Christine Villemin, mother of Grégory, November 12, 1993 in Dijon (Côte-d’Or). MOREAU MICHEL/SIPA
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Archives “Everyone’s heads went off, the gendarmes, Judge Lambert, the journalists, and even the experts,” wrote the journalist François Caviglioli in the fall of 1993, when the trial of Jean-Marie Villemin.
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On October 16, 1984, the body of Grégory Villemin, 4 years old, was discovered bound hand and foot in Vologne (Vosges). Forty years later, the affair which became a media and legal fiasco remains unresolved. The great reporter François Caviglioli followed her for “le Nouvel Observateur”; his article “Villemin: how justice drowned” appeared on December 9, 1993. Here it is.
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Those who know have said nothing, will never say anything…
Villemin: how justice was drowned
A gossip trial with missing evidence, documents that have disappeared, a stammering judge and confused journalists… And the murder of a child has resulted in a terrible legal mess. Narrative
It was Jean-Marie Villemin who killed Bernard Laroche, but it is still Christine who is judged before the Dijo court…
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