On the last day of his trial, Daniel Legrand proclaimed her one last time innocence Friday. Illustration. (LP / ARNAUD DUMONTIER.)
Daniel Legrand son was again acquitted. Trial since May 19 on charges of rape and sexual assaults on children while he himself was a minor, he now hopes to turn the page multiple Outreau trial. Already acquitted in 2005 after calling the first trial, for acts while he was leading, he saw the Assize Court for minors Rennes pronounce a new acquittal on Friday.
More early in the morning, Daniel Legrand had protested his innocence one last time before the court retires to deliberate. “I and my father, we are innocent, I say with strength, courage and dignity”, said at the opening of the hearing Daniel Legrand, whose namesake father, who died in 2012, was also part of this fulfilled resounding judicial fiasco.
The entire court, including the six jurors, four women and two men, then withdrew for deliberations that lasted all morning.
VIDEO. Outreau “I and my father, we are innocent,” says Daniel Legrand
Jonathan Delay missing
In his indictment Thursday Advocate General Stéphane Cantero asked vehemently the acquittal of Daniel Legrand, not for the benefit of the doubt, but because he “is innocent because he did nothing!”.
As in Paris on appeal in 2005, the six defense lawyers, most old boards acquitted of Outreau, chose not to plead.
The plaintiffs, lawyers Chérif, Dimitri and Jonathan Delay, whose parents and a couple of neighbors were sentenced in the Outreau case in 2004 for having violated, have tried them in their arguments against returning Daniel Legrand “confessions” he had made during the investigation late 2001. He had retracted in early 2002, saying he wanted to show by contradiction that his accusers were lying.
Jonathan Delay’s lawyer that he would be absent on Friday. “It is not because for him it’s complicated right now, his nights are short (…) Whatever the decision, he accepts,” said Mr. Patrice Reviron, counsel for this young man of 21 years.
VIDEO. Delay Jonathan: “At the trial, I could finally say what I had to say”
MORE. The chronology of the Outreau case
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