Friday, March 4, 2011

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Agnes Le Roux: revelations of a former mobster

Rebound in Case Agès Le Roux. A former gangster from Marseilles claims to know the true assassin of the heiress to a casino in Nice in 1977 killed. He was willing to testify in court to exonerate Jean-Maurice Agnelet, in an interview published Friday in Le Parisien.


Before the publication of a book of confessions, March 10, Jean-Pierre Hernandez told the newspaper that a friend of his thugs, Jack Lucchesi, had given him a few months before his death in 1987, he had killed the heir to the Palais de la Mediterranee, as part of a contract.


Miscarriage of justice?


If Mr. Hernandez, 75, made this confession late is, "he said, to exonerate the former lawyer Jean-Maurice Agnelet Nice, sentenced on appeal in 2007 to 20 years imprisonment for murder of his mistress, whose body was never found after being acquitted at trial. The Court of Cassation dismissed his appeal in 2008.


"Agnelet, I do not know, but this man does not deserve to stay in prison is a miscarriage of justice," says the former sponsor's near Marseilles Tany Zampa and the "French connection .




Credible testimony


François Saint-Pierre, a lawyer for Mr. Agnelet, believes that this testimony, he considers "very accurate" and " very credible, "is an" element "essential" in the case. He told AFP he would file "before the coming days," a petition for review in the Court of Cassation, with a request to release his client, aged 72, who is serving his sentence penitentiary Mauzac (Dordogne).


http://www.ouest-france.fr/actu/actuDet_-Affaire-Agnes-Le-Roux-les-revelations-d% E2% 80% 99A-former-truand_39382-1714884_actu . Htm

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