The business Alegre is a French criminal case concerning Patrice Alegre, a French serial killer arrété in 1997, condemned on February 21st 2002 to the prison with perpetuity.

The business, strictly speaking, begins in May 2003 by reopening from the file by the gendarmes of the cell “Homicide 31” (charged cell, under the direction of Michel Roussel of 2000 with 2003, to inquire into the victims of Patrice Alegre).

Chronology

• September 1997: Arrest of Patrice Alegre, suspected of murder.

• Patrice Alegre recognizes 5 Meurtres and 6 Viols, but is also put in examination for 4 other murders.

• February 21st 2002: Patrice Alegre is condemned to twenty-two years of reclusion.

• At the beginning of May 2003, the Alegre business is only one fact various among others, relegated far inside the Parisian newspapers. Patrice Alegre is a killer condemned in 2002 to twenty-two years of reclusion for several Homicide S and Viol S. But, in Haute-Garonne, of the gendarmes of the cell “Homicide 31”, persuaded that all the light was not made on its criminal course, reopened the file.

• the 12 May 2003, the weekly magazine Marianne has the results of their investigations, in particular of recent “revelations” made by a Prostituée. She blames of the Toulouse Policier S, and a magistrate who “would be with the current of their intrigues: the system of corruption, but also of the “fine” parts organized in the presence of to less both Toulouse lawyers and other notable in the racing, the name of the Maire of Toulouse is even quoted”.

• Sunday, May 18, 2003 with the tv news of 20:00 of TF1, the former mayor of Toulouse, Dominique Baudis, President on this date of the Superior council of audio-visual the, gives to the business a maximum repercussion by revealing that its name is quoted in the investigation, and denounces one “frightening machination”, which would be according to him to attach “to the mediums related to pornographic industry ”.

• Monday, May 19, 2003, Dominique Baudis charges her lawyer with the continuations in Diffamation.

• Thursday, May 22, 2003, two prostitutes confirm their remarks in front of the judges, and a male prostitute, under the pseudonym of “Djamel” affirms that there were “deaths”.

• Tuesday, May 27, 2003, the prosecutor of Toulouse, announces that it is blamed in the business. He is replaced the 28.

• Friday, June 13, 2003, Dominique Baudis blames Jean-Michel Baylet, owner of the Dispatch of the South and denounces a machination again.

• Wednesday, September 17, 2003, the former prostitute “Fanny” reconsiders the charge of rape which she had formulated against the former mayor of Toulouse, Dominique Baudis.

• Saturday, September 20, 2003, the transvestite “Djamel”, implied as pilot in one of the aspects of the business is found died in the room of a private clinic of Toulouse.

• Monday, July 11, 2005, the room of the instruction of the Court of Appeal of Toulouse confirms the general withdrawal of case in the shutter “rapes and procuring” in which Dominique Baudis had been blamed.

• December 2005, Florence Khélifi, called Fanny, 32 years, is put in examination for libelous denunciation towards Mr. Baudis and the financial ex-substitute of the prosecutor, Marc Bourragué.

• September 2006, Christelle Bourre, alias Patricia, is put in examination mid-September for libelous denunciation towards Dominique Baudis.

Origin of the Baudis Business

September 5th, 1997, Patrice Alegre is stopped in Parisian suburbs. The evening even, Michel Roussel, investigator with the Research department of the Gendarmerie of Haute-Garonne, meets it for the first time. First face-to-face discussion of long series.

The obstinacy of the adjudant Michel Roussel, fearing that Patrice Alegre began her career from killer well before the murders for which it was judged, is at the origin of creation, in 2000, of the cell Homicide 31. Taming Patrice Alegre little by little and exhuming files forgotten, Michel Roussel manages to collect new elements sufficient so that it is put in examination in six new businesses of murder and rape.

But in spring 2003, any rocker. The meticulous person work of investigation of the gendarmes is put at evil by a media storm: the notable Toulouse ones are shown by prostitutes to have a bond with the activities of Patrice Alegre. If the media soufflé largely fell down since, the damage on the investigations concerning of the murders and disappearances unsolved is considerable. In front of the preoccupation with a “realignment” being worth general appeasing, Michel Roussel, rather than to only fight against the system, decided to leave the gendarmerie.

Beyond the names thrown in grazing ground, this business reveals the dysfunctions of the services of investigation and the justice, which could not prevent a serial killer from prevailing during more than one ten years.

Further information

The Alegre business, which is not summarized with the Baudis business, preserves remote regions: several witnesses declare that the killer was protected a long time by police officers like by a magistrate. The Roussel ex-gendarme counts 191 not elucidated assassinations. The organization “Stop with the lapse of memory” brings together victims' families, which continue to claim the truth on the business, and delivers an inventory of fixtures by enumerating “these disappearances, these assassinations camouflaged commits suicide some and these truncated investigations, deformations, bâclées, etc”

Other points of view, video testimony

Diane and Charles Roche, Lawyers of formation, deliver the detailed account of the exactions perpetrated at the time of “very special evenings” between notable which proceeded in the Toulouse region in which them father took part.

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