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L'écrivain français Gilles Perrault, dont le roman " Le pull-over rouge " a suscité en France une polémique majeure sur la peine capitale, est décédé jeudi à Sainte-Marie-du-Mont (Manche), a annoncé aujourd'hui sa famille. Il avait 92 ans. "Je peux confirmer qu'il est décédé hier soir, le 3 août, d'un arrêt cardiaque", a déclaré l'un de ses proches à l'AFP. Né Jacques Peyroles, il avait travaillé pendant plusieurs années comme avocat avant de devenir journaliste puis romancier, publiant sous le pseudonyme de Gilles Perrault.

French writer Gilles Perrault, whose "Le Pull-Over Rouge" novel helped spark debate over capital punishment in France, has died, his family said on Thursday. He was 92. "I can confirm that he died at 92 last night on August 3 from cardiac arrest", a source in his family told AFP. Born as Jacques Peyroles, he worked for several years as a lawyer before becoming a journalist and then a novelist, writing under the pseudonym Gilles Perrault.  In 1978, he published " Le Pull-Over Rouge " (The Red Sweater), which called into question the conviction of a man, Christian Ranucci, who had been put to death by beheading two years prior for the abduction and killing of an eight-year-old girl in 1974.

Valéry Giscard d'Estaing, France's president from 1974 to 1981, has died at the age of 94. He died of complications from coronavirus, surrounded by his family at his estate in central France. A center-right, pro-Europe politician, Giscard d'Estaing also liberalized laws on divorce, abortion, and contraception during his seven years in power.

Christian Ranucci, condenado en 1976 por el asesinato de la niña María Dolores Rambla, fue uno de los últimos ejecutados en Francia. El caso sigue provocando debate. ➤ Click here to Google translate this article into your own language

➙ Click here to Google translate the following text into your own language. Le procès médiatisé de Christian Ranucci — né le 6 avril 1954 à Avignon et mort le 28 juillet 1976 (à 22 ans) à Marseille — s'est conclu par la condamnation à mort et l'exécution par décapitation de celui-ci aux Baumettes pour l'enlèvement et le meurtre, le 3 juin 1974, de la petite Marie-Dolorès Rambla, âgée de huit ans. Il est le premier condamné à mort guillotiné sous le septennat de Valéry Giscard d'Estaing et l'antépénultième en France.  En 1978, un livre, intitulé Le Pull-Over rouge , est publié sur l'affaire par l'écrivain et journaliste Gilles Perrault, faisant émerger une polémique concernant sa culpabilité. Plusieurs ouvrages reprennent par la suite la thèse de l'innocence de Ranucci et de l'erreur judiciaire, tandis que d'autres ouvrages et articles cherchent au contraire à démontrer sa culpabilité, en s'appuyant notamment sur les éléments mat...

Christian Ranucci a été guillotiné le 28 juillet 1976 dans l'enceinte de la prison des Baumettes, à Marseille. Click here to automatically translate this article into your own language. Geneviève Donadini a fait partie du jury populaire dans le procès de Christian Ranucci*, accusé du meurtre de la petite Marie-Dolorès Rambla, 8 ans. Le jeune homme de 22 ans a été condamné et exécuté sous le couperet de la guillotine le 28 juillet 1976. Le cas restera célèbre et rebaptisé "affaire du pull-over rouge". Geneviève Doradini raconte, sans révéler son vote (elle n'en a pas le droit), comment elle a vécu, désemparée, son rôle de jurée avec une issue aussi terrible. Je n’ai pas le droit de dire si j’ai glissé un bulletin "oui" ou "non" dans l’urne, mais j’ai participé à un vote dont l’issue a été la décapitation d’un homme. Il avait 22 ans. Il s’appelait Christian Ranucci . Certes, son procès n’aura duré que deux jours – inimaginable aujourd...

The following document is a firsthand account of the final moments of Hamida Djandoubi, a convicted murderer executed by guillotine at Marseille’s Baumettes Prison on September 10, 1977. The record—dated September 9—was written by Monique Mabelly, a judge appointed by the state to witness the proceedings. Djandoubi’s execution would ultimately be the last carried out in France before capital punishment was abolished in 1981. At the time, President Valéry Giscard d'Estaing—who had publicly voiced his "deep aversion to the death penalty" prior to his election—rejected Djandoubi’s appeal for clemency. Choosing to let "justice take its course," the President allowed the execution to proceed, just as he had in two previous cases during his term:   Christian Ranucci , executed on July 28, 1976 and Jérôme Carrein , executed on June 23, 1977. Hamida Djandoubi , a Tunisian national, was sentenced to death for killing his former lover, Elisabeth Bousquet. He was execu...

In an interview to be aired this week on French television, former French President Valéry Giscard d'Estaing, 84, says that he feels "no regrets" for allowing the execution of Christian Ranucci in 1976.  Christian Ranucci , 22, was guillotined after he was convicted of kidnapping and killing 8-year-old Marie-Dolorès Rambla. Ranucci proclaimed his innocence until he was executed at dawn in Marseilles' Beaumettes prison. His last words were to his lawyers: 'Rehabilitate me!', he said. "Ranucci was guilty, he had been sentenced to death by a jury, the punishment needed to be carried out," the former President says about the controversial Ranucci case. "I do not regret my decision. The case files (...) and the trials proved that he was guilty," the former French President says in the interview. A tight election race, high pro-death penalty ratings in opinion polls after similar abduction-and-murder cases occurred in France contributed t...