Joel Le Scouarnec "literally collapsed at the end of the testimony of his first son, who was questioned this evening," said the defendant's lawyer at the Morbihan criminal court, at the end of the second day of the proceedings against the former surgeon, on trial for the rape and sexual assault of 299 patients, most of them minors, over a 25-year period. "There was a whole side to Mr. Le Scouarnec's personality" that his sons "didn't know, and still don't know today. And the answers will be sought, I think, but outside the courtroom," adds Marie Grimaud, lawyer for the civil parties. IMAGES AND SOUNDBITES