On the Court docket of Revision,
Solène Leprince was simply two years and one month outdated when she survived the worst. On the morning of September 5, 1994, her dad and mom and her two older sisters, Sandra and Audrey, 10 and 6 years outdated, have been found mendacity in swimming pools of blood at their residence in Sarthe. She, for some unknown cause, was saved. “I’ve no reminiscence of that evening,” confides the younger girl, now aged 33, earlier than the Court docket of Revision. His solely flash: that of being “within the arms of a person in a white coat, with flashing lights”, the subsequent morning.
His uncle, Dany Leprince, has lengthy been held answerable for this quadruple homicide of “unbelievable violence”, within the phrases of the latter’s lawyer, Me Missiva Chermak-Felonneau. He was sentenced to life in jail in 1996 and spent eighteen years behind bars. However yesterday’s certainties have wavered. And this Thursday, for the second timeil requests review of his conviction. An strategy supported by his niece and which finds the approval of the general advocate. “We aren’t assured, however decided,” confides Me Olivier Morice, other lawyer for Dany Leprince. Decided to place ahead new components and be the thirteenth in 80 years to acquire such a call.
The unpublished testimony, of a witness who noticed nothing
The unpublished testimony of Solène Leprince, now a mom, might weigh within the resolution which might be rendered in the beginning of July. Particularly whether it is accepted by the Court docket as a “new reality”, argues Me Olivier Morice. When the younger girl will get as much as strategy the microphone, time is suspended on this giant room with blue partitions and gold ornaments. A silence settles. Solène Leprince might have been spared, however at present she says she is “damaged to have misplaced (her) dad and mom and (her) sisters”. That is why she desires to know.
With out holding again her emotion, she expresses her “anger” within the face of the “grey areas” that stay. Beginning with the inconsistent and incriminating testimonies of Martine Compainthe ex-wife of Dany Leprince and their daughter Célia, 15 years outdated on the time. The legal professionals of the person who was lengthy nicknamed “the butcher of Sarthe” level out the absence of fabric proof or goal component permitting to show the presence of Dany Leprince on the scene of the crimes. What additionally in regards to the relationship that the kid’s nanny had with one of many gendarmes answerable for the investigation?
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“Why am I the one survivor of this tragedy? How can a single man commit 4 crimes together with two adults who might defend themselves? Why not have researched past household? Why have been Martine and Célia by no means questioned? Why is there no component on the chronology of the occasions? », Lists Solène Leprince.
“I used to be exploited”
And in all of this, “they needed to make me bear accountability,” the younger girl bitterly regrets. She has lengthy been introduced as a “key witness” within the case, dropped at testify regardless of her age. Nonetheless, “I’m not the sufferer of any trauma”. “If I had witnessed the homicide of my dad and mom, I might not be right here at present,” she insists. “I used to be exploited,” she denounces. She hopes for a brand new trial “to hunt the reality”.
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The totally different elements are all moving into the identical path. Granting this request could be “a small step for you, we’re not asking you to succeed in the moon, however an enormous step for justice, the first situation of humanity,” Alain Leprince’s lawyer finally ends up arguing. On the finish of the day, Dany Leprince’s voice rang out to repeat, for the umpteenth time: “I’m harmless.”
