tonnay-Boutonne (Charente-Maritime), Joël Merland will have used for decades and with thousands of people a “gift discovered at the age of 12”. This 76-year-old retiree is appearing this Monday, September 12 and for six days before the Dordogne Assize Court, in Périgueux, for an aberrant series of rapes and sexual assaults committed over the past ten years against sixteen women.