A bulky ghost arisen 1980s has resurfaced in the judicial developments. Convicted of rape and sexual assault in 1983, partially pardoned by François Mitterrand after an intense media campaign, sentenced in 1992 for new Luc Tangorre had not been talking about him since his release from prison in September 2000, been indicted, Tuesday, Aug. 12, for sexual assault of a minor under 15 years and put on probation.
This is a playground of Grau-du-Roi (Gard) that this recidivist rapist 55 years has returned to his heavy criminal record. Sunday, August 10 to 16: 30 pm, it would be “scrubbed” repeatedly to a little girl aged 12 who was playing on the beach near a bouncy castle, according to the complaint filed shortly after the incident by the victim’s parents . Upon arrival of police, the suspect was formally recognized by the girl, was arrested without resistance.
“THE RAPIST OF SOUTHERN DISTRICTS”
custody, Luc Tangorre vigorously denied the charges, claiming to be the victim of a “conspiracy”. A term he already used so frequently in the 1980s, supporting the blindness of many intellectuals who had been writing to defend convinced to attend a miscarriage of justice.
When his name popped into the press avril1981 Luke Tangorre is nicknamed “the rapist in the southern districts of Marseille” . Over the past two years, police in the city have recorded six sexual assaults in 8 th and 9 th boroughs. Arrested by a patrol in possession of a kitchen knife, the physical education student of 22 years is identified by several victims. Various exhibits will be found at home, including two weapons described by the complainants.
“INNOCENCE RADIANT”
Luc Tangorre maintains his innocence and began a hunger strike. His family does not believe in his guilt. A support committee was created. Despite some flaws in the conduct of the investigation (an alibi the night of the final assault, the organization found facing the lineup …), he was sentenced May 24, 1983 to five years in prison for four rape attempts and six indecent assaults committed entre1979 and 1981.
Inhabited by the “sense of radiant innocence” , the historian Pierre Vidal-Naquet, whose brother Then the lawyer Tangorre publishes in The World of 28 December 1983 a forum for elk Dreyfus entitled “For Luc Tangorre” . In 1984, he prefaces the book by a friend of the family Tangorre Gisele Tichané, researcher at CNRS, titled Guilty at all costs: the Luc Tangorre case.
January 25, 1985, still in The World , it broadcasts a manifest ( “Rape is a crime, the miscarriage of justice as” ) in particular signed by the publisher Jerome Lindon, mathematician Laurent Schwartz, the grand-son of Captain Dreyfus and the historian Jean-Pierre Vernant. Many politicians, left and even right (Dominique Baudis, Jean-Claude Gaudin and former minister Alain Peyrefitte, editorial Figaro ) are in favor of a retrial.
4 L GREEN APPLE
In February 1985, the Minister of Justice, Robert Badinter, filed an appeal “in the interest of the law and condemned “ convinced that only a new trial can settle the debate within France. After the rejection of the appeal by the Court of Cassation, the media pressure intensifies: Libération, Le Figaro, Le Monde is more in favor of the convicted
Once all. appeal against that François Mitterrand grants Luc Tangorre remission four years in July 1987, which earned him to be released February 15, 1988, live in log 20 hours. Marguerite Duras receives home, where the welcome numerous personalities who worked for his cause.
“LITTLE BITCH”
Three months later, Carroll and Jennifer, two American students 21 years visiting the south of France, are raped by a young man who took them to hitchhike in the Gard. They describe a Renault 4 L green apple, in which they saw a pile of books whose title begins with a word, “guilty”, Illustrated portrait of a man with a mustache. The jacket is quickly associated with the work of Gisèle Tichané, which recently sold its green apple 4L parents Luc Tangorre, eager to offer their son.
None of these, not more that the testimony of the victims will not waver the faith of Marguerite Duras. November 29, 1990, she wrote a letter to Luc Tangorre, arrested two years earlier, to assure him of his support: “ I still believe that you have been the victim of a little bitch who wants your defeat that cost costs. If I am wrong in the eyes of people fond of gossip Assize Court, I do not care. You remain my friend. “
” DENIAL OF REALITY “
February 8, 1992, Luke Tangorre was sentenced to eighteen years’ imprisonment. A reading of the verdict, the young man, who repeatedly denounced a “manipulation”, exclaimed: “Not again, not twice! “ before getting lost in a curious lapse: ” The truth has won a battle but not the war. “
A few days later, Pierre Vidal-Naquet publicly apologize in The World by publishing a forum entitled: ” Luc Tangorre and our mistake “. “Without my action, and that of many other French who accompanied me, they would not rape occurred,” he wrote. However, he added that the convict, the ‘own folly “ consists of ” tremendous denial, “ deserved a proper psychiatric examination.
The findings of the requested psychiatric examination by the prosecution were Tuesday given “no significant result,” according to the prosecutor of the Republic of Nimes, Laure Beccuau. Luc Tangorre incurs seven years in prison
Pierre Vidal-Naquet. “Luc Tangorre and our error”
The response of two magistrates nîmois Pierre Vidal-Naquet
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