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The rumor that the Keeper of the Seals “terrorized” a “7-year-old” child during a hearing has been circulating since his appointment to the government and has resurfaced in recent days in favor of the France 2 series devoted to the case. from Outreau.
More than twenty years later, here is the Outreau affair once more at the heart of the news. Through the four episodes of its mini-series, France 2 returned, during the month of January, to this vast and complex legal case, often described as «fiasco», which resulted in four final convictions as well as the acquittal of thirteen people. The opportunity to see reappear, on social networks, an insistent rumor involving the current Keeper of the Seals, Eric Dupond-Moretti, who would have terrorized a little girl at the bar, to the point that she would have urinated on it in full hearing. At the time, the media lawyer, who would earn his reputation in Outreau “northern ogre”, defended Roselyne Godard, presented as “the Baker” – in reality itinerant seller of confectionery and manager of a bread depot –, questioned and then acquitted.
This story is also found in a petition launched in mid-January by Jonathan Delayone of the child victims of the couple Thierry Delay-Myriam Badaoui, who calls for a boycott of the France 2 series. Judging that the event series, in which he testifies, presents the “adults c
