The scene is striking: the former investigating judge Fabrice Burgaud walks around a model of the Tour du Renard, this public housing project in the suburbs of Boulogne-sur-Mer (Pas-de-Calais) which has now been destroyed.
It was there, on the fifth floor of the “Les Merles” building, in the apartment of the Delay-Badaoui couple, that one of the biggest legal scandals in contemporary annals broke out at the dawn of the 21st century.
A striking scene because the magistrate – Mr. Burgaud is stationed at the Court of Cassation – never visited the scene at the time he was directing the investigations, despite multiple requests from the defense.
Nearly twenty years after the last acquittals pronounced by the Paris Court of Appeal in 2005, he contemplates without apparent emotion the model of the disaster to which he contributed – but he is far from being the only one.
After last year's very successful France 2 series, Netflix is now offering its vision of the Outreau affair (1).
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