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Sarkozy?s battle with the French magistrates

By Jonathan Simor

(Read Angelique Crisafis reporting in the Guardian here)Special report from Simon Grivet, ParisHer beautiful smile was everywhere. As soon as Laetitia?s disappearance appeared to be the result of a crime, her picture made front page news. She was an 18 year-old young woman living in Pornic, a small and tranquil seaside resort near Nantes. Hints of a tragedy soon accumulated as the police and gendarmerie intensified their search: her scooter was found, wrecked, on the side of the road; her boyfriend revealed text messages she sent the night of her disappearance in which she said she had been raped; moreover, the police finally arrested one Tony Meilhon, a 32-year-old marginal who had been seen with her the final night. Meilhon had a long record: at age 16 in jail he put a stick in the rectum of another inmate, sentenced for sexual crimes...continue to full post

Full post as published by Governing Through Crime on February 13, 2011 (boomark / email).