Podcast. Crimes and justice: Roland Agret, this rebellious Nîmes who cut his fingers to obtain justice

Roland Agret, ici à son domicile en Ardèche, en 2011; est décédé en 2014. MIDI LIBRE – François Barrère

Discover this Friday the incredible journey of Roland Agret, this Nîmes man wrongly convicted as the organizer of a double murder in Gard, in 1970, and who is going to launch himself into an arm- implacable battle with the judicial institution, to have his innocence recognized. By using his body as a weapon. But at what cost.

He spent half his life fighting against the judicial institution, and after 35 years was finally exonerated for double crime in which he was declared an accomplice, in Nîmes, in 1973. "Everything that happened to me, it happened in the name of justice. But what do we hide behind this word ?" this man with the hoarse voice and dilapidated frame still wondered, when we met at his home, in Ardèche, in 2011.

At the time of the death penalty and QHS

Roland Agret was then 70 years old, seven of whom had been wrongly spent behind bars, after the Gard Assize Court declared him guilty of having been the instigator of the crime. a double murder, in Orthoux, a small village where we found in the scrubland, on November 10, 1970, the bodies of two men riddled with bullets and stabbed with stab wounds. Because he had been close to them, because he also had bad company, Roland Agret found himself behind bars, and revolted.

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By taking his body hostage, mutilating himself, cutting off two fingers, shooting himself in the foot. An unthinkable fight, which is also a journey to the heart of the history of our judicial system, at a time when the death penalty and QHS still existed, and where revolt and indignation could take hold. very astonishing shapes.

This podcast is a new episode of the series "Crime and justice, the legal saga", written and narrated by François Barrère. Judicial cases which have marked our region, forgotten crimes, famous trials:  Midi Libre takes you into the universe every Friday dark but exciting news stories, through these new podcasts.