Agnelet: l'homme que l'on n'aimait pas [French]

By Michel Henry

Maurice Agnelet: guilty without evidence. When Agn s Le Roux, aged 29, disappears on November 1st 1977, her lover, Maurice Agnelet, becomes the prime suspect. But there is no case against him.The police enquiry falters. Agnelet is charged and incarcerated, but then in 1985 the case is dismissed due to lack of evidence. The lawsuit seems over, but then legal proceedings begin all over again. Agnelet is accused once more in 2000, then acquitted in 2006 on the basis of reasonable doubt. Finally, the case turns against him. In 2007, the appeals court sentences him to twenty years' imprisonment for the murder of Agn s Le Roux thirty years after her mysterious disappearance. Yet no recognised, objective or conclusive evidence has been found. The investigation was faulty, the body was never found, and the circumstances of the alleged crime remain unclear. The accusation is based solely on Agnelet's scheming personality and on his bizarre, contradictory behaviour.The Agn s Le Roux case now known as the Agnelet case leads us to re-examine the way justice is meted out. How much evidence is necessary to sentence a human being? Not much, it would seem, and that is the major failing of the French judicial system. Maurice Agnelet has now placed his fate in the hands of the final Court of Appeal, which is yet to rule on his request for a retrial. Will the 70-year-old Agnelet be granted a thI'd trial? Set in the world of gambling and casinos, this is an account of an appalling miscarriage of justice (no corpse was ever found).A journalist at the French daily Lib ration since 1985, Michel Henry specialises in legal affairs and in courtroom reporting. At present he is the paper's regional correspondent for Marseille and for the Provence-C te d'Azur region.

• Format: Paperback
• Language: French
• ISBN: 2738122094
• ISBN13: 9782738122094
• Release Date: September 2008
• Publisher: Odile Jacob
• Length: 318 Pages
• Weight: 0.81 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.7" x 5.5" x 8.5"