“
Everyone comes to the trial to see these notable pedophiles, to see these poor and destitute people who sold their children,
” remembers Maître Berton, lawyer for Alain Marécaux, in this documentary in four parts of 52 minutes,
Outreau, a French nightmare
, signed Marika Mathieu, Camille Le Pomellec, Anna Kwak and Oron Adar.
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This affair, which has generated numerous books and films, never ceases to fascinate.
By the sordidness of the first revelations, then by the legal fiasco that it represented, by the question of the child's speech, finally, that it is essential to listen and hear while questioning and questioning it. intersecting.
“
Fortunately there are defense mechanisms otherwise we go crazy
.
If I have to have a thought, it is for the victims, who have been completely denied
.
»
Fabrice Burgaud
After the recent France Télévisions series, which offered the protagonists a mise en abyme mixing reality and fiction, this one has a more classic approach.
With the exception of a few images of the speakers facing models of the Fox Tower city (fortunately rare because without any contribution), it is mainly composed of archives, children's drawings, administrative documents and, above all, on-camera testimonies.
Judge Fabrice Burgaud, who was accused of having conducted an incriminating investigation, in quasi "partnership" with Myriam Badaoui, speaks there for the first time since the parliamentary commission of inquiry of 2006. Straight in his boots , without losing his distance, his coldness, he responds in a factual, technical way.
Those acquitted have always expected an apology or at least regret.
It won't be this time again.
“
Are you no longer asking yourself any questions? ”
», asks the journalist.
“
Fortunately there are defense mechanisms otherwise we go crazy,”
he finally admits, a little embarrassed.
If I have to have a thought, it is for the victims, who have been completely denied
.
»
Among them, Jonathan Delay, son of the Badaoui-Delay couple, who speaks here after having done so for France Télévisions and has never gone back on his statements for twenty years.
He concludes with these disturbing words: “
None of the accused should have been released from prison.
But that's just me, unfortunately.
..”