A face on a 36-year-old cold case.
Joël Bourgeon, 58, has been appearing since Friday July 1 before the Haute-Garonne Assize Court for the murder of Martine Escadeillas on December 8, 1986, a secretary who disappeared in Ramonville, south of Toulouse.
Of average height and puny appearance, this 50-year-old declared at the start of the proceedings "that he is innocent" of the facts with which he is accused.
Imperturbable in the box, the accused expresses himself well, with clarity, and had no look or emotion in the presence of his mother, his half-brother, his wife and his two daughters in the front row.
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