Toulouse (AFP)
The serial killer Patrice Algre, sentenced in 2002 to life for five murders preceded by rape, will apply for a sentence adjustment at the end of his period of safety, was learned Saturday from his lawyer.
"It's a right of Patrice Alègre, I intend to file on September 6, at the end of its 22-year security period, a request for adjustment of sentence," said AFP Pierre Alfort, stating that the killer in series that he had not defended for 16 years, wrote to him a month ago.
"In any case it will be a request for placement under an electronic bracelet, but beforehand there will be a psychological and psychiatric expertise to determine if this man is likely to go out," said the criminal Toulouse.
In February 2002, the Haute-Garonne Assize Court sentenced the killer to the maximum penalty of life imprisonment with a twenty-two-year security period for five murders preceded by rape and a sixth rape, a series of crimes committed between 1989 and 1997.
On the other hand, Patrice Alègre had received a dismissal for five cases of murders or murders and for a rape committed between 1987 and 1992, including the file on the death of Line Galbardi.
The latter case had launched the "second Alègre case" and unleashed a media storm, which had especially splashed the former mayor of Toulouse Dominique Baudis and a magistrate, Marc Bourragué.
Patrice Algre had even acknowledged the murder of Line Galbardi and a transvestite, Claude Martinez, in a letter dated May 29, 2003, read on Canal + by the host Karl Zéro.
He had designated as sponsors of these crimes MM. Bourragué and Baudis, then retracted. This "second Alègre case" ended with a definitive non-location in 2005.
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