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Patrice Alègre, considered too dangerous by experts, renounces his request for release

2021-03-09T15:59:03.848Z


After 22 years in prison, the Toulouse serial killer had applied for parole in September 2019. He finally


"The risk of taking action could quickly be comparable to the risks that existed before his imprisonment", estimate the psychiatric experts who met Patrice Alègre in June and September 2020. After having filed in September 2019 a first request for parole, At the end of his safety period of 22 years in prison, the Toulouse serial killer has finally thrown in the towel, withdrawing from this request after an extremely unfavorable psychiatric expertise and the refusal of a second opinion.

Sentenced on February 21, 2002 to life imprisonment for six rapes, one attempted murder and five murders, Patrice Alègre therefore remains in detention at the Moulins (Allier) plant.

It all started in the summer of 2019, when a Canadian, who has been seeing the killer for two years, now 52, ​​contacted her lawyer, Me Pierre Alfort, to request this parole.

Patrice Alègre having been imprisoned in 1997, the safety sentence came to an end in 2019. “Obviously, this woman is a good start to reintegration, but we must also look at her psychological and psychiatric development to say whether or not it is dangerous, assures Me Alfort, who saw the serial killer recently in prison for this request for a modification of the sentence.

“I believe that we must not destroy hope, the hope of reintegration for Patrice Alègre as well, whatever the extreme gravity of the acts he may have committed.

What is certain is that a sentence enforcement judge will only take a favorable decision with maximum guarantees, notes the lawyer.

As it stands, today the guarantees are not maximum.

The fact that he was in a relationship, that he had professional projects was not enough.

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"An absence of empathy and real guilt"

After 23 years in detention, Patrice Alègre has aged, he is graying, according to his advice, which confides that "the man has evolved positively in prison".

Arguments that did not convince the psychiatric experts who examined him.

"Mr. Alègre has a psychopathic personality with a history of alcoholism, poly-drug addiction, with an absence of empathy and a real feeling of guilt", underlines the report.

“On a clinical level, the risk in the short and medium term is the resumption of its various uses.

His behavior may be dictated by the personality disorders previously described, experts note.

He is fully aware of the criminal nature and the gravity of the acts committed.

However, this does not lead to a real feeling of guilt.

In general, his relationships with women are a risk factor that was probably increased by his alcohol and drug consumption.

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"If I understood correctly, they consider him incurable"

This expertise pointing to a significant risk of recidivism does not surprise his lawyer, who recalls that the serial killer was however entitled to request this adjustment of sentence.

He learned on Saturday March 6 that Patrice Alègre had written to the judge to withdraw his request.

Me Alfort wonders, however, about the rejection of his request for a second opinion in January.

"The question I ask myself is to what extent we can gauge the guilt of the individual, having seen him twice for a few hours," he said.

I do not agree with this expert report, which is also why I asked for a new one, also, and above all, given the extremely particular personality of Patrice Alègre and the seriousness of the facts for which he is accused.

A new expert could have provided more precise information on the evolution of this man.

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The expert report notes above all that the Toulouse killer is not accessible to treatment, questioning his real possibility of reintegration.

A surprising conclusion for his advice.

“It seems to me that when one has committed acts for which it has been accused and has been convicted, care seems to be required.

This is not the opinion of the psychiatrists who consider him, if I understood correctly, as incurable and that, it is quite surprising and quite despairing as for the evolution of the human being, Patrice Alègre in the occurrence.

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Source: leparis

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