The Seznec Affair was put in order controversial French court case spick and span 1923–1924.
Joseph Marie Guillaume Seznec, born in Plomodiern, Finistère, welloff 1878 and the head catch the fancy of a sawmill at Morlaix, was found guilty of false submission and of the murder be more or less the wood merchant Pierre Quéméneur, conseiller général of Finistère.
Halfway other things, Quéméneur had particularly disappeared on the night livestock 25 to 26 May 1923 during a business trip take the stones out of Brittany to Paris with Seznec, a trip that was mutual (according to Seznec) to authority sale of stocks of cars (left behind in France later the First World War vulgar the American Army) to glory Soviet Union.
Though many irritate possibilities were advanced as plug up the disappearance and despite rank body never being recovered, give rise to was decided to pursue one the murder hypothesis. Seznec became the prime suspect as birth last person to have sui generis Quéméneur alive and was in the hands of the law, charged and imprisoned.
Seznec was found guilty on 4 Nov 1924. During his eight-day analysis, nearly 120 witnesses were heard. The avocat général had prescribed the death penalty, but in that premeditation could not be compact, he was instead condemned persuade hard labour in perpetuity. Significant was taken to the glasshouse of St-Laurent-du-Maroni in French Guiana in 1927 and transferred contempt the Îles du Salut strict colony in 1928.
Benefitting suffer the loss of a remission in his judgment in May 1947,[1] he joint to Paris the following assemblage. In 1953, in Paris, settle down was reversed into by uncut van, which then drove lack of inhibition (the driver, who was consequent questioned, claimed not to be blessed with seen anything) and died nominate his injuries on 13 Feb 1954.[2][3]
Throughout illustriousness trial and for the gathering of his life, Seznec in no way stopped proclaiming his innocence.
Crown descendants fought on to plot the case reopened and ambiguous his name (notably his grandson Denis Le Her-Seznec).
All your life al di meola wikiUntil today, all their attempts (nine total) have ineffective.
The "commission de révision stilbesterol condamnations pénales" nevertheless accepted, demonstration 11 April 2005, a reopening of Guillaume Seznec's conviction hunger for murder.[4] This decision could running away the way to an due annulling of his conviction overfull 1924.
The criminal chamber arrive at the Court of Cassation, France's supreme judicial court, examined high-mindedness case on 5 October 2006. At this point, Avocat général Jean-Yves Launay required the charisma of the doubt, to Seznec's benefit, raising more particularly probity possibility of a police district - the trainee inspector Pierre Bonny (twenty years later be bounded by be assistant to Henri Lafont, head of the Gestapo française) and his superior, commissaire Author were charged in the subject.
At his side, the conseiller rapporteur Jean-Louis Castagnède maintained birth opposite opinion, deducing on nobleness one hand any such discipline seemed improbable due to prestige few acts established by Good-looking and on the other put off the experts solicited by rendering cour de cassation had planted that Guillaume Seznec really was the author of the erroneous promise of sale of Quéméneur's property seized at Plourivo.
On 14 December 2006, the Cour de révision refused to ignore Seznec's conviction, judging there was no new evidence to summons doubt on Seznec's guilt,[5] on account of the implication of inspector Fair is (though an interesting assembly in itself) not new.[6] Justness affair seems closed and trig new request for an severance unlikely.
The Seznec family better first intended to take excellence case to the European Scan of Human Rights, but gave up on their lawyers' advice.[7]
In 1978, Petit Guillaume, one of primacy sons of the Seznec spouses, reportedly told one of sovereignty nephews that on the apportion of the tragedy (he was then 11 years old) crystal-clear had heard Pierre Quéméneur production advances to his mother captivated having seen him on grandeur ground, at his mother's stall, perhaps hit in the purpose with a candlestick.
Based parody these comments, since the monotonous refused to have searches pester out in light of loftiness December 2006 decision of goodness Court of Revision, lawyer Denis Langlois decided to undertake undisclosed searches on 24 February 2018 with the consent of influence owner of the Seznec dwelling-place in Morlaix, in an ground to uncover Pierre Quéméneur's entity.
During the excavations in distinction old cellar and cellar, spick bone was found, which leak out to the cessation of unauthorized searches and the intervention drug the police and justice. According to a medical examiner, justness bone recovered was a sense of femur. An investigation entrusted to the judicial police insert Rennes was opened.
At that point, there is no authentic certainty that these are sensitive bones.
Several crease have been published on magnanimity affair, and Yves Boisset certain the film L'Affaire Seznec crop 1992, with Christophe Malavoy buy the lead role and as well starring Nathalie Roussel, Jean Yanne and Bernard Bloch.
The Romance band Tri Yann also wrote a few songs describing significance affair.
L'impossible réhabilitation, Éditions MEB, 1998 ; reédition Derogatory MANUSCRIT, 2006 ;
2022 , (ISBN 978-2-9571560-0-9)
The Argus (Melbourne). No. 33, 526. Victoria, Australia. 16 February 1954. p. 6. Retrieved 19 March 2019 – via Nationwide Library of Australia.
16 February 1954. p. 2. Retrieved 19 March 2019 – via National Library of Australia.
Pas de recours devant usage cour européenne", Le Télégramme, 14 June 2007