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Here's this week's case!

Sometimes, an incompetent man is the worst thing that can happen to you...

https://www.murderwinecheese.com/post/jean-claude-bonnal-a-small-time-thug-and-a-great-tragedy

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First, Jean-Paul was a sad kid who got abandoned by his parents.

Then, he was a little shit spoiled rotten by his grandma.

Then, he became a rapist.

Prison didn't deter him. When he got out, he became a killer.

Patricia & Christelle would probably have become nice women driven by their desire to do better. We'll never know, all because of a man who always did worse.

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Hello, this week I dive into the story of a wife who sacrificed two lives for a fleeting passion.

https://www.murderwinecheese.com/post/danielle-doyonnas-and-patrick-sarrasin-a-murderous-passion

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Hi guys, today I share with you the absurd story of a self-proclaimed "druid" murdering his friend for no reason.

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Hi guys, this week I tell you about the case of an unfortunate encounter with a man who never did anything good that cost the life of an innocent girl doing her best.

This case pissed me off while I was writing it, so I'm curious to see if you're going to feel the same...

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Hi, it's been a while! Here are updates on cases previously covered on Murder, Wine & Cheese!

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On December 6th 1989, fourteen young women, many of them engineering students, were murdered in the mass shooting at Montreal’s École Polytechnique that was prompted by the killer’s hatred of women and what he said was “fighting feminism”.   On December 6, the National Day of Remembrance and Action on Violence Against Women, we remember: Geneviève Bergeron Hélène Colgan Nathalie Croteau Barbara Daigneault Anne-Marie Edward Maud Haviernick Maryse Laganière Maryse Leclair Anne-Marie Lemay Sonia Pelletier Michèle Richard Annie St-Arneault Annie Turcotte Barbara Klucznik-Widajewicz

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Thierry Devé-Oglou or the D train murder

Hi guys, I hope you're doing well ! The case is pretty short this week, so I figured I would just post it directly. Without further ado, here's the Anne-Lorraine Schmitt murder case !

Thierry

Thierry Devé-Oglou was born in the 60s. His parents are Armenian, and he has a brother and a sister. He’s described as a nice, sensitive kid.

He grows up being overprotected, to the point where he can’t handle being away from his family. He even deserts his military service.

As an adult, Thierry doesn’t leave the Louvres family home. He doesn’t have many friends, and his love life is pretty much nonexistent. He compensates this lack of relationships by consuming a lot of pornographic material and visiting sex workers very often.

Regarding his professional life, he works as a handler for a wood dealer, and his colleagues find him very intellectually limited, some one of them going as far as calling him “Forrest Gump”.

So far, Thierry justs seems like your average mediocre guy, and I wish he was just that, but he’s not. He’s also a maniac.

The first assault

In January 1995, Thierry stumbles upon a lone woman in the D train. He threatens her with a knife and forces her to give him oral sex. Once he is done, he gets mad at himself, bangs his head against the train doors, apologizes to his victim and offers her money (which she refuses) before fleeing.

He did a whole lot when the option to not assault this woman was right there but anyway…

His victim immediately goes to the authorities, and with the help of some gendarmes, she starts roaming the D line everyday looking for her attacker. On day 8, she finds him.

Thierry is arrested and eventually sentenced in February 1996 to 5 years in prison with 2 years imprisonment. He is released in February 1997.

Anne-Lorraine

In 2007, Anne-Lorraine Schmitt is 23 years old. She grew up in a conservative catholic household with strong values upheld by her father, who is a general in the military.

She is studying journalism at the Sorbonne university, and works on the side as a monitor in the Maison d’Education de la Légion d’Honneur (Education Home of the Legion of Honor), where she previously studied.

She is described as a brilliant, friendly and joyful woman who holds her religion close to her heart. She has a beautiful life ahead of her, but sadly it’s all about to end in the most brutal manner.

The murder

On November 25th, 2007, Anne-Lorraine Schmitt is found severely wounded in a D train stopped at the Creil train station. She has sustained 34 stab wounds, and is pronounced dead soon after.

Thierry Devé-Oglou is quickly identified as her attacker (thanks to DNA evidence according to some sources), and is arrested not long after. He first denies everything and says that the injuries investigators found on him were due to him being attacked in Louvres, but he eventually admits that he found Anne-Lorraine alone in a train car, tried to rape her at knifepoint, and started stabbing her when she fiercely resisted.

After that confession, he is indicted.

The political exploitation

The case immediately makes national news, and the far-right gets involved, denouncing an “immigrant criminal”.

The government also starts to act. The president at the time, Nicolas Sarkozy, has built his platform on preventing recidivism (with a particular focus on minority groups), so this case falls right into his wheelhouse. In February 2008, a law allowing post-sentence preventive detention is adopted. Basically, this law allows judges to detain high-risk offenders in a secured facility after they finish their sentence.

During the same period, Philippe Schmitt, Anne-Lorraine’s father, puts a lot of pressure on the judicial system, creating tensions with Thierry’s defense team, the Syndicat de la Magistrature (one of the magistrates’ unions), and psychiatry experts. The president of the Syndicat de la Magistrature at the time, Françoise Martres, even puts Philippe’s picture on the “Mur des Cons”, which translates to “Wall of Assholes”, where people who have run afoul of the union are displayed.

Philippe has allies though. Among them is Jean-Pierre Escarfail, one of serial killer Guy Georges’ victims’ father, and the Institute for Justice, a far-right think tank advocating against the “laxity” of the French justice system.

Basically, everybody has political guns pointed at each other, and the whole country is on edge.

The trial

Thierry Devé-Oglou’s trial begins in December 2010 in Pontoise. Surprisingly, there is nothing worth mentioning regarding this trial, except the fact that the defense tried to argue that the attack didn’t last that long, “5 minutes at best”. Like…bitch ???? Is this supposed to be a mitigating factor ?

Anyway, Thierry is sentenced to life without the possibility of parole for 22 years, and doesn’t appeal. Byyyyyyyye !

After the case

In 2009 (that’s not technically after the case, but I didn’t know where else to put it), the Defense Journalists Association creates the Anne-Lorraine Schmitt prize to reward young journalists working on subjects regarding defense and global security.

Since 2008, the post-sentence preventive detention law has been applied less than 100 times. It is still heavily criticized for allowing imprisonment for crimes that have not yet been committed.

In 2018, during the height of the #MeToo movement, French author Catherine Millet declares in an interview that Anne-Lorraine would have survived her attack if she hadn’t defended herself and clung on to her “rigid Christian values”. For context, this is a woman who also declared that she wishes she had been raped and signed a manifesto advocating for men’s right to bother women on the street. So…not the brightest bulb in the bunch.

In 2019, Philippe Schmitt sues Françoise Martres for displaying him on the “Mur des Cons”, and wins.

To this day, far-right activists use this case to argue that immigrants and children of immigrants are all criminals.

That’s all for this case, and I’ll see you with the next one !

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palestine masterpost-masterpost

i've been trying my best to collect a bunch of links to other, more structured resources about the genocide in gaza, and what you, reading this, can do about it, that i'm going to compile here.

DON'T SCROLL PAST. LOOK THROUGH THE LINKS. REBLOG.

less and less people are talking about gaza every day, but it is still a very real crisis.

education, donations, speaking out, global links (masterpost)

links to contextual articles

for americans - state/congressional contacts

how you can help palestine - donations, petitions, campaigns, upcoming protests (masterpost)

non-politically motivated charity links

canary mission

petitions and congressional contact (masterpost)

education, current news, taking action, direct action and donations, current protests (masterpost)

small monetary actions

2700 ebooks on israel and palestine, available for free

thorough article by storiesfromgaza, dated 10/30/23

targeted boycott + bds

how to find state/congressional contacts, bds, email template, donation links

sudan and congo

egypt, us/uk/canada/europe congressional contacts

direct links to help palestine

educate yourself (twitter links)

translating gaza (instagram link)

bds/targeted boycott information

compilation of palestine info and how to support it (masterpost), dated 10/28/23

latest info as of 11/3/23 and large amounts of immediate action to take (masterpost)

history of palestine and israel - articles, books, films, social media (masterpost)

socials to follow

journalists in north gaza

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Gilles, Léo and Sylvain

Gilles was a 45-year-old teacher.

Léo was a 73-year-old grandmother.

Sylvain was a 32-year-old cameraman.

They were simple people doing their best. They didn't survive their encounter with Jacquy Haddouche, a broken man determined to break everyone and everything else around him.

Read the full story here :

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Isabelle Le Nénan was a 20-year-old sales representative.

Isabelle Christophe was an employee at a supermarket. She was 21.

Bernadette Bour was a 40-year-old medical sales representative.

These three women were murdered at the beginning of the 1990's by a man who became the youngest French serial killer at the time : Vincenzo Aiutino.

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Didier Tallineau liked women until they rejected him (like many men, sadly). He got away with murder for 10 years, and only served 7 years of his sentence before dying of cancer in prison.

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Francis Evrard assaulted young boys for almost the entirety of his life. It's only when he abducted 5-year-old Enis that French people noticed his lifetime of cruelty and the justice system's aberrant failure.

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Martine Escadeillas

She was a 24-year-old secretary who lived in the French city of Toulouse with her long time boyfriend Thierry. She was discreet, but always smiling and ready to help anyone. She visited her family every weekend and had a good circle of friends with which she shared a passion for partying and motorbikes.

On December 8th, 1986, Martine disappeared. Her sister found her blood spread everywhere from her apartment to her cellar, where she also found her jewelry. The case quickly went cold and would take several decades to be solved. Finally, one of her friends, Joël, was convicted of murdering her after she rejected his advances.

Her body still hasn't been recovered.

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