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Émile Louis (born 1934) is a retired French bus driver and prime suspect in the disappearance of seven young women in the département of Yonne, Burgundy, France, in the late 1970s. In 2000 Louis confessed to their murders; he retracted this confession one month later. 1934 was a common year starting on Monday (link will take you to calendar). ...
The French Republic or France (French: République française or France) is a country whose metropolitan territory is located in western Europe, and which is further made up of a collection of overseas islands and territories located in other continents. ...
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The départements (or departments) are administrative units of France, roughly analogous to British counties and are now grouped into 22 metropolitan and four overseas régions. ...
Yonne is a French département named after the Yonne River. ...
Coat of arms of the 2nd duchy of Burgundy and later of the French province of Burgundy Burgundy ( French: Bourgogne) is a historic region of France, inhabited in turn by Pre-Indo-European people, Celts ( Gauls), Romans ( Gallo-Romans), and various Germanic peoples, most importantly the Burgundians and the Franks. ...
1970 was a common year starting on Thursday. ...
2000 is a leap year starting on Saturday of the Gregorian calendar. ...
Louis is currently (since March 2004) serving a twenty-year jail sentence for the rape and torture of his last wife and of her daughter. He was also twice convicted of sexual attacks on minors: once in 1983 for which he was sentenced to four years in prison, and again in 1989 with a five-year jail term. 2004 : January - February - March - April - May - June - July - August - September - October - November - December Deaths • 08 Abu Abbas • 20 Queen Juliana • 28 Peter Ustinov • 30 Alistair Cooke More March 2004 deaths Ongoing events EU Enlargement Exploration of Mars: Rovers Haiti Rebellion Israeli-Palestinian conflict Occupation of Iraq Same-sex marriage in...
Rape is a crime wherein the victim is forced into sexual activity against his or her will, in particular sexual penetration. ...
Aspects of torture Incrimination of innocent people One well documented effect of torture is that with rare exceptions people will say or do anything to escape the situation, including untrue confessions and implication of others without genuine knowledge, who may well then be tortured in turn. ...
The term minor (from Latin smaller, lesser) has several meanings: Minor is a legal term for a young person, see Minor (law). ...
1983 is an integer and composite number that represents a common year starting on Saturday of the Gregorian calendar. ...
1989 is a common year starting on Sunday of the Gregorian calendar. ...
The Disappearances in the Yonne
Émile Louis is a prime suspect in the affair of the disappearances in the Yonne département, where 7 young women with light mental deficiencies disappeared between 1975 and 1980. The disappearances initially did not attract much attention as the girls had no close relatives and lived in homes for the handicapped; it was assumed that they had simply run away. Émile Louis confessed to the murder of the 7 girls in 2000 before retracting his statement. However, his statement led police to find the remains of two of the victims. Louis allegedly kidnapped the girls while driving a bus meant to transport them. 1975 was a common year starting on Wednesday (the link is to a full 1975 calendar). ...
1980 is a leap year starting on Tuesday. ...
2000 is a leap year starting on Saturday of the Gregorian calendar. ...
The case is highly controversial because of the many intriguing facts surrounding it.
One recurring question is how the justice system could have ignored this string of disappearances for so long, even though suspicions had grown and some official reports indicating probable foul play had been produced. In particular, gendarme Christian Jambert submitted a report in 1984 designating Émile Louis as prime suspect. On August 4, 1997, Jambert was found dead and judicial authorities found the cause to be suicide. However, an examination of the dead gendarme's skull on March 31, 2004, indicated that two bullets had entered the brain, and both should have instantly been fatal. This rules out suicide and indicates murder. Gendarmes guarding the Paris Hall of Justice Gendarmerie motorcyclists police the roads and autoroutes of rural France. ...
1984 is a leap year starting on Sunday of the Gregorian calendar. ...
August 4 is the 216th day of the year in the Gregorian Calendar (217th in leap years), with 149 days remaining. ...
1997 is a common year starting on Wednesday of the Gregorian calendar, and was designated the International Year of the Reef. ...
March 31 is the 90th day of the year in the Gregorian Calendar (91st in Leap years). ...
2004 is a leap year starting on Thursday of the Gregorian calendar. ...
In 1992, Pierre Charrier, the head of the Yonne APAJH association managing the home for handicapped young people where the disappeared girls were staying, was sentenced to six years in prison for raping a 23-year-old handicapped woman. Nine years before, Nicole Charrier, his spouse, had testified in favor of Émile Louis. In 2001, Nicole Charrier was removed from her management position at APAJH. 1992 is a leap year starting on Wednesday of the Gregorian calendar. ...
2001 is a common year starting on Monday of the Gregorian calendar. ...
The lack of reaction on the part of judicial authorities has led to suspicions that the blocking of enquiries was not out of negligence or incompetency, but because of the possible involvement of locally well-connected people in a network providing sadistic prostitution services. Flogging demonstration at Folsom Street Fair 2004. ...
One crucial issue in the legal treatment of Émile Louis's actions is prescription (the statute of limitations). Even if Émile Louis admitted to crimes committed in the late 1970s, it might be impossible to prosecute him. The Court of Cassation ruled that certain acts that before would not have been considered to be interrupting prescription, but in fact interrupted prescription. A statute of limitations is a statute in a common law legal system setting forth the maximum period of time, after certain events, that legal proceedings based on those events may begin. ...
The Cour de cassation is the main court of last resort in France. ...
Émile Louis's trial by the Yonne assize court for the seven murders started on November 3, 2004. On November 10, the court visited the location where the bodies of two victims, Madeleine Dejust and Jacqueline Weis, were exhumed after Louis confessed their location to the Gendarmerie. Émile Louis has retracted his confession and maintains his innocence. The Courts of Assize, or Assizes, were periodic criminal courts held around England and Wales until 1972, when together with the Quarter Sessions they were abolished by the Courts Act 1971 and replaced by a single permanent Crown Court. ...
November 3 is the 307th day of the year (308th in leap years) in the Gregorian Calendar, with 58 days remaining. ...
2004 is a leap year starting on Thursday of the Gregorian calendar. ...
List of alleged victims Madeleine Dejust, Chantal Gras, Bernadette Lemoine, Christine Marlot, Martine Renault, Jacqueline Weiss and Françoise Lemoine.
The spousal and statutory rape and torture case On March 26th, 2004, Émile Louis was sentenced by the assize court of the Var for the rape and torture of his second wife and his step-daughter to 20 years in prison, two-thirds of which are without parole. With this last disposition, the jury went beyond the requests of the prosecution. March 26 is the 85th day of the year in the Gregorian Calendar (86th in leap years). ...
2004 is a leap year starting on Thursday of the Gregorian calendar. ...
The Courts of Assize, or Assizes, were periodic criminal courts held around England and Wales until 1972, when together with the Quarter Sessions they were abolished by the Courts Act 1971 and replaced by a single permanent Crown Court. ...
Var is a département of southern France. ...
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Criminal law (also known as penal law) is the body of law that regulates governmental sanctions (such as imprisonment and/or fines) as retaliation for crimes against the social order. ...
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