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Darling.
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Rama.
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You were calling for your mother.
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What?
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You were saying, "Mom, Mom."
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Don't be ridiculous.
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Wait, please.
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They are young.
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They are heroes with no imagination.
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They shave my head carefully
till they're done.
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They believe it's their duty
to shave the women's heads well.
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Are you ashamed for them, my love?
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No.
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You are dead.
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I'm far too busy suffering.
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Night falls.
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All I hear is the sound of scissors
cutting my hair.
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It slightly eases the pain of your death.
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Oh the pain!
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The pain in my heart...
it's unbelievable.
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All around,
they're singing the Marseillaise.
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My father's drug store is closed
because of the disgrace.
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I am alone.
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Some of them laugh.
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At night, I return home.
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This week's class will focus
on the work of Marguerite Duras.
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More precisely,
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how the author
uses the power of her narrative
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to sublimate reality.
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The images you have just seen...
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I chose to link their direct violence
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and full on historic significance,
to the shaved-headed woman that Duras
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creates in
Hiroshima, my love,
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to demonstrate how the author
managed to transform the shock
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and feeling of revolt
in the face of these acts,
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which were commonplace
at the end of the war,
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into an almost lyrical song.
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Listening to the text,
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the author's intention is crystal clear.
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This woman is humiliated,
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distraught,
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branded like a prisoner,
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all be it temporarily
as hair does grow back,
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but branded forever on her memory
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and that of those around her.
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This woman, an object of shame,
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becomes, thanks to the author's words,
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not only a heroine
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but a human being in a state of grace.
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Hello.
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- Hello, Mrs. Fall.
- Hello, Adrien.
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- How are you?
- I'm OK.
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Hi.
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Hi, Tenning.
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You OK?
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I'd better check on the food.
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I'll come with you.
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Here's your medication, Mom.
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Don't worry, Mom, it's nothing.
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I'm really enjoying this.
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- So I see.
- Bravo.
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- It's delicious.
- Thank you.
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Adrien, tell me about your work.
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It's going really well.
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It was our bass player's birthday
at the last concert.
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The audience sang Happy Birthday to him.
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He was thrilled.
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We're doing alright.
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We have work.
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Touch wood.
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How about you, Rama,
is the new book coming on well?
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- And you?
- I'm OK.
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A bit tired from work, but I'm OK.
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It doesn't show, you look well.
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- Good.
- Those earrings really suit you.
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- That's true.
- Thank you.
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You don't often wear earrings,
they suit you.
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Where are you going on holiday this year?
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I don't think we'll go away this year.
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We have some major work
to do on the house.
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What kind of work?
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Nothing very important.
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Nothing very important, yeah.
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Right.
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By the way,
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can you take Mom to physio on Monday?
I finish too late.
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I can't on Monday.
I'm in meetings all day.
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How about you, Rama,
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- can you take her?
- No, I can't.
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You could make an effort.
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But I can't. I won't be here.
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There's Dad.
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Do you remember that cousin?
We never see him.
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- I think that's Uncle Bamba.
- I don't know.
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Yeah, I think it's him.
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There were so many of us!
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Those were happy times.
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You can't tell Dad was sick at the time.
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It didn't show.
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There's Mom. What memories.
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Incredible.
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Look at her!
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Incredible.
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There's Rama.
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- Always calm.
- She was shy.
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Incredible.
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She was already a wild little thing.
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Mom?
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Mom?
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Will you be OK?
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Yes.
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- Call me when you arrive.
- OK.
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Ciao.
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All rise.
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Please be seated.
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Ask the journalists to leave.
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Would all journalists please leave.
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Bailiff, bring in the defendant.
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Gentlemen, please remove the handcuffs.
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Please state your full name,
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date and place of birth
and your parents' full names.
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My name is Laurence Coly.
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I was born March 15, 1980,
in Dakar, Senegal.
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My father's name is Robert Coly,
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my mother's name, Odile Diatta.
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What is your profession?
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I'm a student.
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At the time of your arrest,
you were living with Mr. Luc Dumontet,
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at 29, Avenue du Général De Gaulle,
in Saint-Mandé.
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- Is that correct, Ms. Coly?
- Yes.
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You may be seated.
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The court will now proceed
with jury selection.
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If any of you, ladies and gentlemen,
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are related to the defendant
or her family,
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to any of the attorneys
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or judges, you must say so now.
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Juror number fifteen.
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Mrs. Evelyne Pringent.
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Born February 28, 1958, in Lille.
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Lives in Saint-Omer.
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Chartered accountant.
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Dismissed.
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Juror number seventeen.
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- Mrs.
- Yasmina Belhadj.
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Born June 22, 1990, in Paris.
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Lives in Clairmarais.
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Project manager.
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Dismissed.
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Juror number eighteen.
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Mrs. Sandrine Deportaire.
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Born February 19, 1986, in Lille.
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Lives in Armentières.
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Nurse.
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Please be seated.
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Juror number twenty-one.
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Mr. Julien Titrain.
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Born August 9, 1986, in Calais...
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Ms. Coly, please stand up.
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Ms. Coly,
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you are accused of the murder
of your 15-month-old daughter, Elise.
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The indictment we will now read,
details the facts
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that led to your arrest.
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On November 11, 2015,
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a man went into a police station
in Berck-sur-Mer.
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He reported finding the body of a child
on the beach that morning.
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He told the police officers
that while he was shore fishing,
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he noticed a shape
washed up on the sand.
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At first, he thought it was a seal.
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He went over to it
and discovered the corpse of a child.
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A medical examiner inspected the body
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and confirmed that the corpse
was that of a little girl,
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the cause of death:
drowning, suffocated by saltwater.
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There were no toxic substances
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or signs of abuse on the child's body.
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The investigators first thought the child
was a migrant drowned in a shipwreck.
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That same evening,
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the manager of Les Embruns hotel
went to the police station.
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He remembered a female guest and a child
who had spent a night at the hotel.
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The name given by the guest
enabled the officers to search
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the national immigration database.
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The name was Ms. Laurence Coly,
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living with Mr. Luc Dumontet,
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at 29, Avenue du Général De Gaulle,
in Saint-Mandé,
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in the Paris metropolitan area.
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The officers went
to your place of residence
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on November 20, 2015,
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nine days after the corpse was found.
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At first, you told them you'd sent
your daughter to your mother in Dakar
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to give yourself time
to write your thesis.
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You were informed that you were seen
with the child at the Gare du Nord,
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on the beach
and at the hotel in Berck-sur-Mer.
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Images from the CCTV cameras show
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that you returned to Paris alone,
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without the child.
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This was when you confessed.
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You told the detectives
that you killed your daughter because,
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I quote, "It would make life easier."
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You claimed to have committed the crime
after a violent clash with Mr. Dumontet.
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You claimed to have left
your daughter on the beach
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believing that the sea
would carry away her body.
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You claimed to have been, I quote,
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"Drawn into a tragic and vile venture."
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And although you claim
to have Western values,
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you describe "hallucinatory" phenomena
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of which you claim to be the victim.
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You talk of an "evil-eye,"
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you say you were cursed
by your family in Senegal
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and by Mr. Dumontet's family.
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Ms. Coly,
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do you know why you killed your daughter?
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I don't know.
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I hope this trial
will give me the answer.
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- Do you accept the alleged facts?
- Yes, I do.
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How do you plead?
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I plead not guilty, Your Honor.
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I don't think I'm the responsible party
in this case.
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What do you mean by,
"I don't think I'm the responsible party?"
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The two years before my daughter's death
were the worst of my life.
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Ms. Coly,
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we are here to try to understand,
you must explain.
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Mrs. Coly, we will now talk
about you and your life.
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You were born in Dakar.
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Your mother, Odile Diatta, is unemployed
and your father,
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Robert Coly,
a United Nations translator.
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They were in a relationship
for seven years.
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Could you tell us about your childhood?
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Shortly after I was born, my father
left my mother for another woman.
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I grew up with my mother
and my maternal grandmother.
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I was very close to my grandmother,
she took care of me.
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She was very affectionate with me.
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I was devastated by her death.
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She was called Elise,
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like my daughter.
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What were you like as a child?
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Materially, I lacked for nothing.
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We lived with others in a large house.
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We were comfortable.
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I think my childhood was quite ordinary.
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Cousins, birthday parties,
baptisms, Christmases...
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I was brought up as an only child.
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They say I was chatty, jolly...
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yet I remember sometimes,
I distanced myself from the others.
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00:26:04,272 --> 00:26:07,775
It worried my grandmother,
but I needed time alone.
244
00:26:10,778 --> 00:26:12,780
I read a lot too.
245
00:26:12,780 --> 00:26:14,323
I was mad about literature.
246
00:26:14,323 --> 00:26:17,535
- Did you have friends?
- Not really.
247
00:26:17,535 --> 00:26:19,787
Why do you think that was?
248
00:26:20,329 --> 00:26:21,247
I don't know.
249
00:26:23,958 --> 00:26:28,087
Perhaps because my parent's situation
was rather unusual.
250
00:26:28,629 --> 00:26:31,549
Or because my mother
forbade me to speak Wolof.
251
00:26:32,758 --> 00:26:34,468
It distanced me from the others.
252
00:26:34,468 --> 00:26:36,637
Why were you forbidden to speak Wolof?
253
00:26:37,972 --> 00:26:41,517
She wanted me to speak perfect French
and only French.
254
00:26:42,101 --> 00:26:43,936
She wanted me to succeed in life.
255
00:26:45,271 --> 00:26:47,648
She was obsessed by my education.
256
00:26:47,648 --> 00:26:49,275
What about your father?
257
00:26:49,984 --> 00:26:53,529
- Did you see him regularly?
- Yes, I did.
258
00:26:54,322 --> 00:26:56,991
I went to his house
one Sunday per month.
259
00:26:57,825 --> 00:26:59,535
My father is a calm person.
260
00:27:00,244 --> 00:27:02,079
He can be severe, but...
261
00:27:03,039 --> 00:27:05,916
he is sensitive and very cultured.
262
00:27:06,625 --> 00:27:08,544
We share a taste for the arts.
263
00:27:09,754 --> 00:27:11,881
With my mother, on the other hand,
264
00:27:14,467 --> 00:27:16,552
you could say it's more charged.
265
00:27:18,846 --> 00:27:21,474
- She is more hotheaded.
- Meaning?
266
00:27:22,516 --> 00:27:26,187
How would you describe
your relationship with your mother?
267
00:27:27,271 --> 00:27:29,815
When I was young,
my mother was often absent.
268
00:27:30,232 --> 00:27:33,569
She worked hard, she was always tired.
269
00:27:34,570 --> 00:27:37,865
Even if she had high expectations of me,
270
00:27:40,409 --> 00:27:43,412
- there was always a distance between us.
- Meaning?
271
00:27:44,246 --> 00:27:46,290
What do you mean by "distance"?
272
00:27:47,583 --> 00:27:49,085
I don't know.
273
00:27:51,128 --> 00:27:53,005
We don't have much in common.
274
00:27:53,589 --> 00:27:55,800
We're not interested in the same things.
275
00:27:56,550 --> 00:27:58,302
We are very different.
276
00:27:58,677 --> 00:28:01,472
Your mother has lived in Italy
for several years.
277
00:28:01,472 --> 00:28:03,933
She told the detectives
278
00:28:03,933 --> 00:28:07,937
that you called each other regularly,
at least once a week.
279
00:28:08,979 --> 00:28:11,440
This statement suggests
280
00:28:12,024 --> 00:28:15,486
that you were close,
Ms. Coly, not distant.
281
00:28:15,486 --> 00:28:17,154
I don't know.
282
00:28:17,154 --> 00:28:18,989
We called each other because...
283
00:28:19,407 --> 00:28:21,742
one has to call one's mother,
that's how it is.
284
00:28:23,202 --> 00:28:25,955
Would you say you were a wanted child?
285
00:28:26,414 --> 00:28:27,790
I don't know.
286
00:28:28,165 --> 00:28:31,377
You should ask them,
it didn't feel that way.
287
00:28:35,548 --> 00:28:37,758
What was your education like?
288
00:28:38,843 --> 00:28:42,304
My education was classic, literary.
289
00:28:42,304 --> 00:28:45,099
I attended the same Catholic school
all the way through.
290
00:28:45,808 --> 00:28:47,143
I was a good student.
291
00:28:47,810 --> 00:28:49,562
I knew what I wanted to study.
292
00:28:50,062 --> 00:28:51,480
My father supported me.
293
00:28:52,064 --> 00:28:53,607
I wanted to study law.
294
00:28:53,607 --> 00:28:55,943
Why did you decide to come to France?
295
00:28:57,945 --> 00:28:59,697
To get away from my parents.
296
00:29:02,616 --> 00:29:05,077
You just described a happy childhood,
297
00:29:05,077 --> 00:29:07,913
yet you wanted
to get away from your parents.
298
00:29:07,913 --> 00:29:09,999
That's contradictory.
299
00:29:12,501 --> 00:29:16,255
On the outside, everything was fine,
but it was oppressive.
300
00:29:17,590 --> 00:29:19,258
My father
301
00:29:20,009 --> 00:29:22,720
put a lot of pressure on me.
302
00:29:22,720 --> 00:29:25,139
I am his only biological child.
303
00:29:28,851 --> 00:29:31,103
I carried a lot of weight
on my shoulders.
304
00:29:33,105 --> 00:29:35,399
As for my mother, like I said,
305
00:29:35,399 --> 00:29:37,610
it was more or less the same thing.
306
00:29:37,610 --> 00:29:39,028
Sometimes,
307
00:29:39,403 --> 00:29:42,448
I felt she was projecting
her own desires onto me.
308
00:29:46,243 --> 00:29:49,288
Their obsession with my success
tormented me.
309
00:29:56,587 --> 00:30:00,508
You came to France in 1998.
310
00:30:00,508 --> 00:30:04,261
You lived with one of your maternal aunts
311
00:30:04,261 --> 00:30:06,639
in the 5th arrondissement, in Paris.
312
00:30:06,639 --> 00:30:09,433
How were your first years in Paris?
313
00:30:11,894 --> 00:30:13,979
I stayed with my aunt for two years.
314
00:30:14,438 --> 00:30:17,775
After that, I shared an apartment
with a cousin, Marthe.
315
00:30:18,651 --> 00:30:20,319
My father paid the rent,
316
00:30:20,319 --> 00:30:22,363
I attended university.
317
00:30:23,531 --> 00:30:25,699
It should have gone well, but...
318
00:30:26,575 --> 00:30:28,619
there were problems with Marthe.
319
00:30:29,203 --> 00:30:31,997
She caused trouble,
she was jealous of me.
320
00:30:33,207 --> 00:30:35,417
The year I spent with her was horrible.
321
00:30:37,962 --> 00:30:40,548
At that time,
something inside me snapped.
322
00:30:42,967 --> 00:30:44,385
After that...
323
00:30:46,637 --> 00:30:50,391
I went back to Dakar for a while
for my grandmother's funeral.
324
00:30:50,391 --> 00:30:51,809
There,
325
00:30:52,142 --> 00:30:54,645
everyone was weird around me.
326
00:30:54,645 --> 00:30:56,272
They called me an Oreo
327
00:30:56,272 --> 00:30:59,066
because I acted like
a white Parisian woman.
328
00:31:00,109 --> 00:31:02,361
It was a very difficult trip.
329
00:31:03,320 --> 00:31:06,323
I argued a lot with my mother.
330
00:31:08,200 --> 00:31:09,952
She also said I had changed.
331
00:31:11,704 --> 00:31:14,331
My only desire was to return to France,
332
00:31:14,331 --> 00:31:16,834
but I didn't want to live
with my cousin again.
333
00:31:18,210 --> 00:31:20,462
I went back to my aunt's place,
334
00:31:20,462 --> 00:31:22,673
but I only stayed for three months.
335
00:31:22,673 --> 00:31:26,510
I found a room
in exchange for child minding.
336
00:31:26,885 --> 00:31:30,598
Yes, the mother of those children,
Mrs. Vincent,
337
00:31:31,056 --> 00:31:33,517
said you were
very affectionate with them.
338
00:31:33,517 --> 00:31:37,855
She said you were, "Kind, intelligent,"
339
00:31:37,855 --> 00:31:40,065
it seems she really liked you.
340
00:31:40,816 --> 00:31:42,943
I got on well with the children.
341
00:31:43,277 --> 00:31:46,196
I looked after them for a few years,
then I stopped.
342
00:31:47,072 --> 00:31:49,199
My father stopped sending me money.
343
00:31:49,575 --> 00:31:53,412
He was disappointed that I decided
to do philosophy and not law.
344
00:31:54,580 --> 00:31:56,582
He refused to support me.
345
00:31:57,333 --> 00:31:58,417
He...
346
00:32:00,294 --> 00:32:01,837
When he found out...
347
00:32:11,764 --> 00:32:14,725
Your father wasn't able
to attend your trial,
348
00:32:14,725 --> 00:32:17,519
he claimed he had
an urgent job in Cameroun.
349
00:32:18,062 --> 00:32:20,606
I will read an extract
from his statement.
350
00:32:21,899 --> 00:32:26,320
"Laurence was an obedient,
intelligent and gifted child.
351
00:32:27,029 --> 00:32:31,533
"Our relationship became complicated
when she went to France."
352
00:32:34,370 --> 00:32:37,206
Your father mentions
an argument you had in 2002,
353
00:32:37,206 --> 00:32:39,124
after which, you cut ties.
354
00:32:41,669 --> 00:32:43,921
What was the argument about?
355
00:32:47,091 --> 00:32:50,344
It was at Christmas, over the phone.
356
00:32:51,887 --> 00:32:54,682
He'd found out
that I'd stopped attending university.
357
00:32:55,015 --> 00:32:56,809
He was very cross.
358
00:32:58,227 --> 00:33:00,104
I told him
359
00:33:01,313 --> 00:33:05,484
I wanted to swap law for philosophy,
but he was against it.
360
00:33:06,694 --> 00:33:09,822
He said he'd stop supporting me
if I didn't change my mind.
361
00:33:13,075 --> 00:33:15,661
So that was when all ties were cut?
362
00:33:16,078 --> 00:33:17,037
Yes.
363
00:33:19,540 --> 00:33:22,334
When your father stopped supporting you,
364
00:33:22,918 --> 00:33:27,005
was that when things started
to go badly with Mrs. Vincent?
365
00:33:27,881 --> 00:33:29,508
Yes, it was then.
366
00:33:30,050 --> 00:33:31,760
I had no income.
367
00:33:32,302 --> 00:33:35,472
I couldn't pay the rent
and my mother couldn't help me.
368
00:33:38,600 --> 00:33:42,730
When Mrs. Vincent asked you to move out,
369
00:33:42,980 --> 00:33:45,733
she says you emotionally blackmailed her.
370
00:33:45,733 --> 00:33:48,402
That's not true.
I just asked her for some time.
371
00:33:48,694 --> 00:33:50,571
I had to find a solution.
372
00:33:50,571 --> 00:33:52,781
I didn't want to go back to my aunt's.
373
00:33:57,244 --> 00:33:59,705
Was it at that time
374
00:33:59,705 --> 00:34:02,583
that you moved in with Mr. Dumontet?
375
00:34:03,041 --> 00:34:04,084
Yes.
376
00:34:05,627 --> 00:34:07,504
How did you meet him?
377
00:34:08,589 --> 00:34:10,924
At a dinner at my aunt's place.
378
00:34:11,842 --> 00:34:13,635
He knew her from Senegal.
379
00:34:14,762 --> 00:34:16,722
I think my aunt had her eye on him.
380
00:34:16,722 --> 00:34:18,682
What made you think that?
381
00:34:20,976 --> 00:34:22,269
I don't know.
382
00:34:22,853 --> 00:34:25,105
She seemed flattered
that he came to see her.
383
00:34:26,648 --> 00:34:28,233
I always suspected it.
384
00:34:29,693 --> 00:34:31,653
She flirted with him.
385
00:34:32,529 --> 00:34:34,990
Luc always denied it when I asked him.
386
00:34:37,326 --> 00:34:39,912
I think she invited me to impress him.
387
00:34:40,370 --> 00:34:43,499
Having a well-educated niece
made her look good.
388
00:34:46,168 --> 00:34:49,546
We spoke a lot that night.
389
00:34:50,881 --> 00:34:53,759
Luc knew Senegal well,
he'd spent some time there.
390
00:34:55,052 --> 00:34:57,888
He invited me to an exhibition
the next day.
391
00:34:59,264 --> 00:35:01,391
We started to spend time together.
392
00:35:02,184 --> 00:35:04,895
We got on well
despite our age difference.
393
00:35:05,562 --> 00:35:07,022
He was 57,
394
00:35:07,523 --> 00:35:08,899
I was 24.
395
00:35:10,943 --> 00:35:14,988
Did you have any romantic relationships
before Mr. Dumontet?
396
00:35:14,988 --> 00:35:17,825
The only relationship I've ever had
was with Mr. Dumontet.
397
00:35:18,909 --> 00:35:23,163
Did you have sexual relations
with anyone other than Mr. Dumontet?
398
00:35:23,163 --> 00:35:24,373
No.
399
00:35:29,670 --> 00:35:33,423
Did you both agree
that you'd live together?
400
00:35:34,842 --> 00:35:37,052
I think Luc was reluctant.
401
00:35:37,052 --> 00:35:39,054
But for me, living with him made sense,
402
00:35:39,054 --> 00:35:41,598
I couldn't continue
living with Mrs. Vincent.
403
00:35:41,598 --> 00:35:42,683
And
404
00:35:43,225 --> 00:35:44,935
I spent all my time with him.
405
00:35:44,935 --> 00:35:49,064
What did you know about Luc Dumontet
when you met him?
406
00:35:50,148 --> 00:35:53,026
I knew he had spent time in Africa.
407
00:35:54,695 --> 00:35:57,739
I knew he worked for
a major transport company,
408
00:35:58,115 --> 00:36:01,535
that he'd left his job
to follow his passion, sculpture.
409
00:36:02,536 --> 00:36:05,247
Shortly after we met,
410
00:36:05,247 --> 00:36:08,292
he moved into an artist's studio
in St. Mandé.
411
00:36:08,917 --> 00:36:12,629
Were you in love
when you decided to move in with him?
412
00:36:12,629 --> 00:36:13,714
Yes.
413
00:36:15,173 --> 00:36:18,552
Was it at this time
that you went back to university?
414
00:36:18,552 --> 00:36:20,262
Luc encouraged me to study again.
415
00:36:21,680 --> 00:36:25,767
He offered to pay for my studies
so I could be independent later on.
416
00:36:26,226 --> 00:36:28,896
When you moved in with Luc Dumontet,
417
00:36:29,396 --> 00:36:31,899
did you know he had a daughter?
418
00:36:32,316 --> 00:36:33,775
That he was still married?
419
00:36:33,775 --> 00:36:35,903
Even if he wasn't living with them.
420
00:36:35,903 --> 00:36:36,904
Yes.
421
00:36:37,279 --> 00:36:38,822
I knew from the start.
422
00:36:39,698 --> 00:36:42,701
I saw his daughter
once or twice in St. Mandé.
423
00:36:42,701 --> 00:36:44,620
I saw his wife once.
424
00:36:50,459 --> 00:36:52,127
Any questions?
425
00:36:56,048 --> 00:36:57,591
Counselor Vaudenay.
426
00:37:01,178 --> 00:37:04,264
How was your relationship
with Mr. Dumontet's family
427
00:37:04,264 --> 00:37:06,308
when you moved in with him?
428
00:37:07,184 --> 00:37:09,061
He didn't introduce me to any of them.
429
00:37:10,103 --> 00:37:13,273
Luc lunched with his wife once a week,
I had no say in it.
430
00:37:14,149 --> 00:37:17,069
I don't know what he told her about me,
he wouldn't say.
431
00:37:18,737 --> 00:37:20,948
I didn't exist when she was around.
432
00:37:21,657 --> 00:37:25,118
He said they were just friends
but I didn't know if it was true.
433
00:37:25,953 --> 00:37:28,246
I wasn't invited
to his daughter's wedding,
434
00:37:28,246 --> 00:37:30,624
but he did ask me to cook the meal.
435
00:37:31,249 --> 00:37:35,128
When the reception began at the studio,
Luc booked me into a hotel.
436
00:37:35,963 --> 00:37:38,382
He slipped me out through the back door.
437
00:37:41,218 --> 00:37:43,720
No further questions, Your Honor.
438
00:37:46,098 --> 00:37:48,892
Ms. Coly, at what point
439
00:37:48,892 --> 00:37:53,397
did your relationship with Mr. Dumontet
start to deteriorate?
440
00:37:58,944 --> 00:38:01,279
Certain facts distanced me from him.
441
00:38:01,279 --> 00:38:02,614
What do you mean?
442
00:38:04,324 --> 00:38:05,826
I had visions.
443
00:38:06,618 --> 00:38:07,953
A flash.
444
00:38:08,620 --> 00:38:09,955
About a secret of his.
445
00:38:11,248 --> 00:38:12,916
A secret he keeps to himself.
446
00:38:13,542 --> 00:38:16,336
You didn't mention that
during the investigation.
447
00:38:16,920 --> 00:38:19,423
You described recurrent harassment,
448
00:38:19,423 --> 00:38:22,718
disdain, indifference, lack of interest.
449
00:38:22,718 --> 00:38:25,095
Those were your grievances.
450
00:38:25,095 --> 00:38:29,141
In addition, you resented him
for visiting his brother in Auvergne.
451
00:38:29,141 --> 00:38:30,350
No.
452
00:38:30,809 --> 00:38:34,187
I meant it was Luc's attitude
and behavior that puzzled me.
453
00:38:34,187 --> 00:38:38,775
Parties or birthdays spent with the wife
he had supposedly left, not with me.
454
00:38:39,359 --> 00:38:40,652
It was as if...
455
00:38:41,153 --> 00:38:44,322
someone or something
wanted to distance him from me.
456
00:38:49,453 --> 00:38:50,579
Did you want a child?
457
00:38:50,579 --> 00:38:51,955
No.
458
00:38:51,955 --> 00:38:55,584
- Did you use contraception?
- No, we had sex sporadically.
459
00:38:55,584 --> 00:38:59,796
When Luc Dumontet noticed the pregnancy,
you told him you wouldn't terminate it.
460
00:39:00,589 --> 00:39:01,715
Why?
461
00:39:02,466 --> 00:39:05,385
When Luc found out,
it was too late for an abortion.
462
00:39:08,847 --> 00:39:12,100
I didn't get pregnant on purpose
as he told the investigator.
463
00:39:12,809 --> 00:39:14,728
Throughout my entire pregnancy,
464
00:39:14,728 --> 00:39:17,147
he kept looking at me, saying
465
00:39:17,147 --> 00:39:19,900
"What will you do?",
never "What will we do?"
466
00:39:20,650 --> 00:39:22,110
I said to him,
467
00:39:23,820 --> 00:39:25,197
"Don't worry,
468
00:39:27,157 --> 00:39:28,909
"you'll still have your life,
469
00:39:30,410 --> 00:39:33,330
"you'll still deny my existence
and that of the child,"
470
00:39:35,040 --> 00:39:36,917
he always found a way to do that.
471
00:39:45,133 --> 00:39:46,760
You may sit down.
472
00:40:01,108 --> 00:40:03,652
Mr. Dumontet, come forward please.
473
00:40:04,152 --> 00:40:05,862
The court will hear you.
474
00:40:13,411 --> 00:40:16,581
Mr. Dumontet, with hindsight,
475
00:40:17,999 --> 00:40:21,962
how do you explain what Ms. Coly did?
476
00:40:23,713 --> 00:40:27,509
It's incomprehensible, Your Honor.
477
00:40:27,509 --> 00:40:30,595
What Laurence did is incomprehensible.
478
00:40:32,013 --> 00:40:35,767
She was a wonderful mother,
the way she took care of Lili...
479
00:40:35,767 --> 00:40:37,936
She massaged her every day.
480
00:40:38,228 --> 00:40:42,065
Lili was loved by both of us.
481
00:40:43,900 --> 00:40:45,527
Laurence Coly said earlier
482
00:40:45,527 --> 00:40:49,281
that you were reluctant
for her to move in with you.
483
00:40:49,573 --> 00:40:51,408
Do you agree with that?
484
00:40:51,408 --> 00:40:52,534
No.
485
00:40:53,785 --> 00:40:56,955
I was somewhat surprised
about the way it happened
486
00:40:56,955 --> 00:40:59,708
but I welcomed her gladly.
487
00:41:01,126 --> 00:41:03,503
We agreed on a three-year period,
488
00:41:03,503 --> 00:41:08,175
so that she could finish her studies
and find work as a university lecturer.
489
00:41:08,758 --> 00:41:10,677
That was our agreement.
490
00:41:13,305 --> 00:41:16,516
For the most part,
I believe we got on well.
491
00:41:16,516 --> 00:41:19,352
I would go as far as to say
that we were happy.
492
00:41:20,103 --> 00:41:22,105
At least in the beginning.
493
00:41:22,105 --> 00:41:24,065
We went out a lot.
494
00:41:24,691 --> 00:41:28,653
I was proud to have a woman like her
by my side.
495
00:41:30,989 --> 00:41:33,241
Sometimes, when she spoke
496
00:41:35,368 --> 00:41:37,704
about her struggles with the thesis,
497
00:41:37,704 --> 00:41:40,957
I admit, I didn't understand anything,
498
00:41:40,957 --> 00:41:43,126
I couldn't help her, but...
499
00:41:43,126 --> 00:41:45,337
I was very impressed by
500
00:41:45,337 --> 00:41:47,172
how knowledgeable she was.
501
00:41:56,056 --> 00:41:57,432
But...
502
00:41:59,434 --> 00:42:01,561
I should add that
503
00:42:01,895 --> 00:42:04,606
Laurence is a very difficult person.
504
00:42:05,273 --> 00:42:08,151
She is extremely jealous of everyone.
505
00:42:08,151 --> 00:42:10,612
Whenever a woman spoke to me,
506
00:42:10,612 --> 00:42:15,325
she became paranoid, crazy.
507
00:42:15,325 --> 00:42:17,786
She could stay angry for days
508
00:42:17,786 --> 00:42:20,038
and give me the silent treatment.
509
00:42:20,455 --> 00:42:25,126
Her silence was very aggressive.
510
00:42:25,543 --> 00:42:29,506
She often told me that if she felt
I'd become too old and helpless,
511
00:42:30,131 --> 00:42:31,675
she would leave me.
512
00:42:33,009 --> 00:42:36,054
I took it for granted
that she'd leave me one day.
513
00:42:36,846 --> 00:42:39,849
Would you say
you had a romantic relationship
514
00:42:39,849 --> 00:42:42,143
with Ms. Coly?
515
00:42:43,228 --> 00:42:44,271
Yes.
516
00:42:44,980 --> 00:42:47,857
Yes, I think it was a love affair
517
00:42:47,857 --> 00:42:51,861
that went wrong and I don't know why.
518
00:42:53,780 --> 00:42:55,615
But it was a love affair.
519
00:42:55,615 --> 00:43:00,161
We conceived a child whom we both adored.
520
00:43:00,161 --> 00:43:03,290
And despite Laurence's temper,
521
00:43:04,541 --> 00:43:06,960
when the three of us lay in bed,
522
00:43:06,960 --> 00:43:10,755
I felt like the happiest man alive.
523
00:43:10,755 --> 00:43:15,385
Yet you never introduced Ms. Coly
to your friends or family.
524
00:43:16,386 --> 00:43:19,431
You told nobody about Elise's birth.
525
00:43:19,931 --> 00:43:21,433
How do you explain that?
526
00:43:21,433 --> 00:43:23,893
I thought Laurence
was embarrassed about us,
527
00:43:23,893 --> 00:43:27,522
she kept saying I was too old,
I didn't want to push her.
528
00:43:27,522 --> 00:43:29,649
And her jealousy...
529
00:43:30,191 --> 00:43:33,194
I was always afraid
she'd take things the wrong way,
530
00:43:33,194 --> 00:43:35,071
so I avoided certain subjects.
531
00:43:35,071 --> 00:43:38,074
And it was better for Elise, too.
532
00:43:38,908 --> 00:43:41,494
It was simpler for everyone.
533
00:43:46,791 --> 00:43:50,628
You said your relationship deteriorated
534
00:43:50,628 --> 00:43:53,256
before the child's birth.
535
00:43:54,299 --> 00:43:56,551
Didn't you think about contraception?
536
00:43:57,010 --> 00:43:58,094
No.
537
00:43:58,094 --> 00:44:02,223
Laurence told me that due to an illness
she didn't need it.
538
00:44:03,558 --> 00:44:05,018
Didn't you notice her pregnancy?
539
00:44:07,145 --> 00:44:09,814
When did you realize she was pregnant?
540
00:44:09,814 --> 00:44:12,567
Of course I had my suspicions.
541
00:44:12,567 --> 00:44:16,404
But when I asked her,
she systematically denied it.
542
00:44:16,696 --> 00:44:18,865
When she did tell me, it was too late.
543
00:44:20,450 --> 00:44:22,494
I was away a lot.
544
00:44:23,078 --> 00:44:26,373
I went to Clermont often
to visit my brother
545
00:44:26,373 --> 00:44:28,249
who was dying.
546
00:44:31,669 --> 00:44:35,507
Strangely, we were getting on better
at that time.
547
00:44:36,466 --> 00:44:38,802
Laurence seemed calmer.
548
00:44:41,304 --> 00:44:44,557
Then in August,
after one of those visits,
549
00:44:44,557 --> 00:44:47,811
when I returned, Lili was there.
550
00:44:49,396 --> 00:44:53,149
How did you feel when you arrived home
and saw the child?
551
00:44:53,942 --> 00:44:55,693
I was shocked.
552
00:44:56,736 --> 00:45:00,031
I was shocked to find Laurence
in bed with a baby,
553
00:45:00,031 --> 00:45:02,409
I was shocked she hadn't called me.
554
00:45:02,409 --> 00:45:04,160
Yet, I had returned
555
00:45:04,160 --> 00:45:07,664
two days before the delivery date
she had given me.
556
00:45:08,248 --> 00:45:11,876
Soon afterwards, Laurence told me
Lili had to go to Senegal
557
00:45:11,876 --> 00:45:15,380
while she finished her studies
and found a job.
558
00:45:15,755 --> 00:45:19,259
She said I was too old
to look after a baby properly,
559
00:45:19,259 --> 00:45:22,470
that her mother was in Dakar
and would look after Lili.
560
00:45:28,184 --> 00:45:30,812
Your Honor, if I may,
561
00:45:30,812 --> 00:45:33,690
I'd like to talk about Lili.
Nobody has mentioned her.
562
00:45:33,690 --> 00:45:36,484
I'd like to talk about her,
I took care of her.
563
00:45:36,484 --> 00:45:40,822
Each morning, weather permitting,
I took her to the Bois de Vincennes.
564
00:45:41,364 --> 00:45:44,242
The nannies would see me,
565
00:45:44,242 --> 00:45:47,328
occasionally,
one of them would peek into the stroller
566
00:45:47,328 --> 00:45:50,707
and tell me how cute she was.
567
00:45:56,004 --> 00:45:58,214
One day, I...
568
00:45:59,507 --> 00:46:03,094
I was heavy handed with Lili,
it was nothing,
569
00:46:03,094 --> 00:46:07,348
Laurence was furious,
she accused me of not loving her.
570
00:46:07,348 --> 00:46:12,604
I said I'd get a divorce, marry her,
that I'd do anything for her and Lili.
571
00:46:12,604 --> 00:46:14,731
But during her pregnancy,
572
00:46:14,731 --> 00:46:16,399
did you look after Ms. Coly?
573
00:46:16,399 --> 00:46:20,653
Did you go with her to the scans
or doctor's appointments?
574
00:46:22,030 --> 00:46:25,617
No, I didn't know how to,
we didn't do that.
575
00:46:25,617 --> 00:46:29,746
When I had my daughter,
men didn't do those things.
576
00:46:29,746 --> 00:46:32,081
Nor did you acknowledge paternity.
577
00:46:34,209 --> 00:46:37,295
What's more, the first time
the detectives called you,
578
00:46:37,962 --> 00:46:40,590
you answered the phone and you told them,
579
00:46:41,007 --> 00:46:44,469
"Yes, a child lives here,
but I'm not the father."
580
00:46:44,469 --> 00:46:47,639
You told them
it was your girlfriend's daughter.
581
00:46:48,264 --> 00:46:50,517
How do you explain that, Mr. Dumontet?
582
00:46:53,186 --> 00:46:56,439
Laurence always said to me,
"She's mine, she's mine."
583
00:46:57,106 --> 00:47:00,610
When I asked her
if she'd registered the child,
584
00:47:00,610 --> 00:47:03,029
she said she had, but in her name.
585
00:47:04,113 --> 00:47:06,699
I thought perhaps it was for the better,
586
00:47:06,699 --> 00:47:09,327
that it would be complicated for Lili
587
00:47:09,327 --> 00:47:12,747
to bear the name Dumontet, in Senegal.
588
00:47:13,498 --> 00:47:17,627
You never mentioned Lili
to your eldest daughter, Adeline?
589
00:47:22,674 --> 00:47:25,552
I thought it was
too complicated to explain,
590
00:47:25,552 --> 00:47:28,304
she'd just given birth herself...
591
00:47:29,889 --> 00:47:33,810
When Ms. Coly returned without Lili,
you had packed up her baby clothes
592
00:47:33,810 --> 00:47:35,562
to donate them to charity.
593
00:47:35,979 --> 00:47:38,565
You didn't tell a soul about her birth.
594
00:47:39,148 --> 00:47:44,153
You never questioned her mother's decision
to send the child to Senegal.
595
00:47:44,153 --> 00:47:47,991
Ms. Coly claims
you didn't care about Lili and her.
596
00:47:48,950 --> 00:47:51,744
Neither did you attend
the child's funeral.
597
00:47:53,288 --> 00:47:55,790
How should we interpret all that,
Mr. Dumontet?
598
00:47:56,291 --> 00:47:57,625
I don't know.
599
00:47:58,334 --> 00:47:59,836
I don't know.
600
00:48:02,714 --> 00:48:05,008
The funeral was too far away,
601
00:48:05,008 --> 00:48:06,634
I couldn't go there.
602
00:48:10,179 --> 00:48:14,225
The idea of Lili's death
was rather abstract for me.
603
00:48:14,225 --> 00:48:16,185
It's hard to grasp.
604
00:48:17,854 --> 00:48:21,316
I don't know, I don't know!
605
00:48:26,195 --> 00:48:28,865
Does the Prosecuting Attorney
have any questions?
606
00:48:29,866 --> 00:48:33,077
Mr. Dumontet, I do not doubt
607
00:48:33,077 --> 00:48:36,164
your good intentions towards Ms. Coly.
608
00:48:36,497 --> 00:48:39,083
When she moved in with you,
her situation was critical.
609
00:48:39,083 --> 00:48:41,544
She was jobless, homeless,
610
00:48:41,544 --> 00:48:44,631
she wasn't even studying.
You took her in.
611
00:48:44,631 --> 00:48:48,926
You found her a job,
enabled her to go back to her studies,
612
00:48:49,636 --> 00:48:52,013
you even funded her studies.
613
00:48:52,764 --> 00:48:55,391
What didn't you do for this woman?
614
00:48:55,391 --> 00:48:56,434
And she...
615
00:48:56,726 --> 00:48:58,353
in return,
616
00:48:58,353 --> 00:49:01,022
I would love to know
what Ms. Coly gave you.
617
00:49:01,022 --> 00:49:05,026
While I don't doubt
your love for this woman,
618
00:49:05,026 --> 00:49:10,073
did she not move in with you
purely out of self-interest?
619
00:49:13,534 --> 00:49:16,120
No, I don't think so.
620
00:49:17,997 --> 00:49:21,959
I believe we were genuinely in love.
621
00:49:27,048 --> 00:49:28,257
Counselor.
622
00:49:33,763 --> 00:49:38,768
Mr. Dumontet, do you believe you have
moral responsibility in this case?
623
00:49:41,354 --> 00:49:42,355
Yes.
624
00:49:43,147 --> 00:49:46,025
I am responsible for everything.
625
00:49:47,151 --> 00:49:51,114
I blame myself for everything,
I didn't protect Lili.
626
00:49:53,658 --> 00:49:56,953
I am paying for that.
I can never make amends.
627
00:49:58,413 --> 00:50:00,665
I've lost everything.
My life is worthless.
628
00:50:00,665 --> 00:50:03,710
My gown is black, Mr. Dumontet, not red.
629
00:50:03,710 --> 00:50:06,003
My role is not to judge you.
630
00:50:06,796 --> 00:50:09,132
But I will talk of your cowardice,
631
00:50:09,465 --> 00:50:12,510
your lack of involvement
in your daughter's birth.
632
00:50:13,177 --> 00:50:14,887
You didn't want the pregnancy.
633
00:50:15,304 --> 00:50:17,014
You didn't want the child.
634
00:50:17,014 --> 00:50:20,309
You had no intention
of changing your life in any way.
635
00:50:21,060 --> 00:50:24,814
You claim to speak of Lili,
but you speak only of yourself.
636
00:50:25,898 --> 00:50:28,818
Laurence Coly's distress
was staring you in the face,
637
00:50:28,818 --> 00:50:30,695
but you chose to turn a blind eye,
638
00:50:30,695 --> 00:50:33,239
because you didn't want to see it.
639
00:50:33,239 --> 00:50:35,283
Because you didn't care.
640
00:50:51,674 --> 00:50:53,384
Thank you, Mr. Dumontet.
641
00:51:08,191 --> 00:51:09,859
Stand up, Ms. Coly.
642
00:51:12,236 --> 00:51:13,196
Ms. Coly,
643
00:51:13,654 --> 00:51:16,449
how are your prison conditions?
644
00:51:19,786 --> 00:51:21,204
It's calm.
645
00:51:21,913 --> 00:51:24,165
For the first three months,
646
00:51:24,165 --> 00:51:26,250
I didn't leave my cell.
647
00:51:28,586 --> 00:51:30,505
I was afraid to go out alone.
648
00:51:33,090 --> 00:51:34,342
Then...
649
00:51:35,593 --> 00:51:39,597
it was only after two or three months,
650
00:51:40,306 --> 00:51:42,600
that I began to have contact with others.
651
00:51:44,560 --> 00:51:48,564
The report from Sequedin prison
describes you as calm,
652
00:51:48,564 --> 00:51:52,109
smiling, undemanding and very respectful.
653
00:51:54,195 --> 00:51:55,238
Yes.
654
00:51:56,572 --> 00:52:00,034
Generally speaking,
my imprisonment is very dignified.
655
00:52:02,078 --> 00:52:04,080
A few months after your arrival,
656
00:52:04,580 --> 00:52:06,624
you mentioned some bullying.
657
00:52:15,675 --> 00:52:18,511
A woman who has killed her baby
658
00:52:19,136 --> 00:52:21,597
can't really expect any sympathy.
659
00:52:23,432 --> 00:52:25,268
I shared their horror.
660
00:52:30,481 --> 00:52:32,275
The hearing is adjourned.
661
00:53:54,899 --> 00:53:58,152
- Excuse me, I don't know your name.
- Rama.
662
00:53:59,904 --> 00:54:01,197
Pleased to meet you.
663
00:54:27,264 --> 00:54:28,808
This is my hotel.
664
00:54:31,394 --> 00:54:33,354
Mine is a bit further on.
665
00:54:35,022 --> 00:54:37,191
- See you tomorrow.
- Yes.
666
00:54:37,942 --> 00:54:41,070
I would have liked us
to eat together tonight,
667
00:54:41,070 --> 00:54:44,865
but it's a little late
and I need to sleep.
668
00:54:44,865 --> 00:54:45,992
Of course.
669
00:54:46,575 --> 00:54:49,370
We could have lunch tomorrow
if you want.
670
00:54:49,370 --> 00:54:51,372
OK. With pleasure.
671
00:54:52,289 --> 00:54:53,582
See you tomorrow.
672
00:54:53,582 --> 00:54:55,084
Good evening.
673
00:55:29,035 --> 00:55:31,704
- Hello, Jean-Claude.
- Hi, Rama.
674
00:55:31,704 --> 00:55:34,749
Sorry, I didn't have time
to call you back earlier.
675
00:55:34,749 --> 00:55:36,333
Don't worry, it's OK.
676
00:55:36,667 --> 00:55:39,545
How is the trial? What is she like?
677
00:55:40,296 --> 00:55:42,173
She sounds fascinating.
678
00:55:42,590 --> 00:55:46,052
The press says she talks
in a very sophisticated French.
679
00:55:46,052 --> 00:55:49,263
She talks like an educated woman,
that's all.
680
00:55:49,263 --> 00:55:51,390
That's true, you're right.
681
00:55:52,308 --> 00:55:55,269
So, it went really well this morning.
682
00:55:55,269 --> 00:55:57,813
Everyone is raving about your project.
683
00:55:58,189 --> 00:56:00,858
They're just not sure about the title.
684
00:56:00,858 --> 00:56:03,611
They think "Medea Castaway"
isn't very evocative.
685
00:56:03,611 --> 00:56:06,238
Not everyone knows the story of Medea.
686
00:56:06,238 --> 00:56:09,241
They think it should refer to the trial.
687
00:56:09,241 --> 00:56:12,119
I told them it was a working title.
688
00:56:12,953 --> 00:56:16,165
But doesn't everyone know
the story of Medea?
689
00:56:18,250 --> 00:56:19,335
Well, OK.
690
00:56:19,835 --> 00:56:22,546
I'm not at all worried, you go for it.
691
00:56:22,880 --> 00:56:26,133
I'll read it when you're ready.
I just wanted to give you the news
692
00:56:26,133 --> 00:56:29,887
and to tell you we're thrilled
with the sales of your last book.
693
00:56:29,887 --> 00:56:32,973
We received the figures,
it's very impressive.
694
00:56:32,973 --> 00:56:35,059
We were well received by the press.
695
00:56:37,019 --> 00:56:38,854
That's great. Wonderful.
696
00:56:39,647 --> 00:56:42,191
Come see me when you get back.
697
00:56:42,608 --> 00:56:43,984
We'll have lunch.
698
00:56:43,984 --> 00:56:47,113
With pleasure. Thank you for the update.
699
00:56:47,113 --> 00:56:48,531
Well, see you soon.
700
00:56:49,281 --> 00:56:51,200
- See you soon.
- Goodbye.
701
00:57:11,262 --> 00:57:13,264
He didn't introduce me to anyone.
702
00:57:14,098 --> 00:57:17,393
Luc lunched with his wife once a week,
I had no say in it.
703
00:57:18,144 --> 00:57:21,188
I don't know what he told her about me,
he wouldn't say.
704
00:57:22,731 --> 00:57:24,942
I didn't exist when she was around.
705
00:57:25,860 --> 00:57:29,196
He said they were just friends
but I didn't know if it was true.
706
00:57:30,072 --> 00:57:32,199
I wasn't invited
to his daughter's wedding,
707
00:57:32,199 --> 00:57:34,368
but he did ask me to cook the meal.
708
00:57:34,368 --> 00:57:38,289
When the party began at the studio,
Luc booked me into a hotel.
709
00:57:39,081 --> 00:57:41,417
He slipped me out through the back door.
710
00:57:41,417 --> 00:57:43,419
She was a wonderful mother,
711
00:57:43,419 --> 00:57:46,130
the way she took care of Lili...
712
00:57:46,130 --> 00:57:48,257
She massaged her every day.
713
00:57:50,384 --> 00:57:53,971
Lili was loved by both of us.
714
00:57:57,141 --> 00:58:02,021
Laurence said earlier, that you were
reluctant for her to move in with you.
715
00:58:02,021 --> 00:58:03,522
Do you agree?
716
00:58:06,859 --> 00:58:10,321
How would you describe
your relationship with your mother?
717
00:58:11,488 --> 00:58:13,991
When I was young,
my mother was often absent.
718
00:58:14,450 --> 00:58:17,703
She worked hard, she was always tired.
719
00:58:18,746 --> 00:58:21,916
Even if she had high expectations of me,
720
00:58:24,668 --> 00:58:27,546
- there was always a distance between us.
- Meaning?
721
00:58:28,464 --> 00:58:30,424
What do you mean by "distance"?
722
00:58:31,800 --> 00:58:33,302
I don't know.
723
00:58:35,429 --> 00:58:37,306
We don't have much in common.
724
00:58:37,848 --> 00:58:39,975
We're not interested in the same things.
725
00:58:40,809 --> 00:58:42,269
We are very different.
726
01:00:37,259 --> 01:00:38,886
Stand up, Ms. Coly.
727
01:00:42,890 --> 01:00:44,433
Ms. Coly,
728
01:00:44,433 --> 01:00:47,269
you often refer
to the extreme loneliness
729
01:00:47,269 --> 01:00:49,563
of your situation before Elise's birth.
730
01:00:50,522 --> 01:00:52,066
How did you spend your days?
731
01:00:52,066 --> 01:00:55,486
You no longer went to classes,
what did you do?
732
01:00:56,820 --> 01:01:00,074
I had never felt so low
as the year before Lili's birth.
733
01:01:02,284 --> 01:01:04,161
I was becoming very depressed.
734
01:01:06,246 --> 01:01:09,625
I spent hours walking in the woods.
735
01:01:11,460 --> 01:01:15,089
I liked walking in the woods,
nobody bothered me there.
736
01:01:16,006 --> 01:01:18,717
In the studio,
the silence was different.
737
01:01:19,760 --> 01:01:21,387
I was afraid to be alone there.
738
01:01:21,387 --> 01:01:23,055
What were you afraid of?
739
01:01:24,890 --> 01:01:26,975
The atmosphere was becoming hostile.
740
01:01:28,560 --> 01:01:31,688
For months,
I couldn't get out of bed in the morning.
741
01:01:32,523 --> 01:01:35,984
I couldn't lift my head up,
I suffered from headaches.
742
01:01:42,408 --> 01:01:44,076
And from blurred vision.
743
01:01:47,037 --> 01:01:50,207
I heard strange noises
like echoes in the walls.
744
01:01:51,583 --> 01:01:54,169
My feet were throbbing, I couldn't walk.
745
01:01:55,754 --> 01:01:59,091
When I talked to Luc about it,
he didn't want to know,
746
01:01:59,508 --> 01:02:00,843
he didn't listen to me.
747
01:02:01,510 --> 01:02:04,138
He was obsessed with his sick brother,
he ignored me.
748
01:02:04,138 --> 01:02:06,432
Did you consult a doctor?
749
01:02:07,266 --> 01:02:11,061
I saw a physiotherapist
and an osteopath, but that didn't help.
750
01:02:12,563 --> 01:02:15,524
Sorcery was the only logical conclusion.
751
01:02:16,650 --> 01:02:18,819
I consulted various
752
01:02:19,611 --> 01:02:23,949
clairvoyants by telephone,
everything they said made sense.
753
01:02:25,284 --> 01:02:26,910
So I trusted them.
754
01:02:27,369 --> 01:02:29,663
Yet the investigation found
755
01:02:29,663 --> 01:02:33,750
that none of the clairvoyants
you supposedly consulted remembers you.
756
01:02:34,710 --> 01:02:36,962
The officers found no trace
757
01:02:37,212 --> 01:02:39,006
of any financial transactions.
758
01:02:39,006 --> 01:02:43,177
Neither do your telephone records
show any trace of the calls.
759
01:02:43,177 --> 01:02:45,137
But I did call them.
760
01:02:45,137 --> 01:02:47,473
I'm surprised they don't remember me.
761
01:02:47,473 --> 01:02:50,684
I called one every day at 7 a.m.
Her name is Patricia.
762
01:02:51,602 --> 01:02:54,271
Patricia Antonia testified.
763
01:02:55,063 --> 01:02:56,732
She doesn't remember you.
764
01:03:00,694 --> 01:03:02,946
I don't know why she says that.
765
01:03:04,448 --> 01:03:05,866
I told her everything.
766
01:03:07,242 --> 01:03:09,244
I felt she understood me.
767
01:03:13,081 --> 01:03:15,083
When I told her about my dream
768
01:03:16,126 --> 01:03:19,296
in which giant butterflies
invaded the studio, she got it.
769
01:03:20,255 --> 01:03:22,174
She said people wanted to hurt me.
770
01:03:22,174 --> 01:03:24,676
How is there no proof?
771
01:03:24,676 --> 01:03:26,762
Not a single telephone record.
772
01:03:28,388 --> 01:03:29,556
I don't know.
773
01:03:30,724 --> 01:03:35,103
You say your problems began
one year before Elise was born.
774
01:03:35,103 --> 01:03:38,690
Roughly the time Elise was conceived,
is that correct?
775
01:03:39,107 --> 01:03:41,818
Yes, perhaps. That might be so.
776
01:03:42,402 --> 01:03:43,570
I don't remember the dates.
777
01:03:43,570 --> 01:03:48,116
Did you deliberately conceal
your pregnancy?
778
01:03:49,451 --> 01:03:52,496
I acted as if I wasn't pregnant,
I didn't try to conceal it.
779
01:03:53,038 --> 01:03:56,458
When you fell pregnant,
did you consult a doctor?
780
01:03:56,458 --> 01:03:58,961
I didn't see a doctor,
I didn't tell anyone.
781
01:04:00,337 --> 01:04:02,172
Tell us about the birth.
782
01:04:03,632 --> 01:04:05,384
Lili was born at the studio, I was alone.
783
01:04:05,384 --> 01:04:07,010
Why didn't you go to hospital?
784
01:04:07,010 --> 01:04:09,179
I don't know, I was in a black hole.
785
01:04:10,222 --> 01:04:11,765
I didn't go out.
786
01:04:12,599 --> 01:04:14,268
I didn't see anyone.
787
01:04:15,143 --> 01:04:16,937
I was afraid, I wanted to protect Lili.
788
01:04:16,937 --> 01:04:18,730
Protect her from what?
789
01:04:18,730 --> 01:04:20,232
From malicious intent.
790
01:04:24,278 --> 01:04:28,490
What was your frame of mind
just before the birth?
791
01:04:35,497 --> 01:04:36,915
I was worried.
792
01:04:40,210 --> 01:04:41,878
I was scared of not succeeding.
793
01:04:41,878 --> 01:04:44,006
Had you prepared for the birth?
794
01:04:48,510 --> 01:04:49,636
Yes.
795
01:04:51,722 --> 01:04:54,016
I think I prepared for it at some point.
796
01:04:59,605 --> 01:05:01,940
I researched how to do it.
797
01:05:03,358 --> 01:05:07,696
I asked my mom, without telling her why,
how to care for a newborn.
798
01:05:16,455 --> 01:05:18,165
Lili was born during the night.
799
01:05:19,082 --> 01:05:21,126
On August 9, 2014, at 4:44 a.m.
800
01:05:21,126 --> 01:05:22,794
Did you feel alone?
801
01:05:31,678 --> 01:05:33,680
When I had the first contractions,
802
01:05:35,015 --> 01:05:36,683
I could feel she was coming.
803
01:05:37,976 --> 01:05:39,645
I was agitated but...
804
01:05:40,437 --> 01:05:42,439
it was a special moment for me.
805
01:05:44,441 --> 01:05:46,610
When she was born, I was in awe.
806
01:05:48,820 --> 01:05:50,656
I was entranced by that tiny creature.
807
01:05:50,656 --> 01:05:54,284
Didn't you worry that this secret birth
might go wrong?
808
01:05:55,577 --> 01:05:57,954
Lili didn't seem to be in trouble.
809
01:05:57,954 --> 01:05:59,998
She barely cried.
810
01:06:01,083 --> 01:06:04,544
There was this incredible serenity
about her.
811
01:06:04,836 --> 01:06:07,422
When you felt the first contractions,
812
01:06:07,422 --> 01:06:10,008
why didn't you inform Luc Dumontet?
813
01:06:10,008 --> 01:06:11,468
Luc was in Auvergne.
814
01:06:11,843 --> 01:06:13,303
Yet he'd promised to be with me.
815
01:06:13,303 --> 01:06:15,931
- Did you tell him the date?
- Yes.
816
01:06:16,223 --> 01:06:17,974
Yet in your statement
817
01:06:18,725 --> 01:06:21,395
you said you weren't sure
of the date of conception.
818
01:06:21,395 --> 01:06:23,897
I knew when my daughter was conceived.
819
01:06:25,816 --> 01:06:28,318
Luc promised
he'd be back in time for the birth.
820
01:06:28,318 --> 01:06:30,445
When Lili was born,
821
01:06:31,029 --> 01:06:34,157
you didn't call Mr. Dumontet
to tell him to come.
822
01:06:36,076 --> 01:06:37,828
I didn't think it was necessary.
823
01:06:39,996 --> 01:06:41,790
I wanted that moment for myself.
824
01:06:41,790 --> 01:06:46,336
What did you tell him when he came back
and saw you with Lili?
825
01:06:51,675 --> 01:06:52,968
Luc arrived,
826
01:06:55,011 --> 01:06:56,930
he saw me holding a baby.
827
01:06:59,558 --> 01:07:02,102
He came over and looked at the child.
828
01:07:08,400 --> 01:07:09,651
He seemed
829
01:07:10,235 --> 01:07:11,570
appalled,
830
01:07:12,112 --> 01:07:13,280
speechless.
831
01:07:15,699 --> 01:07:17,701
When he finally spoke, he said,
832
01:07:17,701 --> 01:07:19,411
"Are you sure she's mine?"
833
01:07:21,037 --> 01:07:23,290
I said to him, "Don't worry,
834
01:07:24,875 --> 01:07:26,209
"she's mine."
835
01:07:28,837 --> 01:07:32,591
I was upset he questioned his paternity
so I said she was mine.
836
01:07:35,552 --> 01:07:39,097
I was in a state of beatitude
and his words were so vulgar,
837
01:07:39,389 --> 01:07:41,850
I found it deeply insulting.
838
01:07:41,850 --> 01:07:45,145
What did you tell him about the birth?
839
01:07:45,604 --> 01:07:47,981
That I'd given birth
at Les Bluets clinic.
840
01:07:47,981 --> 01:07:49,691
You told him
841
01:07:49,691 --> 01:07:51,860
that you had registered Lili's birth.
842
01:07:52,277 --> 01:07:54,404
Why didn't you do so?
843
01:07:54,404 --> 01:07:56,490
I didn't register her
844
01:07:57,532 --> 01:07:59,493
because I gave birth at home,
845
01:08:00,744 --> 01:08:02,579
because I never left the studio,
846
01:08:02,579 --> 01:08:04,706
and because it didn't even occur to me.
847
01:08:06,666 --> 01:08:09,795
Luc asked me if I'd registered her,
I don't know why I lied.
848
01:08:09,795 --> 01:08:12,214
What was your life with Elise like?
849
01:08:16,301 --> 01:08:18,053
At first, I didn't take her out.
850
01:08:18,595 --> 01:08:20,639
My days were structured around her.
851
01:08:20,931 --> 01:08:23,308
She was calm, she barely cried.
852
01:08:25,018 --> 01:08:27,312
My routine was shaped by Lili's needs.
853
01:08:27,312 --> 01:08:29,147
- Did you breastfeed her?
- Yes.
854
01:08:29,981 --> 01:08:32,108
When did you take her out of the studio?
855
01:08:34,194 --> 01:08:37,239
I didn't take her out
for at least six months.
856
01:08:38,865 --> 01:08:41,409
Luc was a bit more present at that time,
857
01:08:41,409 --> 01:08:43,745
as soon as Lili could hold her head up,
858
01:08:43,745 --> 01:08:44,996
he began to take her out.
859
01:08:44,996 --> 01:08:47,833
But you,
nobody ever saw you with the baby.
860
01:08:48,124 --> 01:08:50,627
Nobody saw me pregnant or with the baby.
861
01:08:50,919 --> 01:08:52,671
I barely left the studio.
862
01:08:53,588 --> 01:08:56,716
Did you buy any baby equipment?
863
01:08:56,716 --> 01:08:57,968
Not much.
864
01:08:57,968 --> 01:09:00,679
A few child care items,
865
01:09:00,679 --> 01:09:03,306
a bouncy chair, baby clothes.
866
01:09:05,934 --> 01:09:08,144
Keeping her birth a secret,
867
01:09:08,144 --> 01:09:11,481
was that a decision
you took with Luc Dumontet?
868
01:09:11,481 --> 01:09:13,900
I don't remember it that way.
869
01:09:13,900 --> 01:09:16,486
- Why didn't he tell anyone?
- I don't know.
870
01:09:16,486 --> 01:09:20,407
Early on, you told him that
your mother would take Lili to Senegal.
871
01:09:20,407 --> 01:09:21,825
I said it as he was worried.
872
01:09:21,825 --> 01:09:23,994
You told him, "She's mine."
873
01:09:24,744 --> 01:09:27,163
Did you decide Lili's future all alone?
874
01:09:27,163 --> 01:09:29,624
The plan to send her to Senegal?
875
01:09:29,624 --> 01:09:32,794
I said that because
Luc didn't want a child at the studio.
876
01:09:32,794 --> 01:09:35,005
- Was Lili ever sick?
- No.
877
01:09:35,005 --> 01:09:36,423
Yes, she was.
878
01:09:36,423 --> 01:09:38,049
She had chicken pox.
879
01:09:38,633 --> 01:09:40,468
Did you take her to the doctor?
880
01:09:42,262 --> 01:09:43,388
No.
881
01:09:45,599 --> 01:09:48,059
Does the Prosecuting Attorney
have any questions?
882
01:09:49,227 --> 01:09:52,439
Ms. Coly, you have strung us along
from the start.
883
01:09:53,982 --> 01:09:57,694
You distance yourself
from the questions asked.
884
01:09:57,694 --> 01:10:01,615
You avoid the awkward questions
and you lie to us.
885
01:10:01,615 --> 01:10:03,283
Do you take us for fools?
886
01:10:04,075 --> 01:10:06,369
You didn't love Luc Dumontet.
887
01:10:06,369 --> 01:10:10,248
You didn't want a child with him,
you didn't want the pregnancy.
888
01:10:10,248 --> 01:10:13,501
You deliberately concealed
the child's existence.
889
01:10:13,919 --> 01:10:17,047
You told nobody about her,
not even your mother.
890
01:10:17,047 --> 01:10:18,506
The truth...
891
01:10:18,506 --> 01:10:22,218
is that you killed the child
because she got in your way.
892
01:10:22,218 --> 01:10:25,430
That's nonsense.
Can you read my mind or my heart?
893
01:10:25,430 --> 01:10:28,516
You think as I might get a life sentence
I'm going to lie?
894
01:10:28,516 --> 01:10:30,018
What have I got to lose?
895
01:10:30,352 --> 01:10:32,520
Please, ma'am, sorcery?
896
01:10:32,520 --> 01:10:34,189
You are lying to yourself.
897
01:10:34,189 --> 01:10:36,066
Yes, I speak of sorcery.
898
01:10:36,399 --> 01:10:38,401
Why would I torment myself like that?
899
01:10:38,401 --> 01:10:39,945
Killing my daughter
900
01:10:39,945 --> 01:10:41,404
ruined my life.
901
01:10:43,073 --> 01:10:44,824
Am I merely being dishonest?
902
01:10:47,327 --> 01:10:49,537
When I speak of sorcery, I'm not lying.
903
01:10:52,457 --> 01:10:55,752
Not even a dead-drunk idiot
would have done what I did.
904
01:10:56,753 --> 01:10:58,630
And they say I'm intelligent.
905
01:10:59,881 --> 01:11:01,675
So why did I do it?
906
01:14:09,195 --> 01:14:10,405
Hello?
907
01:14:10,405 --> 01:14:13,825
Hello, this is reception.
A lady is asking for you.
908
01:14:51,613 --> 01:14:53,072
Hello.
909
01:15:16,763 --> 01:15:19,474
Hello, are you ready to order?
910
01:15:19,474 --> 01:15:22,435
Hello, I'll have the carpaccio.
911
01:15:22,435 --> 01:15:24,562
- And you?
- Steak and fries.
912
01:15:24,562 --> 01:15:25,688
OK.
913
01:15:25,688 --> 01:15:27,315
That's a lot.
914
01:15:27,315 --> 01:15:29,442
Why don't you have the fish?
915
01:15:31,027 --> 01:15:32,779
And half a pint, please.
916
01:15:32,779 --> 01:15:35,114
- I'll be right back.
- Thank you.
917
01:15:48,878 --> 01:15:51,256
This must be hard for you.
918
01:15:53,049 --> 01:15:54,842
Well, I trust in God.
919
01:15:56,594 --> 01:15:59,180
Have you seen all the press coverage?
920
01:15:59,180 --> 01:16:01,015
It's incredible.
921
01:16:06,062 --> 01:16:07,981
Laurence should be careful.
922
01:16:08,398 --> 01:16:10,650
She was rude this morning.
923
01:16:11,734 --> 01:16:14,404
I don't understand
why her attorney didn't advise her.
924
01:16:15,989 --> 01:16:18,449
It makes a bad impression.
925
01:16:18,449 --> 01:16:21,953
Education and politesse
are the two most important things.
926
01:16:22,829 --> 01:16:25,081
That's how I raised Laurence.
927
01:16:25,081 --> 01:16:26,958
And it always helped her.
928
01:16:27,458 --> 01:16:30,920
People talk about her appearance
and the way she talks.
929
01:16:32,213 --> 01:16:34,215
That means she was well brought up.
930
01:16:34,215 --> 01:16:36,467
- Here you are.
- Thank you.
931
01:16:48,104 --> 01:16:50,398
- Were you born here?
- Yes.
932
01:16:50,898 --> 01:16:52,734
Are your parents here too?
933
01:16:53,234 --> 01:16:55,403
My father's dead but my mother is here.
934
01:16:56,362 --> 01:16:59,407
- Any brothers or sisters?
- I have two sisters.
935
01:17:07,540 --> 01:17:09,459
How many months pregnant are you?
936
01:17:17,258 --> 01:17:18,593
Four months.
937
01:17:20,261 --> 01:17:22,263
I guessed as soon as I saw you.
938
01:17:22,680 --> 01:17:24,682
I'm very good at that.
939
01:17:31,898 --> 01:17:33,024
Here you are.
940
01:17:34,442 --> 01:17:35,735
Enjoy your meal.
941
01:18:42,677 --> 01:18:45,054
No, I said I was planning
to do a thesis.
942
01:18:45,054 --> 01:18:47,265
I never said I was a PhD student.
943
01:18:47,265 --> 01:18:49,434
That's not entirely true, Ms. Coly.
944
01:18:49,434 --> 01:18:52,645
From the start,
you claimed to be a PhD student.
945
01:18:52,645 --> 01:18:55,690
That's what you told everyone,
the police,
946
01:18:55,690 --> 01:18:57,650
Luc Dumontet, your family.
947
01:18:58,818 --> 01:19:01,279
I attended the classes,
for me, it was the same thing.
948
01:19:01,988 --> 01:19:03,322
Mrs. Jobard,
949
01:19:03,322 --> 01:19:06,242
you stated that Ms. Coly,
didn't complete her degree.
950
01:19:06,242 --> 01:19:09,245
That's right.
She didn't complete the year
951
01:19:09,245 --> 01:19:11,372
because she didn't hand in her work.
952
01:19:11,372 --> 01:19:14,750
She sent me an email
saying that she couldn't do it
953
01:19:14,750 --> 01:19:18,045
as she was in hospital in Senegal,
but I didn't believe that.
954
01:19:18,546 --> 01:19:19,922
Ms. Coly?
955
01:19:20,381 --> 01:19:22,300
I don't remember saying that.
956
01:19:22,550 --> 01:19:24,927
What was Ms. Coly like as a student?
957
01:19:24,927 --> 01:19:28,681
What struck me was the ease
and eloquence of her speech
958
01:19:28,681 --> 01:19:31,142
compared to her written work.
959
01:19:31,142 --> 01:19:35,771
She spoke with ease,
but on the page, she wasn't convincing,
960
01:19:35,771 --> 01:19:37,690
as if her thoughts weren't clear.
961
01:19:39,525 --> 01:19:40,776
Ms. Coly,
962
01:19:41,277 --> 01:19:46,157
you claimed to be writing a thesis
on Wittgenstein, the philosopher.
963
01:19:46,908 --> 01:19:48,493
Why Wittgenstein?
964
01:19:49,035 --> 01:19:50,244
I don't know.
965
01:19:52,288 --> 01:19:54,916
Mrs. Jobard,
what do you make of this choice?
966
01:19:54,916 --> 01:19:56,167
She is making it up.
967
01:19:57,293 --> 01:20:01,380
What is curious is that Wittgenstein's
is a philosophy of language,
968
01:20:01,380 --> 01:20:06,260
but I think she is hiding behind
a philosophy that is not about her.
969
01:20:06,260 --> 01:20:09,222
What do you mean by,
"A philosophy that is not about her?"
970
01:20:09,972 --> 01:20:14,602
Isn't it rather odd, an African woman
interested in an Austrian philosopher
971
01:20:14,602 --> 01:20:19,398
from the early 20th century, why not
choose someone closer to her own culture?
972
01:20:24,070 --> 01:20:25,821
Thank you, Mrs. Jobard.
973
01:20:31,744 --> 01:20:35,373
You must remain standing
during the proceedings, ma'am.
974
01:20:42,505 --> 01:20:44,799
The university told the investigators
975
01:20:44,799 --> 01:20:48,219
you obtained a general studies diploma
after two years.
976
01:20:48,761 --> 01:20:52,139
After that,
you enrolled for a bachelor's degree,
977
01:20:52,139 --> 01:20:56,561
but you didn't complete it.
So you only have the general diploma.
978
01:20:57,728 --> 01:20:58,771
If you say so.
979
01:20:59,146 --> 01:21:01,274
I told you I attended the classes.
980
01:21:01,274 --> 01:21:04,068
I thought I had a bachelor's degree.
981
01:21:04,068 --> 01:21:07,530
Surely you knew
you didn't have a bachelor's degree.
982
01:21:07,530 --> 01:21:09,865
You didn't turn up for any of the exams.
983
01:21:23,504 --> 01:21:27,508
I was caught in a web of lies
at that time.
984
01:21:31,887 --> 01:21:33,598
Later on, it collapsed.
985
01:21:39,895 --> 01:21:41,397
Any questions?
986
01:21:47,695 --> 01:21:50,489
Ms. Coly, are you talented?
987
01:21:50,740 --> 01:21:52,158
I don't know.
988
01:21:52,158 --> 01:21:55,119
- As a child, were you a good student?
- Yes.
989
01:21:55,828 --> 01:22:00,458
Were you a perfect little girl,
overidealized in your parents' eyes?
990
01:22:00,458 --> 01:22:02,543
I don't know, you should ask them.
991
01:22:02,543 --> 01:22:06,005
What were your secret ambitions
when you came to France?
992
01:22:07,381 --> 01:22:09,175
I wanted to leave my mark.
993
01:22:09,717 --> 01:22:13,429
I've always been impressed
by the great thinkers
994
01:22:13,888 --> 01:22:16,515
who shed light on the world
through their thoughts.
995
01:22:17,558 --> 01:22:19,685
I dreamed of becoming
a great philosopher.
996
01:22:20,019 --> 01:22:21,812
My ambition was cut short.
997
01:22:22,355 --> 01:22:23,814
Certain things
998
01:22:25,399 --> 01:22:27,276
made me stray from my path.
999
01:22:30,071 --> 01:22:31,572
No further questions.
1000
01:22:37,411 --> 01:22:39,830
Counselor Darcourt, we are listening.
1001
01:22:41,540 --> 01:22:43,000
Ms. Coly,
1002
01:22:44,001 --> 01:22:46,253
you mentioned a web of lies.
1003
01:22:46,962 --> 01:22:48,756
Have you escaped from it now?
1004
01:22:48,756 --> 01:22:50,716
Isn't the death of my daughter enough?
1005
01:22:51,175 --> 01:22:55,304
I consider your reply intolerable,
it is not worthy.
1006
01:22:55,304 --> 01:22:57,848
And it is unacceptable in a courthouse!
1007
01:22:57,848 --> 01:23:00,685
- Sir, I am being frank.
- It is hard to understand you.
1008
01:23:00,685 --> 01:23:03,229
Your persistent ambiguity...
1009
01:23:03,229 --> 01:23:07,108
I'm not being ambiguous.
Some things, we can't be clear about.
1010
01:23:07,108 --> 01:23:08,401
And...
1011
01:23:10,945 --> 01:23:13,447
If I'm lying, I can't know why.
1012
01:23:18,327 --> 01:23:21,622
Mrs. Diatta,
I'd like to ask you a few questions.
1013
01:23:29,046 --> 01:23:30,339
Mrs. Diatta.
1014
01:23:30,589 --> 01:23:35,428
When Laurence was pregnant, you spoke
twice a week, yet she didn't tell you.
1015
01:23:36,387 --> 01:23:38,139
How do you explain that?
1016
01:23:40,141 --> 01:23:41,517
Mrs. Diatta?
1017
01:23:45,146 --> 01:23:47,356
Why do you think she didn't tell you?
1018
01:23:47,898 --> 01:23:51,610
Both during the pregnancy
and after the child was born,
1019
01:23:52,528 --> 01:23:56,949
you never heard any crying or babbling?
1020
01:23:58,451 --> 01:23:59,535
No.
1021
01:24:00,369 --> 01:24:02,037
She didn't tell me.
1022
01:24:02,663 --> 01:24:04,498
I don't understand.
1023
01:24:05,040 --> 01:24:08,169
That void, the void inside her,
1024
01:24:08,169 --> 01:24:10,087
it was made deliberately.
1025
01:24:13,174 --> 01:24:14,967
Before you Westerners,
1026
01:24:14,967 --> 01:24:16,510
I can't explain it.
1027
01:24:16,510 --> 01:24:19,305
Explain what, Mrs. Diatta?
1028
01:24:21,974 --> 01:24:26,228
I came to wonder,
who they wanted to hurt in this case,
1029
01:24:26,854 --> 01:24:28,063
Laurence,
1030
01:24:28,814 --> 01:24:31,192
her father, or me?
1031
01:24:31,942 --> 01:24:33,861
It was all orchestrated.
1032
01:24:34,904 --> 01:24:36,572
I can hear you smiling.
1033
01:24:36,906 --> 01:24:39,533
But it doesn't make me laugh.
1034
01:24:40,367 --> 01:24:42,578
Sorcery was involved, I promise you.
1035
01:24:42,578 --> 01:24:44,330
A curse even.
1036
01:24:44,830 --> 01:24:48,000
Since my daughter left Senegal,
nothing went well for her.
1037
01:24:49,668 --> 01:24:52,880
In my opinion,
nothing else can explain her failure.
1038
01:24:54,131 --> 01:24:56,634
I even have proof of mystical blockages.
1039
01:24:58,093 --> 01:25:01,639
It was no accident that I couldn't
see my daughter for two years.
1040
01:25:02,556 --> 01:25:03,891
How about that?
1041
01:25:04,183 --> 01:25:05,810
How do you explain that?
1042
01:25:17,988 --> 01:25:20,908
Would the bailiff bring in
the investigating judge,
1043
01:25:20,908 --> 01:25:23,410
Mr. Simon Jonquet.
1044
01:25:44,223 --> 01:25:47,935
Sir, you were assigned
to investigate Mrs. Coly's case
1045
01:25:47,935 --> 01:25:51,105
when the Public Prosecutor
brought her before the court.
1046
01:25:51,605 --> 01:25:55,067
You interviewed her
on November 20, 2015.
1047
01:25:55,609 --> 01:25:59,822
How did the issue of sorcery
come up during the interview?
1048
01:26:02,825 --> 01:26:07,454
Before me is a woman who killed her baby
in circumstances that are shocking
1049
01:26:07,454 --> 01:26:09,248
by our standards.
1050
01:26:10,082 --> 01:26:14,253
I tried to ascertain whether
the cultural aspect played a part.
1051
01:26:15,296 --> 01:26:17,923
I wondered if there was something
she couldn't say
1052
01:26:17,923 --> 01:26:20,593
and asked her to draw on her culture
to try to explain.
1053
01:26:21,677 --> 01:26:25,389
Sir, do you not think
that you opened the door to sorcery
1054
01:26:25,389 --> 01:26:27,892
and that Ms. Coly dived in?
1055
01:26:30,102 --> 01:26:33,063
Before me stood a woman
of African origin.
1056
01:26:33,063 --> 01:26:36,525
I tried to understand her
with the available elements.
1057
01:26:36,525 --> 01:26:38,360
As with Female Genital Mutilation,
1058
01:26:38,360 --> 01:26:41,989
we cannot judge without taking
the ethnological aspect into account.
1059
01:26:42,448 --> 01:26:47,411
Sir, the example of FGM
has true cultural value,
1060
01:26:47,411 --> 01:26:49,538
killing one's child has none.
1061
01:26:49,538 --> 01:26:51,290
I will be frank, sir,
1062
01:26:51,290 --> 01:26:55,419
I have here, the interview transcripts.
1063
01:26:56,712 --> 01:27:01,592
P32, file reference 421.
It is 3:52 p.m.
1064
01:27:02,051 --> 01:27:03,928
You ask her a question, I quote,
1065
01:27:03,928 --> 01:27:07,139
"Ms. Coly,
do not be ashamed of your culture,
1066
01:27:07,139 --> 01:27:11,060
"if it might help us
to understand your actions."
1067
01:27:11,060 --> 01:27:15,731
She replies, "I am a Cartesian thinker,
I don't believe in all that."
1068
01:27:27,159 --> 01:27:30,120
Ms. Coly begins to evoke
hallucinatory phenomena
1069
01:27:30,120 --> 01:27:33,999
and says she believes her aunts
may have put a curse on her.
1070
01:27:33,999 --> 01:27:39,421
Do you not think you handed her
an easy defense strategy?
1071
01:27:39,421 --> 01:27:41,340
And possibly even worse,
1072
01:27:41,340 --> 01:27:44,343
that you let her become stuck
with the idea of sorcery?
1073
01:27:44,343 --> 01:27:46,428
I strongly oppose that idea.
1074
01:27:46,428 --> 01:27:49,723
I stuck scrupulously
to the rules of criminal procedure.
1075
01:27:51,642 --> 01:27:55,521
I'd like to read you a few extracts
from a conversation recorded
1076
01:27:55,521 --> 01:28:00,109
at Sequedin prison, between Ms. Coly
and her mother, Mrs. Diatta.
1077
01:28:00,901 --> 01:28:02,194
Ms. Coly says,
1078
01:28:03,028 --> 01:28:06,156
"The investigating judge
is buying into it."
1079
01:28:06,824 --> 01:28:09,034
Mrs. Diatta replies, "What do you mean?"
1080
01:28:09,743 --> 01:28:11,495
Laurence Coly replies,
1081
01:28:12,079 --> 01:28:15,082
"The investigating judge
believes it was sorcery.
1082
01:28:15,499 --> 01:28:18,502
"I'm not your run of the mill
infanticide mother,
1083
01:28:18,502 --> 01:28:20,504
"that bothers them.
1084
01:28:20,504 --> 01:28:22,840
"What's funny is that I killed my child,
1085
01:28:22,840 --> 01:28:25,592
"but not in the way people usually do.
1086
01:28:26,844 --> 01:28:29,013
"Before I get a 30-year sentence,
1087
01:28:29,013 --> 01:28:33,058
"they must know who really killed her."
1088
01:30:39,143 --> 01:30:40,602
Fuck!
1089
01:31:19,600 --> 01:31:21,685
Hello, this is Adrien's phone...
1090
01:31:24,897 --> 01:31:27,024
It's me...
1091
01:34:25,827 --> 01:34:27,120
Ms. Coly,
1092
01:34:27,496 --> 01:34:28,955
stand up.
1093
01:34:35,837 --> 01:34:37,339
Ms. Coly,
1094
01:34:38,799 --> 01:34:42,677
what was your state of mind on that day?
1095
01:34:44,471 --> 01:34:47,307
Why did you decide to take the train
1096
01:34:47,974 --> 01:34:52,396
to travel to Berck-sur-Mer
at that precise moment?
1097
01:34:58,318 --> 01:35:00,404
Why did I take the train then?
1098
01:35:01,863 --> 01:35:04,783
One might be tempted to say,
"She's growing up,
1099
01:35:05,909 --> 01:35:08,912
"it's getting complicated,"
but that's not a reason.
1100
01:35:10,705 --> 01:35:12,249
Why Berck?
1101
01:35:13,083 --> 01:35:14,459
Why the sea?
1102
01:35:15,460 --> 01:35:18,338
Because the tide was high enough
at that time of year.
1103
01:35:19,464 --> 01:35:21,508
The tide was very high that day.
1104
01:35:23,885 --> 01:35:26,847
I had decided to go to Berck
the previous evening.
1105
01:35:29,224 --> 01:35:31,017
I took a train there.
1106
01:35:32,561 --> 01:35:34,521
I boarded a bus.
1107
01:35:35,772 --> 01:35:39,109
I asked a charming lady
which hotel was closest to the sea.
1108
01:35:40,026 --> 01:35:41,653
She told me.
1109
01:35:42,571 --> 01:35:44,239
She was a tourist guide.
1110
01:35:46,616 --> 01:35:48,410
I arrived at the hotel.
1111
01:35:49,536 --> 01:35:51,329
I dropped my things off.
1112
01:35:52,956 --> 01:35:55,041
I think I played with Lili for a while.
1113
01:35:55,750 --> 01:35:57,210
I fed her.
1114
01:35:59,546 --> 01:36:02,424
At around 9 p.m., it was dark enough.
1115
01:36:07,220 --> 01:36:08,930
It was high tide.
1116
01:36:11,224 --> 01:36:13,018
The moon rose before me,
1117
01:36:13,268 --> 01:36:16,188
lighting the path like a spotlight.
1118
01:36:18,064 --> 01:36:21,526
I knew the path from the hotel
led to the beach, so I took it.
1119
01:36:23,945 --> 01:36:26,448
It was pitch black
when I got to the beach.
1120
01:36:29,159 --> 01:36:30,494
I rocked her.
1121
01:36:31,286 --> 01:36:32,787
I breastfed her.
1122
01:36:34,539 --> 01:36:35,832
Lili was content.
1123
01:36:37,292 --> 01:36:39,044
She fell asleep in my arms.
1124
01:36:40,837 --> 01:36:42,672
So I laid her on the beach.
1125
01:36:44,090 --> 01:36:45,300
And...
1126
01:36:46,343 --> 01:36:48,595
as she didn't react or make a noise,
1127
01:36:49,554 --> 01:36:50,805
I left.
1128
01:36:54,726 --> 01:36:57,187
I imagined the sea
would carry her body away.
1129
01:37:00,357 --> 01:37:02,234
I went back to the hotel.
1130
01:37:04,569 --> 01:37:06,988
That night, I slept like a log.
1131
01:37:07,822 --> 01:37:09,366
I barely dreamt.
1132
01:37:12,410 --> 01:37:13,954
Ms. Coly,
1133
01:37:15,956 --> 01:37:18,875
when you went down to the beach
that night,
1134
01:37:21,169 --> 01:37:24,422
were you absolutely sure
that the tide was rising?
1135
01:37:25,090 --> 01:37:26,341
Yes.
1136
01:37:27,759 --> 01:37:29,511
I saw the sea coming.
1137
01:37:31,346 --> 01:37:34,891
When you were first
questioned by the police, you said
1138
01:37:34,891 --> 01:37:39,020
that you entered the water,
that the water came up to your knees.
1139
01:37:40,564 --> 01:37:41,565
Later on,
1140
01:37:42,357 --> 01:37:45,819
you said you couldn't remember
going into the water.
1141
01:37:48,488 --> 01:37:49,823
That's true.
1142
01:37:51,199 --> 01:37:52,742
I don't remember.
1143
01:37:58,373 --> 01:38:00,083
Prosecuting Attorney.
1144
01:38:04,129 --> 01:38:05,755
Ma'am,
1145
01:38:05,755 --> 01:38:09,134
your amnesia is very convenient.
1146
01:38:10,176 --> 01:38:13,096
The water up to your knees,
that you say you forgot,
1147
01:38:13,096 --> 01:38:18,059
sheds a much harsher light
on the story you have just told.
1148
01:38:18,810 --> 01:38:22,606
Ms. Coly, you are not
on the stage of some theatre,
1149
01:38:22,606 --> 01:38:25,108
you are in a court of law.
1150
01:38:25,108 --> 01:38:28,278
The moon that lights your path
like a spotlight,
1151
01:38:28,278 --> 01:38:31,114
the sea that will carry away her body...
1152
01:38:32,282 --> 01:38:33,700
The truth is
1153
01:38:33,700 --> 01:38:36,286
if the sea had carried away her body,
1154
01:38:36,703 --> 01:38:38,705
nobody would have known
1155
01:38:38,705 --> 01:38:42,959
that a little girl, called Elise,
had disappeared,
1156
01:38:42,959 --> 01:38:46,379
because nobody knew that Elise existed.
1157
01:38:46,379 --> 01:38:49,841
Everything had been set up
so nobody would know she had died.
1158
01:38:49,841 --> 01:38:54,262
You condemned her to anonymity
from the moment she was born.
1159
01:38:54,262 --> 01:38:57,015
Nobody saw you pregnant.
1160
01:38:57,015 --> 01:38:58,642
You never took her out.
1161
01:38:58,642 --> 01:39:02,562
Lili's existence was a total secret
from beginning to end.
1162
01:39:13,531 --> 01:39:18,078
You have one new message,
received today at 1:19 p.m.
1163
01:39:57,826 --> 01:39:59,786
I didn't see the child.
1164
01:40:01,830 --> 01:40:03,373
What child?
1165
01:40:06,000 --> 01:40:07,919
The child, Lili...
1166
01:40:14,926 --> 01:40:16,553
I didn't see her.
1167
01:40:21,182 --> 01:40:23,518
I didn't even think about her.
1168
01:40:24,894 --> 01:40:27,605
I was obsessed with her, with Laurence.
1169
01:40:28,898 --> 01:40:30,900
You can't stay here.
1170
01:40:32,110 --> 01:40:33,695
Rama, listen...
1171
01:40:34,863 --> 01:40:37,866
this case has nothing to do with you,
1172
01:40:38,658 --> 01:40:40,243
or with us.
1173
01:41:02,557 --> 01:41:04,642
I'm scared I'll be like her.
1174
01:41:05,185 --> 01:41:06,728
Like who?
1175
01:41:11,900 --> 01:41:13,443
Like my mother.
1176
01:41:22,702 --> 01:41:25,246
Your mother is a broken woman.
1177
01:41:28,166 --> 01:41:30,335
She is scarred by her own life.
1178
01:41:31,586 --> 01:41:33,129
That's not you.
1179
01:41:34,047 --> 01:41:35,715
That's not your life.
1180
01:45:02,964 --> 01:45:06,426
Members of the jury, this is the story
1181
01:45:06,426 --> 01:45:08,511
of a phantom woman.
1182
01:45:09,387 --> 01:45:11,305
A woman whom nobody sees.
1183
01:45:11,973 --> 01:45:13,433
Whom nobody knows.
1184
01:45:15,435 --> 01:45:19,355
It's the story of a slow disappearance.
1185
01:45:19,355 --> 01:45:23,609
A tragic descent into hell,
into which a mother led her child.
1186
01:45:25,194 --> 01:45:27,613
This woman committed the worst crime.
1187
01:45:27,613 --> 01:45:29,407
Infanticide.
1188
01:45:30,324 --> 01:45:33,453
She killed her daughter
and she admits it.
1189
01:45:34,954 --> 01:45:38,499
It is unbearable for us,
beyond comprehension.
1190
01:45:39,208 --> 01:45:43,379
A mother who allows herself to kill
the child she's cherished for 15 months.
1191
01:45:45,048 --> 01:45:47,341
It is easier to see her as a monster.
1192
01:45:47,842 --> 01:45:50,470
A monster must be overcome.
1193
01:45:51,387 --> 01:45:55,099
So you open the volumes of Penal Law
and you find her guilty.
1194
01:45:56,517 --> 01:45:58,978
But if you do that, members of the jury,
1195
01:45:59,937 --> 01:46:02,148
you will have handed down a judgement,
1196
01:46:02,398 --> 01:46:04,859
but you won't have delivered justice.
1197
01:46:05,902 --> 01:46:08,821
You will have answered
only the easiest question.
1198
01:46:09,447 --> 01:46:13,993
Not the one that, as jury members,
you should be asking yourselves.
1199
01:46:15,369 --> 01:46:17,997
If you can't ask yourself this question,
1200
01:46:18,456 --> 01:46:20,291
you will stay on the beach,
1201
01:46:20,625 --> 01:46:22,960
staggered by the horror of the crime.
1202
01:46:24,670 --> 01:46:25,838
Why?
1203
01:46:27,423 --> 01:46:30,718
What made Laurence Coly
kill her daughter
1204
01:46:30,718 --> 01:46:33,513
whom she had loved
and taken care of so well?
1205
01:46:34,472 --> 01:46:36,808
Why didn't she kill her at birth?
1206
01:46:38,309 --> 01:46:41,521
Why did Elise die?
1207
01:46:43,481 --> 01:46:45,066
Elise died
1208
01:46:45,691 --> 01:46:47,443
because her mother is mad.
1209
01:46:48,444 --> 01:46:51,864
And in her madness,
she believed she was protecting her.
1210
01:46:54,784 --> 01:46:58,454
Consider the two extremes of her journey,
if you may.
1211
01:46:59,205 --> 01:47:01,249
Consider this young lady,
1212
01:47:01,249 --> 01:47:04,460
full of ambitions and desires,
arriving in Paris,
1213
01:47:04,961 --> 01:47:06,587
and ask yourself this question,
1214
01:47:07,547 --> 01:47:10,591
how did she become that isolated,
1215
01:47:10,591 --> 01:47:14,428
invisible woman,
hiding in her partner's studio?
1216
01:47:16,180 --> 01:47:18,474
When she moved in with Luc Dumontet,
1217
01:47:19,183 --> 01:47:21,477
Laurence Coly had no financial resources,
1218
01:47:21,853 --> 01:47:24,939
she no longer had a bank account
nor social security cover.
1219
01:47:25,231 --> 01:47:27,441
She wasn't enrolled at the university.
1220
01:47:28,484 --> 01:47:30,611
She started to hear voices.
1221
01:47:31,362 --> 01:47:34,657
She experienced hallucinations,
terrifying dreams,
1222
01:47:34,657 --> 01:47:37,743
strange signs
that she struggled to decipher.
1223
01:47:39,412 --> 01:47:41,831
Other than a few phone calls
with her mother,
1224
01:47:41,831 --> 01:47:44,375
she had no more contact
with the outside world.
1225
01:47:45,585 --> 01:47:48,963
Her loneliness was so palpable
1226
01:47:49,714 --> 01:47:51,382
that she could almost touch it.
1227
01:47:53,301 --> 01:47:56,387
That was when she found out
that she was pregnant
1228
01:47:56,387 --> 01:47:58,681
and would give birth to her daughter.
1229
01:48:01,058 --> 01:48:05,897
In actual fact, Laurence Coly
didn't hide her pregnancy or the birth,
1230
01:48:06,731 --> 01:48:08,482
she hid herself.
1231
01:48:09,233 --> 01:48:11,068
She couldn't allow herself to be seen,
1232
01:48:11,569 --> 01:48:12,904
she was too afraid.
1233
01:48:15,448 --> 01:48:17,491
So, sorcery...
1234
01:48:18,910 --> 01:48:22,205
Sorcery...
a young attorney, even a rookie,
1235
01:48:22,205 --> 01:48:25,875
would destroy a defense strategy
based on sorcery.
1236
01:48:27,084 --> 01:48:29,921
If I mention it now,
it is only to remind you
1237
01:48:29,921 --> 01:48:32,882
of the conclusions
of the psychiatric evaluation.
1238
01:48:33,841 --> 01:48:38,596
Sorcery is just the manifestation
of Laurence Coly's hallucinations.
1239
01:48:39,639 --> 01:48:41,849
This woman needs medical care
1240
01:48:41,849 --> 01:48:44,101
and in prison, she won't receive it.
1241
01:48:44,852 --> 01:48:47,104
Condemning her to a lengthy sentence
1242
01:48:47,104 --> 01:48:49,982
is, strictly speaking,
condemning her to madness.
1243
01:48:54,445 --> 01:48:58,866
Ladies and gentlemen of the jury,
I will conclude by mentioning something
1244
01:48:58,866 --> 01:49:01,077
that I found deeply touching.
1245
01:49:02,662 --> 01:49:05,665
Laurence Coly learned how to be a mother
on the internet.
1246
01:49:06,582 --> 01:49:08,960
She tried to do the right thing,
1247
01:49:09,418 --> 01:49:11,003
she tried to fight,
1248
01:49:11,629 --> 01:49:12,964
to keep going,
1249
01:49:13,381 --> 01:49:15,049
but she lost.
1250
01:49:16,008 --> 01:49:17,927
There was nobody to help her.
1251
01:49:18,552 --> 01:49:20,388
Nobody could understand.
1252
01:49:21,264 --> 01:49:24,016
And we still don't understand
Laurence Coly.
1253
01:49:25,518 --> 01:49:29,397
Some would have you believe
she's a liar, arrogant,
1254
01:49:29,814 --> 01:49:33,025
a manipulator, in short, a monster.
1255
01:49:34,110 --> 01:49:35,653
But this very morning,
1256
01:49:36,362 --> 01:49:38,322
Laurence told me about a dream,
1257
01:49:38,322 --> 01:49:40,908
in which Elise was with her in prison.
1258
01:49:41,909 --> 01:49:44,161
When I opened the door of her cell,
1259
01:49:44,829 --> 01:49:47,873
Elise ran to hide
under my attorney's gown.
1260
01:49:49,458 --> 01:49:52,586
Laurence knows that her daughter
will always be with her,
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she is inside her.
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What I'm telling you is not poetry,
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it is science.
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We know that during pregnancy,
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the mother's cells and DNA
migrate to the fetus.
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It is less known
that the exchange works both ways.
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The child's cells also migrate
towards the mother's organs.
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They lodge themselves in her body,
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from her brain to her toes.
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Even after birth,
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even if the pregnancy
is not carried to term,
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those cells live on,
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sometimes throughout a woman's life.
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A mother and her child
are thus intertwined
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with one another,
in an inextricable manner.
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It's inevitable, it's biology.
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Do you know what scientists
call these cells?
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Chimeric cells.
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Like the Chimera, the mythical monster.
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A hybrid creature
composed of different animal parts.
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A lion's head, a goat's body,
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a snake's tail.
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So,
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members of the jury,
I have come to believe that
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we women,
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we are all chimeras.
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We carry within us,
the traces of our mothers
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and of our daughters,
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who in turn, will carry ours.
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It is a never-ending chain.
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In a way, us women, we are all monsters.
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But we are terribly human monsters.
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Thank you.
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Sorry.
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So tired.
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Katie Henfrey
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