One dead, thirteen acquitted on seventeen accused and totalling 26 years of pre-trail detention, destroyed families, ruined carrers, unsettled children, and missing parents. However during five years of trial, the speech of the « thirteen from Outreau » never changed a bit. The same defence, the same resistance, the same innocence. They will have been expecting and suffering five years to be cleared. How and why did we come to this ?
From the archives footage of the parliamentary committee to the one of the facts themselves and back to the committee, we will try to analyse, without bias but also without weakness, the process of this « mechanic » and what it says about our society. Both on the justice, social and media context at the time, and human.
From the archives footage of the parliamentary committee to the one of the facts themselves and back to the committee, we will try to analyse, without bias but also without weakness, the process of this « mechanic » and what it says about our society. Both on the justice, social and media context at the time, and human.
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