Le cas de DIDIER TALLINEAU

Le 19 juillet 1999, Carole Le Yondre disparaît après une soirée entre amis. L’enquête mènera à un homme, un père de famille bien sous tout rapport. Du moins, en apparence… 🔔 ABONNE-TOI !

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⚫️ https://fr.wikipedia.org/wiki/Didier_Tallineau#

⚫️ https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ecqitFr4Sc4

⚫️ https://www.ouest-france.fr/pays-de-la-loire/vendee/vendee-didier-tallineau-ce-tueur-en-serie-qui-ressemblait-a-monsieur-tout-le-monde-6924209

⚫️ https://www.lemonde.fr/societe/article/2005/02/17/le-garde-des-sceaux-remet-en-cause-le-bien-fonde-de-la-liberation-d-un-condamne-atteint-d-un-cancer_398467_3224.html

⚫️ https://www.liberation.fr/livres/2012/03/01/bar-du-crime_799675/

⚫️ https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=uosLf4mhMw8

⚫️ https://oip.org/analyse/dix-ans-de-loi-kouchner-funeste-anniversaire-de-la-suspension-de-peine-medicale/#:~:text=En%20instaurant%20une%20%C2%AB%20suspension%20de,les%20murs%20d’une%20prison.

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Fun fact n°247 : les rennes raffolent de l’amanite tue-mouches, un champignon qu’ils consomment pour ses vertus hallucinogènes.

Hello everyone, I hope you’re all well! We’re back today to talk about a rather unusual French case. Well, Hondelatte fans will certainly already be familiar with it, since he’s already recounted it twice, but I was rather surprised to see that,

Apart from him and Jacques Pradel in L’Heure du Crime, it’s a case that’s been told very little. In fact, it got to the point where it was quite difficult to find many sources on this case, which I think, as you’ll see, deserves to be covered and publicized…

So listen, without further ado, let’s get on with the story. As usual, I’ll leave you to make yourselves comfortable, turn off your lights, and as soon as you’re ready; Off we go! [Mystery, HolFix] It is Monday July 19, 1999, in Châteaubriant, Loire-Atlantique.

Carole Le Yondre is in a festive mood: classes are almost over, the weather’s fine and she’s looking forward to spending some time with her friends. The young student nurse suggests to her classmates that they go out to relieve

Some of the pressure; and they end up at La Louisiane, a small, not exactly glamorous neighborhood bar… but one that’s just right for a chat and a drink. The evening goes by, they have one drink after another, play pool; in short,

They enjoy themselves. Eventually, they all went home… all except Carole. The next day, the young woman gave no sign of life. Her friends from nursing school tried to reach her, but to no avail. They were worried; it wasn’t like Carole not to give any news like that.

So they alerted the police, who began by searching her home. All her belongings were there, there were no signs of a struggle and her car hadn’t moved. Naturally, the bar owner is questioned, since that’s where she was last seen: does he remember

Carole? Did she leave the premises? Did he notice anything suspicious? According to him, after her friends had left, Carole offered to help him do the dishes before leaving, at around 3am. The police made a quick tour of the premises, but found nothing unusual.

And since then, no news. Her parents were distraught, the press got hold of the case, and very quickly the whole town began to worry about the 20-year-old. Posters were put up on the walls, but days went by with no sign of Carole Le Yondre.

Nothing… until the morning of Sunday July 25, 1999, just under a week after Carole’s disappearance. A cyclist, out for a cool morning in the heatwave, was caught by a stench as he made his usual rounds. He got off his bike and let the smell lead him

To a ditch on the side of the road… where a rotting female corpse lay. Completely shocked, he hurried to call the police. They were quick to arrive, and had also called in a GP to confirm the death. At first sight, the victim had been dead

For several days, as evidenced by her advanced state of decomposition. The gendarmes also noticed that her skull had been completely exploded, and that she was partially undressed: her breasts were hanging out of her bra, and her pants were down. The investigators immediately ruled out accidental death, especially as

The victim’s hands were tied behind her back. Everything suggests that she was killed elsewhere, and that her body was simply left by the side of the road. Of course, it doesn’t take long for the investigators to make the connection between

The discovery of this body abandoned in a ditch and the disappearance of young Carole Le Yondre. But even if they have very few doubts, the autopsy turns out to be more complex than expected: the body is in such poor condition that formal identification is very difficult.

What is certain, however, is that the victim’s skull had been smashed with a very heavy object. So the investigators decided to summon Carole’s relatives to show them the objects that had been found next to the body: a wallet and a watch… which her mother immediately recognized.

Genetic tests are nevertheless carried out, confirming that the body is indeed that of Carole Le Yondre. In search of further clues, the gendarmerie launched an appeal for witnesses. They are hoping to obtain testimonies that could help them understand

What might have happened to the young woman. And the appeal bore fruit a woman contacted them to tell them she had seen a man in a car, around 4am, right next to where Carole’s body had been found.

The woman provided crucial information: as she was driving home from a party the night before the body was found; she saw a man standing outside her car. She found this strange, not only because it was a private road, but also because it was 4am.

And then the man rushed back into his car when he saw her coming… That’s why, the next morning, she decided to go back and see if there was anything unusual, but apart from a garbage bag, there was nothing else.

At the time, she felt there was no reason to panic: it was just a bag, after all. But when she learns that a body has been discovered nearby, and that it was also wrapped in garbage bags… it clicks. She returned

To the scene, got closer and noticed that the bag was in fact covered in blood. It was therefore following this discovery that she decided to contact the gendarmerie. Thanks to this testimony, the gendarmes have a fairly detailed description of the driver,

But above all of the vehicle in question: a red Renault station wagon Nevada. While this is valuable information, the problem is that there are quite a few cars of this

Type in the region, and the investigators are beginning to think that the search is going to take a long time. But as luck would have it, they learn that a red Nevada is parked in front of the “La Louisiane” bar.

Remember, this is the very bar where Carole was last seen alive… They decide to make a stakeout, and that’s when they see a man coming out of the bar and starting to clean the inside of the car.

They know they have to act quickly to prevent him from wiping out any physical evidence. So they arrest the man, who introduces himself as the bar’s owner: Didier Tallineau. But before they take him to the station, they still want to inspect his

Vehicle. And when they sit down inside, they are immediately struck by a foul smell, which they have no trouble identifying: that of putrefaction. Even if someone tried to mask it using a lavender air freshener spray; the stench is unmistakable. And the tests carried out by the police also

Revealed traces of blood on the station wagon’s floor mats. Didier Tallineau is immediately taken into custody. His wife and all the customers who had been at the bar the night Carole Le Yondre disappeared were also questioned. Tallineau began by giving an initial version

of what would have happened on the evening of July 19, 1999: He jokingly asked the young people present “who was going to help him wash the dishes”, but Carole took him at his word, and offered to wash the glasses.

So she stayed for a while after her friends had left, but Didier Tallineau quickly told her to go home. That’s the first version… and the gendarmes aren’t convinced. He gave a second version of events, in which a man called Karim,

A regular at the bar, killed Carole while he himself was down in the cellar. This Karim, annoyed by Carole’s rejection of his advances, hit her with a pool cue. And when Tallineau came back upstairs to see the young woman unconscious,

He panicked: he didn’t want to get into trouble and ruin his bar’s reputation. So he decides to wrap Carole’s body in garbage can bags, leaving Karim to dispose of it. The problem is that Karim is already known to the police,

He’s just been released from prison and is extremely stressed during his interrogation. He starts by denying the charges, but is unable to answer the gendarmes’ questions. All this leads the investigators, initially, to prefer Tallineau’s version -and let’s be

Honest, this decision is probably influenced by a little racist bias… But fortunately, after a while, the gendarmes sense that Karim, who is completely exhausted and stressed by police custody, is ready to confess to a crime he didn’t commit just to get it over with.

So they question Tallineau again and put the pressure on. Tallineau gives a third version of events, but gets lost in his explanations. The investigators realize he’s lying. He finally confesses and tells them what really happened:

Carole was indeed there with her friends that evening, and helped him with the dishes. He even confided to the police: “It would have been better if she had gone away, I wouldn’t have done

Such a stupid thing”. As you can guess, the “stupid thing” he refers to is Carole’s murder. And here’s what would have happened: when Carole repeatedly rebuffs his advances, Didier goes into a rage. He grabs a pool cue and hits the young woman repeatedly. Carole collapses,

Unconscious, and Tallineau takes the body down to the cellar. He begins to undress Carole: he removes a shoe, lifts her T-shirt, pulls down her pants… because he wants to “see her body”, as he puts it. But Carole wasn’t dead, and as she began to regain consciousness,

Didier Tallineau grabbed a beer keg and smashed the poor woman’s skull with it. This version finally convinces the investigators; remember, in the coroner’s report, it was written that the victim had been hit on the head with a very heavy object… and the

Beer keg perfectly matches the wounds found on the victim. After killing Carole, Didier wrapped the body in a plastic sheet/trash bags and hid it at the back of the cellar, behind some bottle racks. So, for almost a week, he serves his customers at the bar, while

Carole Le Yondre’s body lies right underneath him… But it’s the middle of July, and as you can imagine, the smell soon becomes unbearable. Tallineau knows he’ll have to get rid of it. I mentioned it at the start of the video, but the gendarmes came to La Louisiane

On Saturday, July 24, to summon him as part of the investigation… and they found nothing wrong. It was this visit, however, that prompted Tallineau to put the body in his car after closing the bar. The rest you know: he is seen on a private road

By the woman who contacted the gendarmerie; but what she didn’t know was that by this time Tallineau had already dumped the body in the ditch. Fearing that she would make the connection, he picked up the body to move it… but forgot a bloody garbage can bag behind him.

But back to the questioning of Tallineau, who is still in police custody and has just confessed to the murder of Carole Le Yondre. The investigators decide to search the bar, along with Tallineau, to help them reconstruct the facts and find

Material evidence. They discover traces of blood, but also one of Carole Le Yondre’s shoes, which confirms Tallineau’s guilt and his version. At the end of the search, Tallineau offers the gendarmes…something to drink. After all, it’s really hot and this is probably his last chance to serve drinks. And the

Gendarmes accept. They ask Didier Tallineau for a cold beer. Yes, they do. I don’t know if you can imagine the scene, but here we have a man in handcuffs, accused of murder, serving a beer to the gendarmes who

Have just discovered formal proof of his guilt. It’s crazy.. Now that I’ve given you the facts, I think it’s time to tell you a little about Didier Tallineau’s childhood and background. He was 36 at the time of his arrest,

And had been living in Châteaubriant for less than a year. He was also married and had a child. So we wonder: what could have driven this seemingly normal man, a bar owner with a serious reputation, to savagely kill a young woman?

Didier Tallineau was born on September 17, 1965, in Niort, in the Deux-Sèvres département. He has 3 sisters, and is the only boy in the siblings. His father, a truck driver, is often away at work. His mother,

For her part, has the reputation of being a very strict woman, not afraid to hit her children with a whip when they disobey. Didier’s tantrums began around the age of 10. He developed a habit of making a scene and breaking chairs when he got upset. He would

Later say that it was “to express himself”, and “to make himself understood”. Clearly, the young boy didn’t feel he was being listened to, and was having trouble managing his emotions. We don’t have much more information about his childhood in general, as is often the case,

But we do know that at 15, Tallineau faked a burglary at his parents’ home, and simulated an entire crime scene; which is quite unusual, it has to be said. But the gendarmes aren’t fooled, and soon realize that it was the teenager who had staged the whole thing.

However it’s rather difficult to understand his motives: was it, once again, once again, to attract attention? To express himself? As his parents don’t press charges there will be no follow-up, and therefore no real answers.

At the same time, however, Didier Tallineau developed a passion for his work: he dreamed of becoming an exemplary employee, for whom nothing could be held against him. In 1985, he turned to the restaurant business and found seasonal work at the Hotel Vereina,

In the Swiss resort of Klosters-Serneus. It was there that he met Catherine Charuau, his first partner. Together, they bought a house in Oulmes, Vendée, in 1989. Their relationship was clearly not a peaceful one, and their violent marital disputes became

A frequent topic of conversation in the small town where they lived. Because while Tallineau had the reputation of being very hot-tempered, he was also a great seducer and lover of women. Catherine had her doubts about her partner’s fidelity. She hadn’t worked since

Their move to Vendée, so she was bored and left alone with her worries. She’s certain that Didier is cheating on her with one of his bar staff, and since she knows the address of Didier’s alleged mistress, she decides to take a look.

When she sees Didier’s car parked in front of the entrance, she’s not surprised. She knew it. About a week after this discovery, Catherine disappears without a trace. At first, Tallineau claims that Catherine left him after an argument… and everyone seems to believe him.

But after several months without any news, Catherine Charuau’s family became terribly worried, and the gendarmes were alerted. An investigation was launched, but to no avail: as you know, in France, an adult has the right to disappear.

What’s more, certain movements in the young woman’s bank account seem to indicate that she is indeed alive, somewhere. She has even bought herself a new car. Although her family remained unconvinced, the investigation went no further.

But a decade later, the arrest of Didier Tallineau brought up the old case again. For the gendarmes, the fact that the companion of the man they had just arrested for murder had disappeared 10 years earlier was clearly no coincidence. The case of Catherine Charuau’s disappearance is reopened.

In 1989, Tallineau had successfully evaded suspicion, but in 1999, it was a different story. The investigators decided to question Tallineau’s current partner, the mother of their child. To do this, they didn’t summon her to the police station. No, they visit her at their home.

And while the woman’s answers don’t really provide them with any additional information about what might have happened with Catherine Charuau, the visit is not in vain. For in the apartment, their attention is drawn to… a collection of stuffed animals.

Now, I know you’re wondering why stuffed animals would be of interest to investigators, but it’s actually quite simple: Catherine Charuau collected stuffed animals. This is an element of the investigation that Tallineau himself had highlighted ten years earlier. He had insisted on this point when he asserted

That she had left on her own, like “look, she took everything, her passport, her checkbook, and even her collection of stuffed animals.” The devil really is in the details… And so, inevitably, the investigators were intrigued. They soon

Obtained confirmation that these were indeed Catherine’s stuffed animals: her relatives formally recognized them. At last, for the first time, there was a clue that Tallineau had lied. And that Catherine probably didn’t disappear on purpose. Once again, all the elements of the case are examined. Of particular interest

To the investigators are the movements on the young woman’s bank account, the cheques she signed after she left, for example, which at the time had contributed to the belief that her disappearance was voluntary. A graphological analysis of the cheques written and deposited between August and September 1989

Confirmed that they had not been written by Catherine Charuau, but by Didier Tallineau. After that, nothing happened. The account stopped recording the slightest activity. On November 16, 1999, the gendarmes had enough evidence to summon Tallineau for further questioning, to confront him with these elements,

In the hope that he would confess to what had really happened to Catherine. Didier Tallineau, who was on remand, was released from prison for the occasion. But under interrogation, he denies any involvement in Catherine’s disappearance. The exchanges with the investigators were tense

And as the hours passed, Tallineau became increasingly aggressive. He is confronted with Catherine’s parents. And then, after 24 hours, Didier finally breaks down. He admits: yes, it’s true, he killed Catherine. But it was an “accident”… He recounts the scene. It was the evening of August 7, 1989.

Tallineau comes home from work, tired. Catherine was waiting for him in the kitchen, looking preoccupied. Then she drops that bombshell “I’m leaving you”. An argument breaks out. Tallineau loses his temper

and slaps his partner. Her head hits the counter and she falls to the floor. She’s dead. Well… that’s Tallineau’s version, of course. The reality is that, in his rage, he probably hit her several times. But anyway, back to his story…

So Catherine’s lifeless body lies in the kitchen, and Didier proceeds methodically. He wraps her in a blanket and ties it up meticulously. Then he drags her into the garden, takes a shovel and digs a hole in the vegetable patch.

He even empties bottles of perfume over her body and soaks the earth around it, lest any odors betray him. Then he covers Catherine with soil. The young woman disappears, buried some fifty centimetres beneath the surface of her own garden.

Didier Tallineau wastes no time. He buried the last traces of his misdeed and quickly went knocking at his neighbors’ door, contacting Catherine’s family. He told them he was worried: after an argument, she had taken his things and decided to leave him.

And what do you know? Everyone believes him. Because everyone knew that there was a lot of tension in the couple, no one is really surprised that Catherine got fed up and decided to leave Didier. And, yes, it may sound strange, but she’d already behaved in this way

In the past. With her ex-partner Except that the previous time, she’d still kept in touch with her parents, especially her mother, to whom she’s very close. Now, however, there was radio silence. So, after a while, Catherine’s mother began to worry.

That’s when the movements in the young woman’s bank account were mentioned and taken as signs that she’d simply decided to make a new life elsewhere. But Catherine’s mother doesn’t believe it for a moment. She’s certain that if her

Daughter had really left, she wouldn’t leave her without news for months on end. It’s just not like her, it’s completely unthinkable. So she goes back to the drawing board, and tries to alert the gendarmes regularly,

But to no avail. As I said, we’re talking about a person of legal age, who has the right to disappear, and there’s nothing they can do about it. But Catherine’s mother doesn’t give up. She contacts the press, pesters the gendarmes for months, years, but nobody takes her seriously.

And yet, in all that time, she never once suspected Didier Tallineau. She even feels empathy for him! “We never suspected Tallineau of doing this. We trusted him. He’d told us that she’d left him, that she’d gone off one night and taken his things with her.”

In the end, it was perhaps Didier’s cold demeanor that led to suspicions in his entourage. As time went by, some of his neighbors and friends began to wonder and even to have a sort of bad feeling.

This is particularly true of one of Didier’s neighbors, who became a friend, for whom there is no doubt as to what really happened. He’s convinced Didier killed Catherine. In the autumn of 1994, 5 years after Catherine Charuau’s disappearance,

Her parents turned to Maître Genty to open an investigation. Around the same time, it is interesting to note that Didier Tallineau left Switzerland, where he was working at the time, to go to…Serbia. It’s a very peculiar choice of destination,

even seemingly incomprehensible since it’s a country at war at the time. But perhaps it wasn’t such an odd choice after all, since it was a country which, at the time, didn’t extradite French citizens. And even if this could never be completely proven,

there’s a good chance that this element played a role in Tallineau’s departure… Still in this period, at the end of 1994, Didier Tallineau began seeing a young German woman, Christine Richter. In December, he arrived at her home in Düsseldorf,

And found an excuse to ask her to put him up for the night, which she accepted. What happens next is unclear and incomprehensible. Christine is doing the dishes in her kitchen when she suddenly feels a

Sharp pain in the back of her head. She collapses to the floor and calls Tallineau, who joins her. He explains that apparently a jar or bottle stored high up had fallen on her and knocked her out…

Well, I don’t need to spell it out for you, of course, you know it’s a lie. In reality, he hit her with a rolling pin. But Christine doesn’t know that… Didier carries Christine to the sofa to lay her down

and she keeps asking him to help her, to take her to hospital or call an ambulance because she’s really not feeling well. But Tallineau does everything he can to minimize the situation. He convinces Christine that all he has to do

is go to the chemist and buy her some medicine, and everything will be all right. Taking advantage of the young woman’s vulnerability, he gets her to give him her credit card and the code -to buy what she says she needs at the chemist’s…

Didier Tallineau leaves the apartment, goes to an ATM, withdraws the maximum amount of cash authorized by the card, then returns to Christine, without medication, without anything of course… And he tells her that his card isn’t working. So she gives him a second one,

Tallineau does the same thing again, he withdraws all he can, then gets back into his car and drives back to Serbia, with both cards, the codes, and leaving Christine at home… Christine Richter eventually comes to her senses,

Manages to call a friend of hers who comes to pick her up and takes her to hospital, where she is treated for severe head trauma, and narrowly escapes death… She has suffered lifelong after-effects of the attack.

But once again, the craziest thing was that she didn’t want to believe that Didier Tallineau had attacked her. She, at least for the first few days, the first few weeks, believed in the theory that it was an accident, that a bottle had fallen on her and

That Didier Tallinau had just run off with the money… But it’s still crazy, especially as it’s not the first time Tallineau has been seen as innocent by almost everyone. I’m really insisting on this, because even I have to admit that at times,

I was tempted to say to myself “why were people so naive?” but when I see the number of people he’s managed to fool, I say to myself “well ok, obviously he was very, very talented, he knew exactly how to fool people.”

So I’d like to ask you, please, to be fair in your comments about the victims and their reactions. I assure you that, all the more so when you’re vulnerable, some people are absolutely fearsome. And it’s not the victims’ fault.

In any case, it’s true that Christine Richter was not from being another of Didier Tallineau’s victims… And then there are the other incidents that investigators have uncovered and or which there are strong suspicions about Didier Tallineau, even if it hasn’t been proven.

Firstly, still in 1994, in the Swiss hotel where Didier Tallineau worked. This hotel was twice the victim of arson attacks in August. Tallineau was present and was caught with gasoline on him at the time. So when you know Tallineau’s temperament

And what he was capable of, it’s very, very suspicious… And what’s more, two years earlier, in 1992, Didier Tallineau was at a party with several other people, and one of the guests, a kitchen assistant,

Woke up in the bathroom in a pool of blood. He has no recollection of what happened, only that he was with Tallineau before the blackout, and then, apparently, he was hit in the back of head, which knocked him unconscious.

Again, there’s never been any proof that it was Didier Tallineau who attacked him but given the circumstances and especially the very, very similar modus operandi, investigators are absolutely convinced that it was indeed he who, in yet another fit of rage, hit him and left him for dead.

So that’s about all that the investigators have been able to find out about Tallineau’s background, so now let’s go back to after his arrest and talk a little more about the judicial aspect of this case. As the Charuau and Le Yondre cases were handled by

Two different examining magistrates, Didier Tallineau had two trials. On October 15, 2001, he went on trial for the murder of Catherine Charuau and the attempted murder of Christine Richter. The trial, which took place in Vendée, lasted just 3 days,

So you can imagine that proving Tallineau’s guilt wasn’t difficult. His account of Catherine’s murder is the same as his confession: when Catherine threatened to leave him, he snapped and hit her hard. According to him,

It was an accident; and you’ll see that he uses this argument for all his crimes: each time, he tries to diminish his responsibility by putting forward the theory of an accident. Except that this theory, well, it’s not at all consistent with

Tallineau’s behavior after the crime. Remember, he buried her in the garden and led everyone to believe that Catherine had left him, taking her stuffed animal collection with her. It even attracts the sympathy of the victim’s parents, who feel that

Their daughter’s action is not right: after all, they say to themselves, leaving poor Didier overnight… This behavior rather suggests a premeditated act. Neither the prosecution, nor anyone present in the courtroom at the time, believes this hypothesis for a moment.

Christine Richter, for her part, did not want to come face to face with her attacker. However, the videoconference of the confrontation between her and Tallineau, which had been organized by the investigators, was broadcast. Trials are also an opportunity,

As you’re used to by now, to try and draw up a psychological portrait of the defendant There’s quite a lot to say about Didier Tallineau. Firstly, the psychiatric experts have determined that Tallineau has no psychotic disorders. According to them,

He was a “normal” man, leading a life structured by work. He was able to integrate into the various spheres of daily life, whether with his partner, their child or at work… most of the time. But it’s true that it was punctuated by phases of explosive anger.

Even if we can’t really call him a serial killer, we can see that there is a parallel that can be drawn: he’s someone who commits murders that resemble each other: they’re extremely sudden,

Triggered on the spur of the moment by an annoyance that sends him into an excessive rage, he delivers violent blows to the head of his victims, then tries to hide the bodies. We even note the use of perfume,

For the two deceased victims, and the fact that he wraps them in something; whether it is a tarpaulin or a cover, which is still very specific. Of course it’s “practical” -it’s terrible to have to go into these details,

I’m really sorry. But we could also almost think of it as a kind of “ritual”. And so, if he’s not strictly speaking a serial killer since he killed “only” two victims, I think we’re getting very close, and his behavior

Has been likened by the experts to that of dangerous repeat offenders, and during the trial, they emphasized this to underline his “extreme dangerousness”. As you know, it’s always difficult to pinpoint the origin of a person’s violence, or why they act in such a violent way.

In Tallineau’s case, we can see that he’s incapable of curbing his aggressive impulses. It’s almost reminiscent of brain damage in the frontal part of the brain, as is often the case with serial killers. But in Didier Tallineau’s case, I don’t think this was ever mentioned.

In his case, the experts turned instead to his childhood, and in particular the very complicated, even ambiguous relationship with his mother. As I said, she was a very strict mother, who regularly punished him with corporal punishment. Didier used to say that he didn’t feel safe with her.

But on the other hand, she was also a mother who idolized him. We know that Didier was more spoiled than his sisters. On the one hand, he received more affection, but on the other, he was also punished more severely.

And this very ambivalent upbringing probably played a role in Didier Tallineau’s dysfunctional development, since it was almost like learning to accept and trivialize physical violence as a response, from an early age. As he grew older, as we’ve seen, Didier Tallineau became hot-tempered and

Capricious. He doesn’t take no for an answer, he doesn’t understand and especially doesn’t take no for an answer, and when confronted with such a situation, he explodes with rage. This will therefore particularly be found later, once an adult, in his intimate relationships with women, but not only.

It’s also the case in his work, although I think his desire to be the perfect worker will keep him much more restrained in that respect. Finally, I think it’s also important to point out that, according to the investigators, he’s someone who seems completely devoid of

Empathy: he’s never mentioned any remorse about the murders. The only time he seemed to feel any emotion was when he was arrested. He apparently shed a few tears at the thought of never seeing his son again,

But that lasted a very short time, and he regained composure after. So you see, there’s really something at play with his emotions it’s as if he’s always in a state of emotional blunting he doesn’t feel much (or at least he doesn’t show it at all) and sometimes,

Suddenly and without warning, when he’s faced with an upset, he explodes completely. In short, emotional management seems to be a big problem for him. And I think that’s why he was nicknamed “the man with two faces.”

At the end of this first trial, Tallineau was sentenced to 30 years with a 20-year security sentence, which is the maximum penalty. He appealed, but without success: the verdict remained the same. On December 17, 2002, just over a year after his first

Trial, Didier Tallineau appeared again before the Nantes Assize Court, this time for the murder of Carole Le Yondre in his bar La Louisiane. And surprise, he’s changed his story again: he now admits killing the young woman, but claims he doesn’t remember.

Once again, no one is really convinced by this version of events… except the psychiatric experts, who put forward the hypothesis of a specific amnesia; which corresponds to a kind of mental barrier, a defense mechanism created when an individual commits

An unbearable crime and is unable to confront the reality of his deed. But this hypothesis was ultimately rejected, partly because of his criminal record and his conviction for the murder of Catherine Charuau. After deliberation, on December 20, 2002,

Didier Tallineau was once again sentenced to 30 years’ imprisonment with a 20-year security term, and incarcerated at Fresnes prison. In France, as you probably know, sentences are not cumulative, they are not added together like in the United States, so even if he was sentenced

Twice to 30 years’ imprisonment, it doesn’t make 60, but it does merge and therefore remains 30 years. Technically, since Didier Tallineau had received this conviction, accompanied by a 20-year security sentence, he could only apply for parole from 2019. But on December 8, 2004, Tallineau was released,

Having spent just 5 years behind bars. Why was this? Because he benefited from the Kouchner law, which came into force in March 2002 which allows the sentences of sick prisoners to be suspended in case

Of a life-threatening illness or if their condition is permanently incompatible with continued detention. In 2004, Tallineau was diagnosed with pleural cancer (i.e. lung cancer), and experts determined that he was in the terminal stage, with an estimated life expectancy of between 6 months and a year.

It is in this context that he was authorized to leave prison, in order to return to live with his parents, in the Vendée region… close to where the families of his victims also lived. The court’s decision immediately aroused anger and

Concern among the victims’ relatives and the general public, who feared that Tallineau might re-offend. New medical examinations were carried out at the beginning of 2005, confirming that Didier Tallineau’s cancer was erminal and that he was therefore entitled to benefit from the Kouchner law.

His neighbors, however, disagreed with the doctors’ conclusions. They observed Tallineau’s every move and recorded them. They noted, for example, that he was fit enough to do odd jobs around the house, to go out and

About. It is even said that he drove at excessive speed in the village… In short, his release was clearly controversial. However, Didier Tallineau refuted the accusations. He agreed to give an interview to a journalist from Le Nouveau Detective, who found him weakened

And noted that he had difficulty moving or catching his breath. The anger of the people of Olonne-sur-Mer continued to grow, and in the summer of 2005, we learned that Didier Tallineau was now in remission from his

Cancer, a sign that he had indeed started to get better since his release from prison. A petition was circulated, and lawyers for the victims’ families, notably Maître Stéphane Maitre, put pressure on Tallineau to return to prison, as he no longer fulfilled the conditions set out in the Kouchner law.

On September 13, 2005, this return to prison was confirmed by the Minister of Justice, and Didier Tallineau returned to Fresnes prison, after being free for almost 8 months. And then things moved rather quickly: Didier Tallineau’s state of health

Deteriorated again and his cancer seemed to be developing at a rapid rate. During 2006, he lost so much weight and was so weakened that his lawyer applied for him to be released under the Kouchner law.

But on the night of December 5, 2006, Didier Tallineau died in the prison hospital, before the courts could rule on his request for release. He was 41 years old. And if I’m telling you all this in detail, it’s because it’s interesting to note that following

These events, but also many other complex cases of sentence suspension in this context, the law has gradually been redefined with additional criteria, notably on the notion of “vital prognosis engaged”, which must now be “in the short term”, as the Minister of Justice explained in 2006:

“This primarily concerns people whose life expectancy does not exceed a few weeks, so that they do not die in prison (…) Sick people, even those suffering from a serious illness but who are not on the verge of death, do not have to benefit from this law.”

In addition, the existence of a serious risk of recidivism is now taken into account and can also block a prisoner’s access to this type of sentence suspension. The case of Didier Tallineau, among others, has therefore contributed to the addition of these clarifications,

So that a similar situation is now much less likely to occur. That’s it, we’ve reached the end of this video on the case of Didier Tallineau. I hope you’ve enjoyed my presentation of the case, and please let me know

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