Jacques Rançon, sentenced on Saturday to 30 years of criminal imprisonment with a security sentence of 20 years for the rape and murder of Isabelle Mesnage in 1986, which he denies, appealed, said Monday June 14 one of his lawyers.
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This is not his usual way of doing things: he has a tendency to assume, but on this one (this crime, editor's note), he gets stuck,
" said Xavier Capelet to AFP, while his client has already been sentenced to life imprisonment in Perpignan in 2018 for the murders and rapes of two women in 1997 and 1998. His criminal record includes five other convictions, including one for a rape committed in 1992.
The former forklift operator was this time convicted by the Somme Assize Court for the rape and murder of Isabelle Mesnage, a young 20-year-old computer scientist discovered dead in the summer of 1986 on the edge of a wood. . "
We are quite surprised to see to what extent we have been able to evade certain material elements of this file to condemn it
", estimated his lawyer. In 2019, Jacques Rançon had confessed to having raped and killed the young computer scientist before mutilating her body to erase his traces at his seventh police custody hearing, then before the examining magistrate. He then retracted in writing. During his trial in Amiens, he consistently denied having committed this crime.
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