In reading mode: the judicial system in the hot seat

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Signed Constance Debré, a little book that will make an impression. 

Constance Debré was a lawyer for a long time before dropping everything to take up the pen in time full. As a result, she knows the other side of the coin well, the one that we are not used to showing because it is not very shiny. 

In a building in a suburb near Paris, a 19-year-old young man stabs his old neighbor in the apartment below with a knife. 

This woman, however, he liked him. He was even one of the few people who found her nice. Since she was a widow and no longer had any contact with her son, he went to the pharmacy or the grocery store for her two or even three times a week. Like that, just to do him a favor. So inevitably, he had the code for his bank card… 

Crime and Punishment

This murder was not premeditated. It was fear and the instinct for survival that were the main triggers, with the young man owing another 450 euros to a dealer of the sadistic type. 

And after slitting the throat of the unfortunate octogenarian, the young man will simply return to his father in the apartment above, where he lives with his girlfriend and their almost three-year-old daughter. 

Six days later, when the police show up, they will have no trouble getting their hands on him. The trial will then begin and, oh surprise, this trial will also end up becoming that of the judicial system and society in general. 

A short text that jostles and disturbs, whose style we loved concise.

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