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| Suicide Brings Scrutiny to French Prison System |
| By guardian.co.uk |
| Published: 02/22/2010 |
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France's overburdened and dysfunctional prison system has come under renewed scrutiny after one of the country's most notorious detainees killed himself in his cell just months after escaping from his first jail in a cardboard box. Jean-Pierre Treiber, a 46-year-old former forest ranger suspected of murdering a lesbian couple in 2004, was found dead in his cell at Fleury Mérogis prison, south of Paris, on Saturday morning. Doctors said he appeared to have hanged himself. The families of the dead women today expressed their incredulity that Treiber, who had always protested his innocence despite a raft of incriminating evidence, would never see his alleged actions judged before the law. A trial had been due to begin in April. "I am devastated. I am furious and devastated," Roland Giraud, the father of Géraldine Giraud, whose body was found alongside that of her girlfriend, Katia Lherbier, in a well in Treiber's garden over six years ago. Read More. |
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