Héloïse Goy, with Alexis Patri 11:50 a.m., April 14, 2022

France 3 Paris Île-de-France broadcasts Thursday evening "Jusqu'à l'appel", a documentary film by Anne Hirsh and Arnaud Mansir which tells the story and the trial of Alexandre Chacon, a father accused of abuse after the death of her child and who proclaims her innocence.

The film is shown in the "La France en vrai" box.

INTERVIEW

In 2013, Alexandre Chacon was accused of having shaken his baby and caused his death.

Since this tragedy, Alexandre claims his innocence and assures, with the support of doctors' expertise, that his two-month-old baby boy died of an infection.

During his first trial at the assizes in 2019, this father was acquitted unanimously.

A short-lived relief: 75 hours later, the prosecution had appealed.

It is her story that Anne Hirsh and Arnaud Mansir tell in the documentary film

Until the call

, broadcast Thursday evening on France 3 Paris Île-de-France.

The verdict of the Alexandre Chacon appeal trial was delivered last November.

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500 families concerned in France

Alexandre Chacon explains to Europe 1 why he agreed to be filmed in this terribly painful journey.

"Accepting this proposal was a long road," he observes.

"We did it because I wanted the world after these nine years to understand the pain, the difficulty and the horror of going through all these years with the accusation of a crime against your own child, and what can be the violence of a climb to the Assizes in this kind of business."

The intention of the film is not to deny the reality of abuse suffered by hundreds of children each year in France, simply to question the margins of error of justice.

According to the Adikia association, of which Alexandre is a member and which supports victims of false diagnoses of child abuse, miscarriages of justice in cases of shaken babies concern 500 families in France. 

"I didn't kill my little boy"

Alexandre Chacon was finally found guilty of willful violence resulting in death without intention to give it.

He was given a five-year suspended prison sentence for this.

Faced with this verdict, he decided to appeal in cassation.

"I did not kill my little boy. So, once you realize this sentence, it is out of the question that I have a criminal record that says the opposite," he explains.

"I also don't want my wife and two daughters to have this in their lives. And if my innocence is found, and I will do anything to make that happen, I think many, many families would benefit."

The documentary film

Until the Call 

is to be discovered Thursday evening at 11:05 p.m. on France 3 Paris Île-de-France in the "La France en vrai" box and everywhere in France on france.tv.