On the occasion of the twentieth anniversary of the acquittal of Patrick Dils, find the article published in
Le Figaro
on April 25, 2002.
A huge clamor rises from outside the Lyon Assize Court.
Like a swell coming from the crowd massed at the bottom of the steps responding to the verdict which has just been pronounced, at 8:15 p.m., yesterday.
"
Acquitted
»: at this word, Patrick Dils capsizes, closes his eyes before receiving a hug from one of his defenders.
At 31, after fifteen years in prison, he is free.
The lifting of nuts, from the Saint-Paul prison in Lyon, where he had been imprisoned since the start of the trial, took place in the evening.
The Rhône miners' assize court decided after four hours of deliberation.
This wait, relatively short, had reinforced the advice of Patrick Dils.
Just before the verdict, Me Jean-Marc Florand had put on his dress, smiling.
He was returning from the prison where a squadron of CRS had been mobilized.
Everything had been planned in the event of an acquittal.
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