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“Stand up please” , asks Philippe Dary, who chairs the Court . Assizes of minors, Rennes
In the box, Daniel Legrand rises
-. “Even if questions are asked by lawyers, answer me looking as if I asked you myself “, continues the President, the tone assumed by magistrates to initiate the accused to the mysteries of the procedure.
And the other drops “I know, I’m used to. “
Daniel Legrand, 33 was one of thirteen paid in the Outreau case in 2005,” the greatest legal fiasco “French where Badoui Myriam, his son and two neighbors had accused more than 70 people to participate in an international pedophile network. After two trials, he compared the third time the Assizes – minor this time around – no new elements but only because he had not yet 18 years from 1997 to 1999, the beginning of the relevant period <. / p>
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“If he is acquitted or has suspended, I fart a cable: it’s my last cartridge” , announced well before the hearing Cherif Delay, a son of Myriam Badaoui, civil party as these two brothers. This May 19, for the opening of the trial, stands the hedge cameras of the great days. It jostles front of the room, association representatives seek to intimidate the family of accused some journalists.
Inside, it’s the same reason for the Outreau 3 that lawyers begin férailler to. “In 30 years of career, this is the first time I see an accused to be both minors and adults” , Eric Dupond-Moretti launches, one of those defending Legrand. Summoned to explain himself, judges have attempted to dodge by sending mails. Debates still climb a tone.
“A dead weight”
In the box, Daniel Legrand closes his eyes, as if the urge to fight had happened to him, anger too, that same passion that inhabited when he shouted his innocence before the Assize Court of Saint-Omer in 2004 and Paris in 2005. “He does not want anything, a dead weight” , analyzes the stand Dr. Ait Menguellet, psychiatry department head in Lille.
Sometimes Legrand tries to interresser this young man whose court struggles to talk to him a boy of 16 who dreamed football champion. Himself. Two witnesses and a few pages of minutes are all that talk of his personality in the 37 volumes of the investigation. A list of twenty names were drawn, teachers, club players or neighborhood buddies, who signed a petition of support. The judge Fabrice Burgaud instruction has not sought to hear them.
“Outreau? The story we fell on the corner of the mouth “, says Peggy Legrand, forties. Girl worker, workman woman is she who ultimately will rub jurors Rennes in the House Legrand in Wimereux, a seaside resort on the Opal Coast 10 km of Outreau. To enter the kitchen, you had to go the slippers so as not to scratch the tiles. TV is extinguished when two people kissing on screen. “Daniel was a teenage life, always the same. He got up late. The neighborhood kids were beating the fenètre and all were moving on the wall in front of the pavilion. They were discussing. Smoked joints. Were going to kick the ball on the meadow, two hundred meters away. “
leached life
Neil Reagan had the same name as its father, boilermaker for more than 40 years in the same company, never vacation to pay the pavilion. When he finally entered, the Reagans were accommodated where they were, in the family. Both Daniel slept in the car, an old Citroen, parked in front of Peggy. It was at that time, on 14 November 2001, they were both arrested.
“You know that you Myriam Badawi was also accused of having orgies with it? “, asks Stéphane Cantero, Advocate General Nadine Legrand, Daniel’s mother
She exclaims. ” Oh no, I never cheated on my husband ” . It is a small woman with very short hair, like washed out by life and a foot amputation is slightly limp. At the first trial in Saint-Omer, he had to explain what it meant to “orgy”. She did not understand it either when he was asked if it was already entering a sex shop. She had replied blandly: “Yes, I confess frankly, to exchange a cassette Titanic ” . Her husband was then accused of being the leader of a pedophile network, shooting video in Belgium with children and a German shepherd, and sell them with his son in a sex shop in Boulogne-sur-Mer. He died in 2012, seven days to the day after his acquittal. In the box, the son fell asleep.
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