Ten years after the fiasco that had shaken the judiciary, the Outreau case resurfaces with the opening in an electric atmosphere on Tuesday in Rennes, the trial of one of the 13 acquitted, Daniel Legrand, must answer for rape of children he allegedly committed when he was a minor. From the beginning of the public hearing, the President of the Assize Court for minors of Ille-et-Vilaine intervened to calm the tense exchanges between opposing counsel, demanding debates “clear (and) as serene as possible. “
” We prefer to do the trial of the lawsuit that to criticize, “lamented at the hearing Me Leon-Lef Forster, civil party lawyer Cherif and Dimitri Delay, while Me Dupond-Moretti, one of the defenders of Neil Reagan, denounced “all those people who see pedophiles everywhere”
Daniel Legrand. – whose namesake father died in 2012 and was also one of the acquitted Outreau – is prosecuted for rape accusations against him in 2003 after the initial instruction of the Outreau case, led by the judge Fabrice Burgaud, but which had not yet been tried for the period when he was a minor. The examination of his personality on the agenda of debates on Tuesday afternoon. 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.
“We never asked the right questions”
“I’m calm (…) I am ready to defend my honor,” said Daniel Legrand before the hearing, 33 years old. “That’s a lot for an innocent, three trials,” he added. “This is a trial that makes absolutely no sense,” had renchéri Me Eric Dupond-Moretti, stressing that “this case does not take on anything, we want to once and for all that peace Record Daniel Legrand and he is acquitted. “
” It’s been 10 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, “he told, meanwhile, one of the Delay son, Jonathan. “It’s not huge I ask: just to be heard at the fair value of words or what I’m going to say.” “We were abused (…) it has never listened to us (…) never asked the right questions,” lamented the young man, 20 years old.
The folder Outreau, on 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 has led to the acquittal of 13 persons of the 17 indictments, sometimes after three years of detention.
43 witnesses
The three eldest son of Thierry and Myriam Delay Delay-Badawi – sentenced to 20 and 15 years imprisonment for having violated with a couple of neighbors – have a civil party. If Dimitri Delay and Jonathan were present in court Tuesday, brother Sherif, imprisoned for an unspecified reason, was hospitalized and could not testify. Being treated in psychiatry, “it was destroyed, shredded at an extremely young age,” noted one of his lawyers, Mr. Forster, for which “there has been an opacity cloud the reality of the situation of victims “after the massive acquittals of the Outreau case.
At the origin of this new trial in Rennes, an initiative of the child protection association, Innocence in danger, come to the aid Delay several children after majority. In 2013, she reminded the prosecutor of Douai that the charges against Daniel Legrand as a juvenile had not been tried and risked being prescribed. Forster nonetheless assures me, in response to attacks of certain defenders Daniel Legrand, it is not a question of “trying to get jurors and judges they consider that the decision (acknowledgment) must be questioning “.
Among the 43 witnesses mentioned, the main actors of the original case, such as” paid “but the judge Burgaud or Myriam Badawi, will parade for three weeks at the helm . Daniel Legrand is now unemployed and receives an allowance for disabled adults. He faces 20 years in prison.
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