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Dils, Machin, Iacono... The major miscarriages of justice in France

2022-12-15T08:35:35.599Z


FOCUS - Before the Farid El Haïry affair, revised on Thursday 15 December, around ten revision procedures had ended in France.


Rehabilitated.

Thursday, December 15, the case of Farid El Haïry was studied by the court of revision.

This 41-year-old man was convicted in 2003 by the Assize Court for minors in Douai for "rape" and "sexual assault".

Since then, he has continued to proclaim his innocence.

Nearly 20 years later, the reviewing court granted her request for pardon, the plaintiff having since recanted.

The review procedure is the last chance for a convicted person.

This extraordinary remedy makes it possible, in extremely limited cases, to re-examine a final decision, that is to say a decision that no longer has any means of appeal.

It can be used in both civil and criminal cases, provided that new elements appear.

Farid El Haïry joins the list of successful criminal review cases.

Among them, Jean Deshas, ​​Guy Mauvillain, Patrick Dils or even Marc Machin... Back on this ten miscarriages of justice that have marked France.

1955: Jean Deshays

The “

Nantes Docker

”.

In 1949, Jean Deshays was sentenced to 20 years of hard labor after being accused of killing a farmer.

In 1952, the police go back, by chance, the trace of the real killers.

She then confirms the innocence of Deshays, who had nevertheless confessed.

At that time, the revision procedure was extremely rare.

Jean Deshays was the first to be acquitted, in 1955.

Compensation:

Jean Deshays gets five million francs for six years in prison.

1969: Jean-Marie Deveaux

Jean-Marie Deveaux, accused of the murder of a girl in Bron-Parilly in July 1961, gives a press conference in Dijon, alongside his lawyer Me Soulier, on September 24, 1969, following his acquittal.

AFP PHOTO STF / AFP

In 1961, the body of a seven-year-old girl was found in a housing estate in Lyon.

Suspicion falls on Jean-Marie Deveaux, the young apprentice butcher of the parents of the little girl.

He was sentenced in 1965 before the Rhône Assize Court to twenty years' imprisonment.

The case was finally retried before the Assize Court of Côte-d'Or after revision.

He was acquitted in 1969.

Compensation:

Jean-Marie Deveaux gets 125,000 francs for eight years in prison.

1985: Roland Agret

Roland Agret is seated in the accused's box at the Rhône Assize Court on April 22, 1985. GERARD MALIE / AFP

In 1973, Roland Agret was sentenced to fifteen years' imprisonment for the murder of a mechanic.

During his incarceration, he constantly proclaimed his innocence.

He undertook a hunger strike for more than a year and he amputated the knuckles of two fingers, to send them to the Keeper of the Seals.

After being released by presidential pardon in 1977, he obtained a review of his trial and was acquitted on April 25, 1985. Until his death, he never stopped fighting against miscarriages of justice, notably by founding the association Action Justice and by carrying out counter-investigations, in particular for Dany Leprince, sentenced to life imprisonment for a quadruple murder in 1994.

Compensation

 : Roland Agret was compensated up to 500,000 euros.

1985: Guy Mauvillain

Guy Mauvillain, sits in the box of the accused during the revision of his trial on June 26, 1985 before the Court of Assizes of Gironde.

VINCENT AMALVY / AFP

On January 9, 1975, a pensioner was found with her skull shattered at her home in La Rochelle.

When the doctor arrives, she is still alive, and points to her attacker: “

It is the husband of the nurse who gives the shots, Madame Mauvillain

”.

Even without material evidence, it was Guy Mauvillain who was sentenced to 18 years' imprisonment by the Saintes Assize Court during a trial that lasted only half a day.

Ten years later, and after six years in prison, Guy Mauvillain is finally found innocent.

Compensation:

Guy Mauvillain obtains compensation of 400,000 francs for six years in prison.

1999: Rida Daalouche

Rida Daalouche surrounded by his family savors his regained freedom, on February 27 in Marseille, after having spent 5 and a half years in prison.


CLAUDE PARIS / AFP

In 1994, Rida Daalouche was sentenced to 14 years in prison for the murder of a heroin dealer in a bar in Marseilles, three years earlier.

At the time, he had been denounced by his cousin.

Drug addict and having psychological problems, his confused words do not allow him to defend himself.

He was sentenced to 14 years in prison for murder.

Finally, his family finds a medical certificate which certifies that he was in rehab at the time of the murder.

He was released in 1997 and acquitted in 1999.

Compensation:

Rida Daalouche will not receive any compensation.

The National Compensation Commission rejects his request, holding him responsible for his imprisonment.

2002: Patrick Dils

Former inmate Patrick Dils.

JACK GUEZ / AFP

In 1986, two eight-year-old children were found dead, stoned to death, along an SNCF siding.

Patrick Dils, who was 16 at the time, is charged with the murder of the two boys.

He was sentenced in 1989 to life imprisonment by the Assize Court for minors of the Moselle.

He then becomes the youngest person sentenced to life imprisonment.

Read also20 years ago, Patrick Dils exonerated after 15 years in prison

Finally, in 1997, we learned that the serial killer Francis Heaulme had told the Rennes gendarmerie five years earlier that he had been present in Montigny-lès-Metz on the day of the double murder.

After three appeals for review, Patrick Dils is released from prison at the age of 31.

He has spent nearly half his life behind bars.

Compensation:

Patrick Dils gets one million euros after 13 years in prison.

2011: Loic Dryer

Loïc Sécher (D), former agricultural worker from La Chapelle-Saint-Sauveur in Loire-Atlantique, in prison for nine years and sentenced on appeal in 2004 to 16 years in prison for the rape of Émilie, a teenager who s has since been retracted, appears alongside his lawyer, Maître Corinne Le Saint, on March 30, 2010 before the Court of Sentence Review in Paris.

MEHDI FEDOUACH / AFP

In 2000, Loïc Sécher, a farm worker, was arrested for repeatedly raping Émilie, a 14-year-old girl.

While he proclaimed his innocence, he was still sentenced in 2003, then on appeal in 2004 and 2005 by the Court of Cassation, to 16 years in prison.

In 2008, the victim sent a letter to the general prosecutor's office in which she explained that Loïc Sécher was innocent.

He was finally acquitted in 2011 after spending seven years in prison.

Compensation:

Loïc Sécher obtains 797,352 euros in compensation for his seven years in prison.

2012: Marc Machin, 18 years in prison

Photo taken on October 7, 2008 in Paris of Marc Machin, during a press conference, the day of his release from the Rouen remand center, where he was imprisoned.

JOEL SAGET / ARCHIVES / AFP

It is called “

the Pont de Neuilly affair

”.

In 2001, Marc Machin was arrested for the murder of Marie Agnès Bedot in Paris.

Then 19 years old, he acknowledges the facts then retracts, explaining that he had been subjected to "

psychological pressure

" from the investigators.

He was eventually sentenced to 18 years in prison.

In March 2008, a 34-year-old homeless man, David Sagno, spontaneously presented himself to a Paris police station to acknowledge the murder at Pont de Neuilly, as well as another that occurred in 2002. David Sagno was finally indicted.

Six months later, Marc Machin is released after a request for suspension of sentence.

Compensation:

the justice then awarded Marc Machin 663,320 euros in compensation for six and a half years in prison.

2014: Abdelkader Azzimani and Abderrahim El-Jabri

Abdelkader Azzimani and Abderrahim El Jabri sit in the accused's box before the review of their trial at the Nîmes criminal court on July 3, 2014. SYLVAIN THOMAS / AFP

In 1997, Abdelaziz Jhilal, a 22-year-old drug trafficker, was found dead in a ditch in Lunel (Hérault), stabbed 112 times.

The investigation then turns to those who had provided him with five kilos of cannabis a few hours earlier: Abdelkader Azzimani and Abderrahim El Jabri.

They were sentenced to 20 years' imprisonment in 2003, a sentence confirmed the following year on appeal.

After having spent respectively twelve and thirteen years in prison, they profit from a conditional release in 2009 and 2011. The DNA clears them.

Both men were acquitted in 2014.

Compensation:

Azzimani receives 360,000, El Jabri 130,000 euros for twelve and thirteen years in prison.

2014:

Christian Iacono

The former mayor of Vence Christian Iacono poses for a photo after being acquitted of his conviction for rape at the Lyon courthouse, March 25, 2015. PHILIPPE MERLE / AFP

In 2009, Christian Iacono, former mayor of Vence (Alpes-Maritimes), was sentenced for the rape of his grandson, between 1996 and 1999, when the child was 5 to 8 years old.

In 2011, the young man returned to his accusations and admitted having lied, having been influenced by conflicts between his father and his grandfather.

In 2014, three years later, the review court canceled the conviction of the former mayor, who spent eleven months in prison.

During his review trial in March 2015, Christian Iacono was acquitted.

Compensation:

Christian Iacono obtains more than 700,000 euros in compensation for eleven months in prison.

Source: lefigaro

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