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The life sentence required on appeal against Jacques Rançon for the murder of Isabelle Mesnage

2022-06-24T12:06:57.609Z


Life imprisonment was requested Friday, June 24 against Jacques Rançon, "the killer of the Perpignan station", tried on appeal to ...


Life imprisonment was requested on Friday June 24 against Jacques Rançon, "

the killer of the Perpignan station

", tried on appeal at the Assizes of Laon for the rape and murder, which he denies, of Isabelle Mesnage in 1986 .

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Requisitions exceeding the 30 years of imprisonment pronounced in first instance by the assizes of the Somme, because this condemnation was tainted by an error of law, noted the Advocate General André Meykuchel: at the time of the events in 1986, this quatum penalty did not exist and could therefore not be pronounced by virtue of the non-retroactivity of the law.

"Serial killer"

Jacques Rançon, already sentenced in 2018 to life imprisonment for the rapes and murders of two women in Perpignan in 1997 and 1998, "

is very dangerous

", insisted Friday André Meykuchel.

The accused, 62, is according to him "

concerned about his image

" and "

he does not wish to be taken for a serial killer

".

However, "

a serial killer, for him, is someone who has killed three times

", he put forward, to explain why the former forklift driver denies the facts.

Isabelle Mesnage, a young 20-year-old computer scientist who went hiking, was found dead on July 3, 1986 at the edge of a wood, a dozen kilometers from Amiens.

After a dismissal in 1992, the investigation was relaunched in 2017 when a lawyer, Corinne Herrmann, a specialist in unsolved cases, made the link between Jacques Rançon, then implicated for murders in Perpignan after the identification of her DNA, and the death of the young woman.

Raped and strangled

A new autopsy of Isabelle Mesnage had confirmed strong similarities with Jacques Rançon's modus operandi.

He confessed in 2019 to having raped and strangled her, then to having cut out her sex and her breasts to erase her DNA.

He had repeated his confession before the examining magistrate, before retracting by mail.

We hope that his guilt will be retained.

It was by a first assize court, so there is no doubt that it will be by this one

, "said AFP a lawyer for the civil parties, Me Didier Seban.

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The defense wants, it, "

to obtain the acquittal

", indicated to AFP Me Xavier Capelet before the trial.

When Jacques Rançon is innocent, "he says it, when he is guilty, he says it too, so I have no reason not to believe him, he continued. The verdict is expected Friday evening .

Source: lefigaro

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