Outreau Affair: new trial for one of the paid – Liberation

Ten years after the fiasco that had shaken the judiciary, the Outreau affair resurfaces. Tuesday opens the trial in Rennes foundations of one of the 13 acquitted son Daniel Legrand, which must meet rapes on children he allegedly committed when he was a minor. These charges were brought against him in 2003 after the initial instruction of the Outreau affair led by the judge Fabrice Burgaud, but had not yet been tried. As for the alleged acts committed when he was an adult and for which he was acquitted, the alleged rape allegedly committed on the four son of the Delay family, whose father and mother admitted having sexually abused.

“I am serene [...] I am ready to defend my honor , said Daniel Legrand – whose father died in 2012, was also one of Outreau paid – in the press before the hearing. That’s a lot for an innocent three trials. “ ” This is a trial that has absolutely no sense “, added the One of his lawyers, M ^th Eric Dupont-Moretti, adding that “we do not come here to prove his innocence, she acquired” .

“It’s been ten years that I live with a puzzle that is not finished and only a fine justice can bring me the last piece of the puzzle that will let me live in an era of today ‘ hui “, for his part, told one of Delay son, Jonathan, the only announced that he would testify. “It will be difficult for everyone , recognized one of his lawyers, M ^th Patrice Reviron. And if Daniel Legrand is acquitted at the end of a debate that is loyal, it will not cause any difficulty, including Jonathan, he wants to talk, he has things to say “.

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The public hearing before the Court of Assize minor Ille-et-Vilaine opened Tuesday just before 10 am in an electric atmosphere. From the start of the public hearing, the President of the Assize Court for minors of Ille-et-Vilaine, Philippe Dary, intervened to calm the tense exchanges between opposing counsel, demanding debates ” clear [and] as serene as possible “.

The Outreau case, concerning an alleged pedophile network, erupted in February 2001. But after two trials, in Saint-Omer ( Pas-de-Calais) in 2004 and on appeal in Paris in late 2005, the case resulted in the acquittal of 13 persons of the 17 indictments, sometimes after three years of detention. President Jacques Chirac even apologized to paid.

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Side victims in son Thierry and Myriam Delay Delay Badawi, sentenced to twenty-five years’ imprisonment for having violated with a couple of neighbors, suffering is no less, say lawyers. Three of them, older, Chérif, Dimitri and Jonathan Delay, were civil parties. “Children Delay were left to the street, we did not really deal with the destruction they suffered” , explained before trial M ^th Leon Lef Forster, lawyer Cherif and Dimitri Delay. Chérif Delay, imprisoned for an unspecified reason, was also hospitalized and can not testify.

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It is the child advocacy group, Innocence in Danger, has assisted several children after Delay majority who reminded the prosecutor of Douai in 2013 that the charges against Daniel Legrand son was a minor when they had not yet been tried and risked being prescribed. This initiative led to the new trial in Rennes. M ^th Lef Forster nonetheless provides, in response to attacks of certain defenders Daniel Legrand, that it is no “trying to get jurors and judges that they consider that the decision [acknowledgment] must be questioned “. One of them, Hubert Delarue, does not mince words: “Behind all that, in reality, whatever they say, there is the whole team of revisionists who, in a very cowardly, pass their time saying that the culprits were acquitted. “

Among the 43 witnesses called to the bar, the main actors in the original case, such as” paid “but the judge Burgaud or Myriam Badawi, will parade for three weeks at the helm.

Describing this process of “absolute nonsense” , M ^th Julien Delarue Another lawyer Daniel Legrand believes his “only merit” is to have a reasoned decision of acquittal, which the law does not require it to do in 2005. Aged 33 Daniel Legrand son is unemployed and receives an allowance for disabled adults. He faces twenty years in prison.