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This collection covers the Marie Besnard court case. Marie Besnard was accused of having poisoned 13 people with arsenic in 1949. Twelve years later, she was acquitted after three trials and a lengthy dispute among the various experts involved.
See Theme-based collectionIn the case known as Mis and Thiennot, in which Raymond Mis and Gabriel Thiennot were accused of murdering a gamekeeper in 1946, they proclaimed their innocence for years. Today, their families continue the fight with the help of a support committee. They want to see the case re-appraised.
See Theme-based collectionThe "Omar Raddad" case broke out on June 24, 1991, when Ghislaine Marshall was found stabbed to death in the cellar of her villa in Mougins in the south of France. Written in blood on the cellar door were the words "Omar m'a tuer", grammatically incorrect French for "Omar killed me". The next day, her gardener Omar Raddad was arrested.
See Theme-based collectionThis collection on the Outreau affair (2001-2006) tells the story of a legal procedure that saw 13 innocent people accused of pedophilia, sentenced and emprisoned, before being acquitted and receiving formal apologies on the part of the French Republic.
See Theme-based collectionThe Patrick Dils case resulted in one of the greatest legal errors in France in recent years. Patrick Dils was the youngest person ever condemned to a life sentence in France. His case illustrates the importance of the amendments to the 2001 law on the presumption of innocence, which now authorises appeals to the Assize Court.
See Theme-based collectionA retrospective of the Patrick Henry case. Patrick Henry murdered the young Philippe Bertrand in 1976 and was condemned to a life sentence. He became the symbol of the fight against capital punishment, was released in 2001, and arrested again in 2002.
See Theme-based collectionThe Seznec case was the biggest court case in the mid-war years. The collection contains the facts of the case and shows the efforts made by Seznec's grandson Denis Le Her Seznec to clear his grandfather's name.
See Theme-based collectionBetween 1984 and 1987, Thierry Paulin assassinated some 21 elderly women in the east of Paris, committing some of the murders with his lover, Jean-Thierry Mathurin. He was arrested, almost by chance, in 1987, and very quickly admitted his crimes. He died of AIDS in prison on April 17, 1989 without having served his sentence.
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