Affaire Paul Voices

The Paul business Voices , of the name of a pensioner born in 1930, is a fact various which held a certain importance in the French presidential election of 2002.

Facts

The April 18th 2002 (that is to say three days before the first turn of the French presidential election), Paul Voices, peaceful reprocessed appreciated by all its neighbors, is attacked in his hovel which is used to him as dwelling with Orleans. Two young non-indentifiés individuals would have tried to hold to ransom it, then coiled it blows, and set fire to its house before escaping.

The following day, the April 19th, the newspaper of 20:00 of TF1 gives a report on this fact various. The images of the tumefied face and the tears of Paul Voise upset whole France and cause a wave of indignation vis-a-vis the delinquency. The proposals for assistances to the rebuilding of the house of the old man are launched in great number.

The April 20th, TF1 reconsiders very lengthily in its tv news this history, just as France 2. This aggression exceeds the stage of the fact then various, and quickly becomes the symbol of the businesses of insecurity in France, which was one of the main themes of battle in the countryside of the presidential election.

With elimination with the 1st turn of Lionel Jospin and the surprise caused by a second turn who opposes Jean-Marie Le Pen vis-a-vis Jacques Chirac, much of people overexploitation and the media fad criticize then on the topic of the insecurity, not only in the case of the Voise business, but also on many reports going in this direction lasting the weeks and the months preceding the April 21st 2002.

Continuations of the business

The investigation in the aggression of Paul Voices forever emerged.

The February 28th 2003, an young man was put in examination, then slackened. The February 18th 2005, the judge of Orleans pronounces a withdrawal of case in favor of this suspect because the loads selected were according to him insufficient.

In May 2004, Paul Voise moved in a new house, built with the gifts which were received and thanks to a subsidy of the town of Orleans. But of the health issues quickly led it to a hospitalization in autumn 2004, then with its placement in an old people's home to Lailly-in-Valley in January 2005.

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