Sunday, April 10, 2011

A cold blood in a French village

The story could have been signed in mid Truman Capote and Norman Mailer: the cold blooded murder of a family and an executioner's song dubbed 'the eternal guilty' but whose guilt over a decade later, is still in doubt. The French version of the real story that Capote was occurred in 1994. As in the book, a family was brutally murdered in a small town of 1,500 inhabitants.

In this case the Klutter family farm is located in the countryside of northern France (La Sarthe). On the morning of September 5 the family's nanny Leprince discovered the bodies of marriage and two children stabbed and sewn. The baby escaped the massacre only the couple, two years since then under the tutelage of a caregiver.

The incident, quickly dubbed "the slaughter of South Thorigné Dué" shocked the small town and attracted hundreds of journalists, who stood guard outside the house of the maid. Days after the murder the father's brother, who lived in the house opposite, was arrested and four years later, after a procedure with many dark areas, was sentenced to life imprisonment by the quadruples death.

Since then half of France called him "Danny, the eternal guilty 'and the other half' the murderer of the Sarthe." The former believe in his innocence. The latter, in his guilt. And is that the summary of the Affaire Leprince is most bizarre: the absence of physical evidence, testimony confusing contradictions in the version of the woman accused ...

The conviction rests on evidence and statements of the surviving baby, and a woman today. "When we started talking I said" Dany is bad, stick to mom, '"he assured the assistant Gallo told the newspaper Libération. Leprince The tragedy did not end with the assassination of marriage, the mother of victim and executioner committed suicide in 2007 .

The event that revolutionized the editors of events a decade ago is now on tenterhooks legal reporters. Having spent 16 years behind bars the Court decided to review the case in 2010 with new evidence casting doubt on the guilt of Leprince and he was paroled. After months of deliberation, this week the Court of Revision of criminal convictions of France has returned to prison.

Much has happened since then but the gruesome murder continues to feed the curiosity across the border. The press speculates on the guilt of Leprince. He knows the attraction raises the horrifying story. In fact, it already has to its own capes ('Between 20 and 23 hours' is the title of this modern version of 'In Cold Blood') and has even shot a documentary film.

A decade later the two farms, home of the alleged victim and executioner, they have new owners, but remain the most photographed picture of this unknown people.

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