By akademiotoelektronik, 18/11/2022

Jacques Rançon and the lost victims

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The man committed two murders and was sentenced at first instance for a third.Are there others?Some elements disturb the investigators ...

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The lawyer general, Anne-Laure Sandretto, did not want to leave any room for doubt."At no time and for no victim, Jacques Rançon arrived and said:" I need to satisfy my conscience.There were others."Each time, he is wrong, he forgets to say things, he lies ..." On June 12, at the Assises de la Somme, in Amiens, the sixties were sentenced for the murder and rape of Isabelle Mesnage,committed in 1986 (read episode 4, "ransom: thirty years in the shade and a doubt").He says he is innocent and called on the verdict, but this conviction could raise new sides of his criminal career.Didier Seban, the lawyer for the Mesnage family, had also promised him at the end of the trial: "We will see each other.»»

An element has been mentioned several times by the parties during the hearings. Sur la scène de crime (lire l’épisode 3, « Isabelle Mesnage, la désoubliée»»), à quelques mètres du corps à moitié dénudé et mutilé d’Isabelle Mesnage, les enquêteurs ont trouvé un bâton.80 centimeters of mystery. « L’une des extrémités était effritée et, sur plusieurs centimètres, le bâton était couvert d’une substance marron, sûrement du sang»», a rapporté un ancien gendarme lors du procès.No analysis was carried out on this index.In 1986, scientific police techniques have not yet been able to: scrutinizing the stick amounts to destroying it.In 2018, the seals have disappeared, the stick and the truth with.

"Even if it was the time of Cro-Magnon, as we suggest, we could have done biological analyzes, however hammered Xavier Capelet, one of Jacques Rançon's lawyers.The problem in this investigation is that we started from the end to arrive at the start.We started from the intuition that Jacques Rançon was guilty.»» Ce bâton intrigue en effet davantage que sa présence est éludée.