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Patrick Henry (born the March 31st 1953 with Troyes in France) is the murderer of Philippe Bertrand, then seven years old. He is known to have escaped with the Capital punishment after a pleading of Robert Badinter against the capital punishment.

Biography

The removal of Philippe Bertrand

The January 30th 1976, towards 12:30, with Troyes, it removes Philippe Bertrand, seven years old, at the exit of sound school. One hour later, it calls the parents of the child and a ransom of 1 frankly to them million asks for S.

It is not today possible to know when Patrick Henry killed Philippe Bertrand. He affirmed during the lawsuit that he strangled it by noting that its plan did not proceed as he had envisaged. However the investigation seems to show that he strangled it with a scarf as of his removal. It will make believe then during several days in the family of the child who it is always in life. During this time there, it left to the ski with friends, whereas the body of Philippe Bertrand was hidden in his apartment. He will on several occasions seek to recover the ransom.

The police force is interested very early in him. It will be put as a police custody during 47 hours, but it will not acknowledge anything. For lack of evidence, the police force will slacken it. It will pass then in front of the cameras of Télévision to say to which wants to hear it that it is innocent and that the true criminal deserves the Capital punishment to be itself taken about it with a child.

The February 17th 1976, the police force stops it with its hotel, it will indicate itself its bed by saying that the body of Philippe Bertrand is below.

The lawsuit

The lawsuit of Patrick Henry is certainly one of most famous of the French legal history. A rising of hatred in its opposition is created, amplified by its behavior in front of the television cameras after its first police custody. The majority of the leader-writers and the politicians claim the capital punishment for his crime.

As no lawyer agrees to defend it, Robert Bocquillon goes voluntary. He asks for the assistance of Robert Badinter, which is for some time one of the principal abolitionists of the capital punishment in France.

The lawsuit opens in January 1977, Robert Bocquillon is given the responsability to defend of best than it can Patrick Henry. Robert Badinter undertakes to make the lawsuit of the capital punishment. And after a pleading which made cry some sworn and with general stupor, Patrick Henry is condemned to the life imprisonment. He escapes the Guillotine thus.

Parole

During its detention, it will continue studies which it had stopped in fifth and thus passes in prison its BEPC, its Baccalauréat, a mathematical License of and a HAD in Informatique. For this reason, it makes figure of model of reintegration and request on several occasions its setting in parole, but each time the ministry for justice refuses its requests. It will be necessary to await the Loi on the presumption of innocence making it possible a regional jurisdiction to rule on the settings in paroles to see it released the May 15th 2001, following the decision of the April 26th 2001 of the regional court of Basse-Normandie. He is engaged by Charles Corlet, printer with Condé-sur-Noireau and Caen, in the Calvados.

In June 2002, it is stopped for a shoplifting in a supermarket; he is condemned to a fine of 2 000 euros.

In the night of the 5 to the October 6th 2002, it is arrété in Spain in possession of a little less than 10 kilograms of resin of Cannabis bought by him in Morocco in September 2002. After its extradition, its parole is cancelled and it is given in prison, finding its condition of condemned to perpetuity. The July 22nd 2003, it is condemned by the Magistrates' court of Caen to four years of prison, 20 000 euros of fine and the confiscation of sound 4x 4 qu ' it used to go to Morocco, thus enfreignant its parole.

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