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“We didn’t believe in children.” The Outreau case, or how to separate fact from fiction

Thierry Delay and Miriam Badaoui (twenty-fifteen years in prison), were convicted after the first trial in 2004.
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More than the name of a town in northern France, Outreau is a legal disaster of the 2000s. Pedophilia, violence, false testimony, real victims… a Netflix documentary dissects the case of this monster.

“Today, when I think about it, I wonder if it really happened. The Fox Tower, where it all happened, has disappeared. He was completely shaved, it has a strange effect,” confides Dominique Will, a priest-worker at Outro, who spent two and a half years in prison after being falsely accused of child abuse. There are characters in this story that no one would dare to depict in fiction, because they border on caricature. We include, among others, an incest and mythic woman, an overzealous, arrogant and gullible young investigating judge, complicit child abuse neighbors, bruised children, many real victims and many more fake victims.

To understand how this incredible scenario came about, we have to go back twenty-seven years to the Renard Tower, the HLM building in the heart of Outreau, a suburb south of Boulogne-sur-Mary, in the Pas-de-de-la-Mer. Kale. The Delay family lives on the fifth floor. Father Thierry, a tyrant…

Source: Le Figaro

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