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Prelude in C minor BWV 999

♪ Radio information

♪...

Ringtone

Ladies and gentlemen, the Court.

- The criminal hearing is open. Please sit down.

Inaudible chats

- No, Ryan!

She screams. - It's my blanket!

- Ouch!

A table !

Brouhaha

We knock.

- Good morning. Is your father there? - Oui.

Papa ?

- Nicolas Owned? - Oui ?

- You are being arrested for intentional homicide of your wife.

- Voluntary homicide? - Follow us.

- What did I do?

Oh !

I can't leave my children.

- Papa !

- Last week, a kid died over shit.

I'm afraid for my son, Master.

He's going to ruin his life with his associates.

Talk to him. I only have him. He will listen to you.

- I'll try.

- And for my VAT problem? - I'm the deal.

- Here.

- Non, I will send you my fees.

Come on, goodbye. - Merci.

♪ Study N.3

- It's crazy that you still have this painting.

- It's a gift.

- I know. I gave it to you.

♪...

- For our first year wedding.

- Oui.

- You bought it from your friends who had this gallery.

- No. No, I bought it at...

Aix.

- No, you bought it here.

- Non. - Yes.

Phone

Ah... - Is that you?

- No, it's you.

♪...

Oui ?

♪...

Nothing that can't wait until tomorrow?

♪...

OK.

I'll remind you.

The police for an official commission.

She sighs.

Obviously I'm the only one to respond at this time.

- Are you going to go? - I don't really have a choice.

Sigh

♪...

But tonight, I would have settled down.

Do you want to do me this favor?

- Oh no. - Just for tonight.

- Non. - You can do

custody. I'll get the case tomorrow.

Come on... Come on, Jean.

He laughs.

- Ouch, ouch, ouch.

Because it's you.

♪...

- Don't go home.

Sleep here, it's ridiculous.

- No, I prefer.

I prefer my bed.

Sizzle

- Merci.

- Maître. - Good evening.

- It's 12:30 a.m. You have 30 minutes.

- Can you unshackle sir? - Of course.

- I am Master Monier, court-appointed lawyer.

- I don't know why we're seeing each other.

- You don't know why are you here?

- I am accused of having killed my wife.

- No one is accusing you. You are in police custody.

There is a doubt, a suspicion.

The police need information for the investigation.

- Why don't I go out?

- The facts are serious. They can keep you for 48 hours.

We'll leave it there.

Tell me in detail what happened last night.

- I already explained.

- There, it's mine that needs to be explained.

- I have nothing to do here. I should be with my children.

He sighs.

- Mr. Milik, so that I can help you, you need to talk to me a little.

- Last night, with my wife, we argued.

- For what reason?

- She had drunk again one shot too many.

I told him that I was worried about her.

That's all.

She lost her temper and said to me: “I do what I want.”

- And then?

- She yelled at me to get out of the house.

I said it was my place too.

She wanted to slap me.

I dodged, but...

She still scratched me pretty good.

- Was she violent with you? - No.

Well, only when she drinks too much.

As soon as I talk to him about alcohol, It pisses her off.

She's hard-headed.

- Were you violent with her?

- I never laid a hand on her.

She is the mother of my children.

And we're not the same size.

- After she tried to slap you, what did you do?

- I told him that I wouldn't move from here.

And that...

I said words that...

You know how it is, arguments.

- What exactly did you say?

- She should shut her mouth.

She left, I begged her to stay.

But nothing to do.

I don't like when she languishes on her bench.

- Which bench?

- When she is drunk,

she goes to the bench from the village square.

Two minutes from our house.

- And then she went there?

- Yes, finally, I think so. I...

It hurts me to see her get damaged like that.

I don't recognize her anymore.

It's not good for children.

Since she started drinking, she doesn't care about it anymore.

Impossible to reason with her.

- Yes, I understand.

After his departure, what did you do?

- I checked that we didn't have woke up the little ones.

They were sleeping. I went to Roger's house.

- Roger's?

- My friend Roger's bar.

Five minutes walk.

- What time was it?

- Around 11 p.m.

- Did you drink there? - A glass of milk.

- No alcohol? - I don't drink, I never liked it.

- Were there other people?

- Roger, his wife, but she went to bed.

Roland,

Rachid and Karim.

We don't talk too much.

- What time did you come home?

- Around 12:30 a.m., 1 a.m.

Approximately.

We spoke with Roger and I went home.

- Your wife didn't come home. Didn't that worry you?

- It happens to him to fall asleep on his bench.

-Outside, like this, on the bench in winter?

- It happens.

- When the police came, she still hadn't come back.

Didn't that worry you either?

- His sister Audrey often comes to pick her up.

And in general, she returns the next evening.

- Does her sister live far away?

- At Pontet. Next to Avignon.

- Your wife had been in trouble with the locals?

- Oh, no.

- Someone with whom Would she have argued?

- No, I don't see.

- If you have nothing to do with it,

someone must have a reason.

Think a little. Please help me.

- I swear, I don't know.

I don't know, I swear. I...

I want my children back, my wife.

I'm going crazy here.

Sobbing

Mysterious music

Mysterious music

- Gentlemen. - Good morning.

Hello, Jean.

Mr. Salah?

Porte - Excuse me.

Oh !

Didn't you sleep? - Non.

Did you read the article?

- Don't you want to go home and rest? - Non.

Did you read the article?

- Yes yes.

It's horrible.

What did you think of this guy?

- No record or history.

This is neither a credible culprit

nor an obvious innocent.

- What state was he in?

- Nervous, lost.

Worried about his children more than for him.

He doesn't understand, he is in denial.

He talks about his wife in the present tense.

I'm curious to see the...

the file.

- Do you want to defend him?

- Yes.

- You didn't plead

at the Assizes since the Portal affair. What does it do...

15 years?

- How I can defend you if you don't tell me everything?

- What are you talking about? - I saw the investigation file.

Roger's words, the evening of the crime.

This is the first thing that needed to be said.

I can't find these things five minutes before seeing the judge.

- Roger, what are you doing here?

I didn't say anything against you.

Roger!

Roger!

- Mr. Milik,

the evening preceding the facts,

you went to the cafe by Mr. Roger Marton.

How did he react seeing you arrive?

I wasn't well.

- Please speak into the microphone, Mr Milik.

He understood that it was because of Cécile. We were arguing.

- Tell us about the events that followed from there.

- I sat at the bar.

I recounted my argument.

- It's the last one, we're closing.

All right ? THANKS.

- She's sick.

If she doesn't stop drinking, give him the DDASS.

You will be very peaceful.

- I can't do that.

- Too good, too stupid.

Don't be surprised she crushes you. - She's not crushing me.

She has character. -Roger,

stop meddling.

- We're talking. - Leave him.

I'm going to bed.

- See you later.

- Without the kids, I would have screwed myself up.

- Is it okay to say that?

- Ah, I knew! - Oh !

We don't get along anymore!

- Normal, we only hear you. - This is my place.

It's not a sinecure, your Cécile.

You are better.

- A sinecure?

- A case. She's drunk.

- It's not his fault. - It's not his fault?

Whose fault is it?

If tomorrow she takes you away

Your kids, isn't it his fault?

if you're not here anymore?

- I don't know. - You said it.

You'll screw yourself up.

You let yourself be killed, walk on the face.

You're like a kid, you look at her.

You're not a man.

Do you want my photo?

I will tell you, in your place,

- What what? - I understand myself.

Brouhaha

Okay, we're closing.

- Mr. Milik, during your three years in pre-trial detention,

you have designated Mr. Roger Marton

like your friend.

Can we say that you admired him?

- He was my only friend.

He sobs.

- M. Owned?

- Yes, yes, sorry.

Excuse me.

- If he was your only friend, his opinion mattered.

Isn't it?

You didn't want to disappoint him.

- Yeah, don't disappoint him.

- When Roger suggested you to kill your wife,

He wasn't going overboard?

- I didn't take it seriously.

When he was drunk, he wanted to kill everyone.

He barked, but he didn't bite.

- When he said

Didn't that offend you?

You didn't want prove the opposite?

- My client is not a child.

He wouldn't kill his wife for get his friend's approval.

- Master, you will have time to express yourself.

Continue. - Excuse me.

you have consulted a lawyer for a divorce?

- To inform me.

- What are the reasons of the approach?

- Cécile drank too much.

It was getting dangerous for Emma and Maël.

They were very small.

- You had

to get rid of her.

Legally, I mean.

- No, I didn't do anything.

I didn't want to move away my children from her.

- You saw the lawyer twice.

- You can love someone and divorce him.

- You can love someone and kill him.

That will be all, thank you.

- Master, for the defense.

- M. Milik, when you inquired

on the divorce procedure,

what did this colleague tell you about the care of your children?

- What if we went before a judge,

there is a good chance that I have custody.

- Because of his alcoholism, I presume.

You don't drink.

And yet,

if you had divorced and obtained custody,

your wife would have kept the house where you lived, right?

- The house belongs to Cécile. Inherited from her father.

- Who bequeathed him the usufruct.

He also bequeathed bare ownership to your sister-in-law,

Audrey Girard, which currently occupies it.

In other words,

even if you hadn't been indicted for this murder,

your sister-in-law

would have inherited his house

Do we agree? - Yes, there you go.

- You knew than murder your wife

would not have made you inherit of his house.

Back to the interview that you had with the...

the colleague

regarding the divorce procedure.

If you had started it, what

No, I...

Compared to allocations family that you touched

to raise your children.

- I would have had them.

Like with the guard.

- Would these amounts have you allowed to find a roof

and provide for their needs? - Oui.

- We can say that a divorce

been easy and in your favor?

- Hm.

- Furthermore, your wife

she had subscribed life insurance?

- No.

- Did she have any savings?

- She had nothing, except

his half of the house.

- Half that went to his sister

and to your children in case death of your sister-in-law.

To recap,

the death of your wife

would not have reported to you only sorrow.

Thank you, Mr. Milik.

Prelude and Fugue N.2 in C minor

- for her children, for Elodie,

for Jade, for Ryan,

for Maël and Emma. May they receive this...

strength and this consolation.

Hail Mary,

the Lord is with you,

you are blessed among all women

and Jesus, the fruit of your womb,

is blessed.

Holy Mary, mother of God,

pray for us...

- Stop, leave me.

Please don't touch me.

Who do you think you are?

- We're going home, children.

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Disturbing music

Doorbell

♪- Oui ? - It's for the lawyer's meeting.

Rattling

If you refuse to see the reconstruction,

it will work against you.

- What difference does it make, anyway?

- Think about your children.

- If I can't see them...

- We request a visit again. I saw social services.

- Do you have children?

- Oui.

I have some points to clarify.

Like this mud story

on your shoes and your pants.

L'expertise dit that we found the same

on clothes by Roger and Cécile.

How to explain it?

- I don't know.

And I won't go to the reenactment because I didn't do anything.

What day is it?

- It's Saturday.

- When the weather was good, we went at the Etang des Aulnes with Ryan.

Roger lent me his equipment.

I was going to give him his first cane fishing with a nice reel.

Within two years. He's still a little young.

- If you help me, within two years, you will be outside.

♪Pavane Op 50

♪...

Barking

- What is this for?

- I am Mr. Monier. Your brother-in-law's lawyer.

I have to get some of his stuff.

- He won't get anything.

Barking

- Ms. Girard, if you have things to say,

I listen to you willingly.

He doesn't necessarily tell me everything.

- Malo, leave. Come on, get out.

Cleared.

You saw how pretty she was?

She wasn't always the rag she has become.

She was flirtatious when she worked at town hall.

She loved to laugh and...

dance.

Before she met this bad guy.

Because...

you defend him, you,

but he's a bad guy.

I'm not saying he doesn't have it made happy for a time,

but these children what he did to her...

He ate his life.

When our father died, it was a shock.

It's as if she had no one left to protect her.

Little by little, she drank more and more.

I was ashamed

and it hurts to get her back on this bench, in this state.

She told me nothing about her life.

I told him:

“Stay at my place.”

She loved her children. Even if she didn't handle it well.

A window opens.

Thunder rumbles.

- Give him the photos of his family.

It will hurt him how it hurts me.

Now get out of here.

- You don't like what I represent.

- I don't care.

If he survives, the memory of my sister will keep you from sleeping.

Pounding

- The victim would have died around 2 a.m.,

the night of Wednesday 19 to Thursday February 20, 2017,

more or less thirty minutes.

These photos were taken approximately seven hours after the crime.

in the blood?

- Yes. According to examination and according to the dating,

she had 4.1 grams of alcohol per liter of blood.

Only one wound is to be noted on the neck.

The cut was caused by a sharp object

with serrated blade,

survival knife type.

of a section of the right carotid artery.

The blade pierced the neck its right posterior face, at A.

She continued on her way towards the left posterior face,

severing the carotid artery, in B.

According to the wound examination,

unique and fatal, was carried with strength,

and from the back.

- Madam President, a question, please.

- Go for it.

- Mr. expert, the blow was successful from right to left

and from behind.

Could you reproduce

- M. l'expert will abstain. He is not a mime.

- If you allow me, I will.

I feed Marceau for the mime deep admiration.

Laughter - Go for it.

- Thank you.

Mr. Expert, can you,

describe as I proceed?

- Go for it. - Um, well, then...

The assassin was behind the victim,

he held her still with one hand.

- With one hand...

Like this? - Oui.

He stuck the blade of the knife in his throat, with the other hand.

- Like this?

Thank you.

If the blow was from right to left,

we can say that it is the work of a left-hander?

- It's likely.

- Thank you.

for your service.

A path opens to you for a reconversion.

Laughter

Mr. Expert, continue.

He clears his throat.

- The horizontal shape of the wound and the blood

on the victim's lap

- Are there any other lesions?

- No, no lesions.

Neither defense nor hanging around.

- Madam President,

I have a question. - Go for it.

- In the absence of such traces,

the victim was able to be dropped off on the premises

who was familiar to him?

- It's a possibility, yes.

- That will be all, thank you.

- Mme Marton,

the evening before the facts, did you hear the accused

utter the wish to end things with his wife?

- Not that I know of.

It's the last one, we're closing.

- And your husband?

- She's sick.

If she doesn't stop drinking, put the DDASS on him.

You will be very peaceful.

- I can't do that.

- He gave advice to Nicholas.

Nothing alarming. - Don't be surprised that she crushes you.

- She doesn't crush me, she has character.

- Roger, stop meddling.

- We're talking. - Leave him alone.

I went up to bed.

Soft music

right away.

- No, I took off my makeup.

And then,

I went to bed with a book.

I heard

the metal curtain, it was 1am.

Squeak

- Laure...

- Oui ?

- Laure...

- Take a Doliprane in the bathroom.

Inaudible words

- What did he answer you?

- He said:

"I fucking did it, I did it.”

Brouhaha

- Silence.

Quiet, thank you.

- Mrs. Marton, your husband he told you

what had he done?

- No, he didn't say anything else.

He fell asleep 30 seconds later.

- And the next day?

- Non.

He stayed in bed in the morning.

He told me he didn't want to open it, how sick he was.

I said, “Okay.”

- According to you, what did he do between 1 a.m.,

time at which Nicolas Milik would have left the bar,

and 3:15 a.m., at which time he joined you

in the room?

- I don't know.

I never knew.

- Less than 24 hours

after the fact,

the police your husband called out.

Can you tell us what did they discover?

- He has a gun. Which doesn't work.

And he also

a war knife.

- Who looks like what?

- The one on the handle that has...

holes to put your fingers in.

- A brass knuckle? - Yes, there you go.

It's quite big.

- I have it. It was in the bar, under the sink.

- I ask you again,

What did your husband say to the police? at his first audition?

- That he hadn't done anything special.

- Nothing else?

I will remind you.

He said that between

and his arrival in your room,

he had tidied up the bar.

- For two hours?

- Maybe I watched TV.

- You didn't take your vehicle?

- I was completely drunk.

If I had taken my car, I would have smashed her.

- You own

a survival knife?

- Affirmative.

- Do you know where he is?

- In the garage.

- Why was he found? under the sink in the bar?

Sigh

- At some point, I think I took it.

- Ah good ?

- Ask my wife.

Drunk, I lock myself in my workshop.

I put on my uniform.

There are evenings, I put on my beret, It makes customers laugh.

- All right.

You took your knife and you went into the bar.

- If you found it in the bar, yes.

- Did you clean it?

- No.

- We found him wet with traces of dishwashing liquid.

- It's because I washed it. What do you want me to say?

- So. You will understand my doubts

regarding your husband's hearing.

Soft music

Madam President, can you ask

- Mr. Bailiff?

- Do you recognize this knife, Mme Marton ?

- It's my husband's.

- He presents the same characteristics

than the one who served in the crime.

Serrated blade, similar length.

Moreover,

the analysis report reveals Roger Marton's DNA

on the handle and also a tiny...

flesh particle between the handle and the blade.

Unfortunately,

too small to detect the date

and provenance.

I have one last question, Mrs. Marton.

In which hand did your husband write?

- LEFT.

- I will conclude by specifying that my client is right-handed.

THANKS.

- Excuse me, Master.

Your insinuation is of pure interpretation.

I see there evidence against the accused.

In the hypothesis where Mr. Milik allegedly killed his wife,

he could have requested his right-handed strength

to immobilize it

and the blow would have been struck by his left hand.

- Given the depth of the wound,

he couldn't have stuck the blade with his weak arm.

- Master, we do not judge here of a contest of strength.

Laughter

Intriguing music

- What are you drawing, Emma?

- Dad's prison.

With us ahead, if one day we can see him again.

- Yeah, that's good.

Jade?

Didn't you draw anything for dad?

Jade?

- We knock. - Children, it's recess.

- No, no, stay.

Sit down.

Jade isn't getting any better, is she?

- No, she still doesn't speak.

But she played with children, last week.

What did they say for release?

- The request was again rejected.

Your daddy asked me to tell you

that he loved you very much and found you...

very courageous, that he missed you very much.

- You think that we will manage to see it?

- Visits are complicated.

You thought what I asked you?

To come and testify?

- No, I don't want to.

- For what ? It would be useful for your father to testify.

- I'm ashamed.

- On the mud, we find the same pollution components

But no trace of pollution in the mud at the Van Gogh Bridge,

at the first expertise.

In fact, on this point, you are totally discharged.

- Thank you, Master.

- You will have to enlighten me about nature

and Roger

- Still with Roger?

- If I can't prove that he was familiar to Cécile,

we will remember that she let herself be carried away

as an argument against you.

- It doesn't mean anything.

She had been drinking. Anyone could take it.

- Yes, but...

we have no other suspects.

Understand, it's not against him, but for you.

Your wife

- It's already happened.

- How was he with her?

- Well, okay.

- She knew that he was your best friend?

- Hm.

- Well there you go. We are moving forward.

So say...

Here, from Elodie.

- It was quite a wedding.

Cécile's father was still alive.

He really liked me.

He had yelled at himself

with Audrey who didn't want to come.

- She didn't want to come?

- It was too fast.

- Did you get married quickly? - Two months after our meeting.

- You met how?

- It was July 14th.

She had a... something soft in the eyes.

I couldn't stop looking at her.

At one point, she saw me.

She asked me What was my problem?

I said, “Nothing.”

And that I found her pretty.

And then I asked her to dance.

- She accepted? - Yes.

I couldn't believe it.

We went to dinner.

We had talked a lot.

It did me good.

She also lost her mother when she was a kid.

I walked her home.

When getting out of the car,

I tried to kiss him.

And as she allowed herself to be done...

I told myself that I would be maybe never alone again.

- Me Monier

explained to you? - Yes.

Jean informed me in detail.

- They beat him because he let them go.

He wants to touch more

I'm afraid for my son.

He's a young bullfighter who has talent.

He's going to ruin his life.

You have to help me reason with him.

He wants to withdraw his complaint.

- Jean ?

What do you have?

Jean ?

Hey, hey...

- Oh, it's nothing.

I had a...

a little heat stroke. Like you will.

- How are you? - Yes. It's better. It's nothing.

- Should I call a doctor? - No, no, it's nothing.

- You scared me earlier.

You were white as a sheet.

Why are you smiling? - Expression.

White as a sheet. My mother said that.

- I'm not your mother.

But I tell you that you should take care of yourself.

You work too much.

You get exhausted.

I didn't see you like that from Portal.

- Nothing to see. There's no proof.

The whole file is bogus.

- So for you, he is innocent?

- That's not the point.

I'm just talking about my defense. I want to believe in my arguments.

- But you can admit are you wrong?

- But I can admit that I am wrong, yes.

Soft music

- I have excellent news.

Ms. Diallo from social services contacted me.

Elodie agrees to testify.

If his father agrees,

she will be a witness. - Awesome.

- Master Monier?

I learned some great things.

Portal, does that mean anything to you?

- Madam, please.

- The great lawyer who obtained a pardon Portal the old man killer.

- Madam, that’s enough.

- What did he do, Portal?

immediately released?

He killed again and again.

- Come on, it's okay.

- Go ahead, asshole!

Go do your dirty work!

- Your daughter Elodie must come and testify.

- Testify to what?

- That she needs you.

She has the responsibility of his four brothers and sisters.

- I don't want to.

- You don't understand.

If I write a request, the president won't be able to say no.

- She shouldn't see that.

- She's big.

- I don't want her to see me here.

After three years,

I don't want to. Ringtone

- I don't want to. -

- You confirm. No trace of DNA, nor of Nicolas Milik

nor Cécile Milik

from Mr. Marton?

- Exact. - And on the body?

- The autopsy revealed the presence

of Nicolas Milik's DNA only.

- It's normal, as the victim's husband.

- You are right.

But one detail alters this feeling of normalcy.

Mr. Constable, What does the autopsy report reveal?

as for the victim's nails?

- Under the fingernails of the middle finger and the right ring finger,

forensic medicine noted a micro crust of blood

belonging to Mr. Milik.

- As stated in the minutes hearing of my client,

shortly before the tragedy, they argued

and Ms. Milik tried to slap my client.

She scratched him on the neck.

- Stop interrupting Madam Advocate General.

his interrogation.

- Thank you, Madam President.

It's not that point which interests me.

Mr. Constable, continue.

- We found under the nail of his right index finger

a tiny residue of blue thread.

- You are probably talking about this the bright blue suit

what was Mr. Milik wearing according to witnesses

the evening before the incident.

- And which we found in a ball at the foot of the bed

during the search from his home.

- My next question is for the accused.

Mr. Milik, you weren't wearing a jacket

during this argument

How could we find that thread residue under his nail?

- I don't know.

- If you were not wearing your jacket,

as you reported in the hearing minutes,

how did this thread end up? under the nail after a slap,

in the same way

than your blood?

Your wife couldn't tear away

It seems impossible that she stoops

to punch you in the face.

- I don't know anymore. Maybe I was wearing my jacket.

- Oh no.

Mr. Constable, remind us the exact words of the accused

during his hearing about her outfit

pendant son altercation with his wife.

- He said he was wearing his shirt in his blue suit pants.

Not his jacket.

- Not his jacket. On the other hand,

which is more likely,

it's that she struggled understanding your intention

near the Van Gogh Bridge.

She would have attacked you.

That would explain the presence of the blue wire

- and your blood. - I could have too

wrong me at the time about what I wore, to my audition.

- Even if you wore it,

you say that the argument took place around 10 p.m.

Is it possible

just a residue of thread

stays under a nail too long time without dislodging?

If the victim was killed around 2 a.m.,

It's still been four hours.

- Master, for the defense.

- I will answer first to the attorney general.

My client has absolutely no no reason

to remember of what he was wearing that night.

- He remembered it the next day.

- Today, 3 years apart,

it was one evening like any other evening.

He has no reason

to remember what exactly he was wearing.

It's like I asked him

what he wore on December 22, 2016, for example.

- That's it, I remember that.

It was the Christmas party at school.

I had my gray pinstriped suit.

My favorite.

Laughter

- Master,

it would be more judicious to rely on the police.

- Annie?

Are you pleading today?

- Yes.

And I just lost.

Your little bullfighter took 3 years for drug trafficking.

- Nicolas's daughter

must come and testify.

- Did you hear what I told you?

- Yes, yes, the little bullfighter.

I'll go talk to his father.

- I don't think it's its priority.

- Oh, Annie...

Do you have time for a coffee?

- Yes. I do. But not you.

Kiss

Rattling

- Mr. Milik?

Hello Sir. Place the dough.

I announce the death by Mr. Marton.

He was found dead in his cell.

I'm sorry, sir.

- He coughed up blood all night.

No one came to help him.

They let him die like a dog.

- Nicholas, it's painful for you,

but it will help us.

- No, Master.

It's not possible.

- I'll make you the list what is against him?

Why are you blocking? - He's my friend.

- Last month, at the judge's, he said he didn't see you

go home.

He said the witnesses saw

your car to the Van Gogh Bridge.

- He was protecting himself.

- Stop with your stupid loyalty.

Let me defend you.

- But Laura... - But what? What, Laura?

You prefer a shame for her or life in prison?

- It's okay, Master, go ahead.

- I learned the disappearance of your client.

Accept my regrets. - It's his widow's

that must be presented your condolences.

I assume it's not the compassion that brings you.

- You assume well, my dear colleague.

- Let's spare ourselves the politeness.

- Alright. I sincerely think

that my client is innocent.

- For what ?

- Beyond the file, it is the death of Mr. Marton.

Before that,

I thought he dreaded it, protected him.

But even after his death, he continues to devote himself to her

unfailing loyalty.

He believes him to be innocent.

- You say that my client would have been the culprit?

- That's why I'm here.

It's delicate,

but in secret

of your conversations,

Did he not confess to you?

If so,

we would request with the presidents

the lifting of professional secrecy so that you can

attend as a witness... - Leave my office.

Get out or I'll have you disbarred.

Get out.

Out !

Squeak

Out!

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Door

get information from him?

- Roger Marton died yesterday.

- I know.

He told me everything and said that he would have denounced you

if we hadn't pleaded together, him and me.

- Yes, it was risky.

But you had to try it.

In his place, I wouldn't have hesitated.

- Are you unlocking or what?

- Don't tell me that no colleague never tried to do that.

- I don't care about others. It's you who almost got you written off.

- I want to avoid a judicial error.

An innocent man risks ending his life in prison.

- Do you see? You make it personal.

- It has not changed version in 3 years.

Not a confession, nothing.

What would you have thought?

- Probably like you.

Except that I keep a cool head.

I don't close myself off from the world when I fight an injustice.

Shit !

- Who's talking to me there?

My partner or my wife?

- Your friend, Jean!

I know your tendencies to isolate yourself when you are vulnerable.

- Stop putting yourself in my place!

But it’s boring!

I'm pleading in less than two months!

I don't need that, Annie!

Door slam

- I was at my grandmother's house when I saw the call for witnesses.

I remembered this evening, near the bridge.

- What did you see?

- It was 2 a.m.

I was going home. Finally, at my parents' house.

I saw a big car at a stop near the Van Gogh Bridge.

Headlights on.

- Where, exactly?

- On the other side of the bridge, on the canal.

I was heading towards Arles.

Was it one of these vehicles?

- I can't say.

With the headlights on, we saw nothing.

- What did you see?

- Two silhouettes behind the car.

In front of the wide open trunk.

- Describe to us

the morphologies of the silhouettes.

- It's just an impression,

but the person who was rummaging in the trunk

was bigger.

We didn't see the other one.

- So...

I would like to point out that Roger Marton is 10 cm taller than the victim.

As for my client, he does not measure only 4 cm taller than his wife.

- Any questions? Questions ? - No.

- I've been there around 2 a.m.

- A big, dark car.

Parked near the old bridge, full headlights.

It's not common to see a car parked there.

I thought it was a breakdown.

I slowed down to see.

There was no one driving.

The trunk was open.

There were two people

at the bottom of the car.

- Did you stop? - Oui.

They were thirty meters from me.

So, I saw movement.

There were two people standing.

And...

a third person on the ground,

at their feet, arms in the air.

Hubbub

- Quiet,

please.

What did you do next?

- I left again.

who had drunk

and the one on the ground was puking.

- But you called the police 8 days later.

- Seeing

the call for witnesses in my diary which I read every morning.

- Sir,

the person's arms in the air,

it didn't seem to you be a gesture of distress?

- He looked like a drunk

who broke his face and who wants help.

- No weird noise?

Screams, for example?

- I was listening to my radio.

The windows were closed, SO...

non.

- You have the body shape people standing?

- Not really, no.

- And the person on the ground?

♪ Radio and long distance

♪...

- Neither.

- Thank you, that will be all.

- Yes, thank you.

Sir, are you a second-hand dealer? - Antique dealer.

- Yes, antique dealer.

The night you passed by the bridge road,

you said in your testimony

returning from the Nîmes flea market where you had a stand.

You should have arrived in Nîmes early.

- At 7 a.m. for installation, yes.

- And you left again in the evening at 2 a.m.

- I closed at 8 p.m.

We went to dinner with friends.

- Oh, nothing.

Two-three glasses.

But I see where you are going with this.

I know what I saw.

- What you saw

in the blindness of the headlights, alcoholic,

after a day of work from 6 p.m.,

what you saw without hearing,

this silhouette in distress on the ground,

could have been a stump, bushes.

And arms in the air,

branches.

- Oh... I know how to recognize a brush of a person.

- Since he says he saw it!

That's enough, right?

What do you need?

- Sit down, please.

- He's the one who killed my sister!

Assassin!

- Gentlemen police officers, take Ms. Girard out.

Hubbub

We will resume tomorrow morning.

Audrey screams.

Porte

♪ Suite for solo cello N.1 in G major

♪...

Dark music

Howl

The bull blows.

- Hm...

How about you?

- You should be asked.

- It's the big day.

- He gave you the green light for his daughter?

- Non.

He doesn't understand that he has no choice.

- Are you planning to override his opinion?

- He is incapable of refereeing.

- So what?

- Annie,

the president did not speak only one acquittal in two years.

What choice do I have left?

- Your plea.

- That won't be enough.

I will do anything to save him.

- No, but do you hear yourself?

Do you think you're the Almighty?

We just ask you to defend it.

Ringtone

- Ladies and gentlemen, the Court.

- Sir,

you answered the call

by the gendarmerie in La Provence

eight days after the incident?

- Yes.

- You said you read this newspaper every morning.

- For 40 years.

It was called Le Provençal.

- In this case, you must have read the first article published on the case

relating the discovery of the victim?

- Certainly, yes.

- In this 1st article, published 48 hours

after the fact,

it was indicated the location of the crime and the date.

Black on white.

Why didn't you think so? at that moment

to call the police?

48 hours later, having seen what you say you saw.

- I...

No idea, I...

There was no call for witnesses. - Finally,

you didn't make the connection between these two cases,

the person you saw on the ground

and the body of the victim found in the same place?

- Listen...

I... I don't have an answer to that.

- Let's move on to the 2nd article published

eight days after the incident

with the call for witnesses

Once again, the scene of the crime was mentioned.

And the two suspects placed in pre-trial detention,

or, with the victim, three people.

My question is:

Wouldn't there be a part of autosuggestion?

Reading in the newspaper three people,

you said you saw three people.

- I have no memory problems nor vision.

- Damn, at the end. - Calm down,

sir.

- I'm not going to repeat myself!

- Show the defense attorney respect.

It is an Assize Court.

- I beg your pardon.

- Thank you, that will be all.

Um, any questions for the accused?

GOOD.

The hearing will resume

with the pleading of the civil party,

the requisitions of the advocate general and the defense argument.

The Well-Tempered Keyboard: Prelude

- To pee, it's now.

- I embody the voice

being a civil party on behalf of the administrator of these

to social services.

First of all, I must say that the elders,

Elodie, 13 years old and Ryan, 12 years old,

are perfectly informed

and aware of the situation.

I would like today

transmit to you their deep belief.

Neither Elodie nor Ryan believe their father capable of what he is accused of.

And by their admission,

They miss their father very much.

This father who raised them alone,

with love,

made sure that they have a decent life,

and this, in the indifference of a wife

alcoholic and absent for his children.

I'm not here to overwhelm

but to represent these five children

who lost their mother

and whose interest is the truth about this drama.

The truth.

At the end of the debates, I confess to you for my part

maintain serious doubt on the guilt of Mr. Milik.

I will obviously get over it

to the decision of the Court and jurors.

Thank you.

- I would like to testify of my respect

towards what they feel Mr. Milik's children.

But neither me, nor the Court,

nor the jurors are his children.

We must accept that between justice and their father,

they could very well choose their father.

We could never make this choice,

because Nicolas Milik is very guilty.

So,

you will say, the accused has no motive.

In what crime of passion is there an objective motive?

A tangible motive?

His is exasperation.

That evening,

the accused goes to Roger's house

to whine with his friend Marton.

Does he already intend to kill his wife?

No, probably not.

Marton doesn't have it yet strongly suggested.

describe the crime

which will take place 3 hours later

with a serrated knife like the one he owns.

The witnesses leave, on imagine

the two men stay alone,

keep talking,

and the accused allows himself to be convinced.

Otherwise he wouldn't be a man.

And it's there let the premeditation begin.

Dark music

The two men, like everyone else,

know where to find Ms. Cécile Milik.

They leave the bar,

to meet of their future victim.

Doors

by Marton.

Head to the village square.

Once you arrive at the bench, the accused shows himself to his wife.

She is drunk

and doesn't understand what's happening to him.

She recognizes her husband.

SO, she lets herself be carried by him.

We will therefore not find no trace of violence

They lead her near from the Van Gogh Bridge, it's quiet.

It's deserted at night, during this period.

An ideal place.

The terrible sequel, no one sees her.

The material elements of the file tell us about it.

She knows that people want to harm her.

So she struggles.

There she snatches

a piece of the wire

from her jacket to her husband.

She also scratches his neck.

But it's too late.

Roger Marton is behind her.

He holds her with his right arm, time for Nicolas Milik

Holding it, he plants his blade down his throat and slice it

from the right

to the left

with a serrated knife with brass knuckle handle.

The accused pulls the body of his dead wife

to the abandoned house.

where it won't be simple to find her.

Ensuite, Roger Marton takes the accused home.

He rushes home.

At home, he cleans the gun

with soap.

Like an eager assassin

any trace of his crime.

But not good enough.

Because a tiny part of flesh,

surely that of the victim,

is still there.

He hides his gun in a bag and goes to bed.

Duty accomplished.

Courage of the drunkard.

Before falling

he confides in his wife and said to him:

- I fucking did it. I did it.

- Tell me, Mr. Milik, what did he do?

Storage?

Did he relax in front of the TV?

Non.

You know like me that he killed with you and for you.

Because you are

both murderers de Mme Milik.

The fact that you don't drink doesn't help your case.

You accepted in full consciousness

your friend's proposal.

And that evening,

the love you claimed bring to your wife

and your children ceased to exist.

Mr. Nicolas Milik is like Mr. Roger Marton.

He is guilty of the murder by Ms. Cécile Milik.

His act was premeditated.

I require against the accused

a sentence of 30 years of criminal imprisonment.

Thank you.

- Prove it.

Prove your story, Madam Advocate General.

Don't tell me the evidence can correspond to it.

Be rigorous, say that they demonstrate this with certainty

or stop to take this story as true.

Because of evidence for the prosecution

against my client,

Like mobile.

Nothing.

Absolutely nothing indicates that Nicolas Milik,

calm, level-headed,

not drinking,

had some reason to take action that evening.

To incur life imprisonment at the Assizes?

A divorce would have been favorable to him. Finally, divorce...

You really wanted to divorce, Mr. Milik?

No...

Of course not.

I believe it when he speaks with passion

of the love he had for the mother of his five children.

Let's come to the material elements

that the Advocate General attempted to pass as evidence.

She first dismissed my client's testimony

in the name of a postman,

apparent and reasonable logic.

Be the worst enemy of historians evening of the facts that we are.

This logic on which the prosecution relies

is actually just a probability.

I think of this blue thread

lodged under the nail of Cécile Milik and who...

logically had more luck to come from the jacket.

It is less likely that his hand brushed the pants,

seen the scene described.

So what?

Are we going to condemn a man for that?

Because it is more likely that ?

Are we sure this thread comes from the jacket

and was torn away the evening of the crime?

Have we tested the lifespan a thread under a nail?

Who can assure here that that evening, Cécile Milik,

one hour before the argument, didn't move the jacket

by taking from it what would become

the only proof indicating that, perhaps,

maybe,

Nicolas Milik was present that evening,

at the Van Gogh Bridge, at 2 a.m.

Look everyone carefully your nails.

Check that he is not hiding there dirt.

Three times nothing.

Now,

wonder when your finger picked it up.

The morning ? The evening ? The day before ?

I repeat to you,

logic is the enemy of this room.

She opposes to the necessary rigor

what does the word proof contain?

So,

now let's come to this witness, sir...

Mr. Fouque, antique dealer, so sure of himself,

who claims having seen three people,

but under what conditions?

Let us resolve the fate of his testimony.

It is very fragile.

I would even say that it defies all logic.

How is it possible that the 3 people he describes

can hear nothing of his car's engine?

And can't see it coming in this deserted place?

In his testimony he said

that the two people in the back did not try to hide.

30 meters from him.

Odd.

Or if you need a logical explanation,

these two people were drunk.

So much so that they no longer took pay attention to what was around them.

Or...

However, Nicolas Milik does not drink.

And he wasn't there!

And it's Roger, because it was him,

who shortly after, with his knife,

will slaughter poor Cécile before fleeing in his 4x4.

So me neither I can't prove it.

But this is consistent with what we know

and I challenge anyone here

to prove to myself that it happened differently.

Because of evidence, you have absolutely none.

Before concluding, ladies and gentlemen of the jury,

I want to quote you

a magnificent text which I hope will guide you as he guides me.

"The law does not ask judges the means by which

“They convinced themselves.

"She instructs them to question themselves in silence and meditation

"and to search

"in sincerity of their conscience

"what effect have produced on their reason

"the evidence against the accused

"and the means of its defense.

"The law does not make them that this one question...

“Do you have a deep conviction?”

It's not even for the benefit of the doubt

that I ask you to acquit Mr. Milik,

but because I am certain of his innocence,

because nothing in his file indicates the contrary,

because he always denied, during these 3 years spent in detention,

because nothing is inexplicable

if he is innocent.

Mr. Milik is also innocent for another reason.

He was by all accounts a good father.

He only wanted love to his children.

If there was only one reason for which he could not

killing their mother, that's never...

he could not have wish them such harm.

Return this father to his children. Acquit him.

Because it will be fair.

Thank you.

- Mr. Milik, according to procedure, you have the last word.

Would you like to add something in your defense?

- Yes.

Uh...

Although I miss my wife,

she won't come back.

And uh...

But my children, thank God, are still there.

And uh...

they are all I have left.

THANKS.

The debates are over.

The Court will withdraw to deliberate.

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- How long will we have it for?

- Oh, it might be quite long.

- I wanted to tell you, Master, thank you.

Yesterday I wasn't well.

There you gave me back a little hope.

- Let's hope that the jurors are in tune with you.

let's see each other in the open air.

Notification

It's the clerk.

It's going to be ours.

Ringtone

- Ladies and gentlemen, the Court.

- The hearing is resumed, please sit down.

Mr. Milik, stand up.

The Court had to respond to two questions.

intentional homicide

against the person of his wife, Cécile Milik,

within the meaning of article 221-1 of the Penal Code?

If yes,

Did Nicolas Milik act with premeditation?

by a majority of at least 6 votes, the Court responded:

oui.

To the second question,

by a majority of at least 6 votes, the Court responded:

oui.

Therefore,

of these charges.

The Court sentences him to the sentence 20 years of criminal imprisonment.

Mr. Milik, you have 10 days to appeal.

The hearing is adjourned.

- Gentlemen,

gentlemen, wait.

I would like to talk a second with my client.

THANKS.

We're not going to stop there, Nicolas.

We will continue. - No, it's okay.

We stop everything.

- No, no.

We're going to appeal. - No.

I'm tired, I'm fed up. I just want to do my time.

You fought well.

20 years isn't so bad. - No.

Let me defend you on appeal. - No.

You must forgive me, Master.

- Why would you have killed her?

- It's okay, we have to go.

He pants.

He groaned.

He pants.

He vomits.

He pants.

- Maître ?

Excuse me.

Can I say a word to you? - Of course.

- I did everything

for him to be acquitted during the discussions.

- You have no right to say it.

- I know. But it's important that you know.

In fact, you have convinced all the jurors.

- Oh? - We all agreed

to say that Mr. Milik was innocent.

The president came to see us

and turned the wind in the other direction.

Everyone was impressed by her.

And there, listening to him speak,

they all began to doubt.

I'm the only one who hasn't changed his mind.

I wanted to tell you... that I was sorry.

So.

- Thank you.

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My life has returned to normal.

I continued to defend people with more or less success.

I never forgot that night.

But I ended up digesting it.

Put it aside and find the way to keep in me

to illusions.

And then one day I received a call from the Arles gendarmerie

informing me that a certain Nicolas Milik,

incarcerated in Tarascon prison

for the murder of his wife, was indicted.

Squeak

Door slam

- Thank you for coming, Maître.

I'm happy to see you again.

- Given the past, I'm not sure to assist you

in this new procedure.

I mean, beyond this interview.

- I understand your reservations.

But I promise,

I'm telling you the whole truth.

- What are we doing here?

What is this story?

- I was very alone, Master.

In the times you know, before my wife died.

Very alone.

She didn't do anything.

She had started to drink more and more.

She kept going all day.

So one evening,

I don't even know anymore how did it happen...

I put myself to cuddle with Elodie.

She's my daughter.

She didn't say anything. So, I started again.

And it continued.

I knew it was wrong.

But I was ashamed.

But I felt so alone that... there you go.

It changed and then...

Until she told me that she wanted more.

She told me to stop. It gave me a shock.

It hit me.

I apologized. She's my daughter, I love her, so...

I apologized so that she realize it was an accident.

So.

She promised me she wouldn't say anything.

And then I started again with Jade.

Yeah.

Except that there, Cécile surprised us.

She saw everything.

She threatened to tell everything to everyone.

Especially since she knew that I wanted to file for divorce.

That's why that I couldn't get a divorce.

She told me she wouldn't say anything

if I left him alone.

If I let her drink

and spend our money, do what she wanted.

She took almost everything.

I did the cleaning, the food and I took care of the children.

she started to make allusions.

At school, in front of the neighbors.

“You know, Nicholas,

“He loves his children very much.

"I'm jealous."

I couldn't take it anymore.

That's why it happened.

I had no choice, so I killed her.

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everything hidden from everyone,

starting with me.

To these witnesses who had described it like an exemplary father.

To social services who followed the family.

To my colleague from the civil party

having heard the children say to how much they loved their father.

How much they missed him.

Eternal conflict monstrous feelings

in hearts victims of incest.

The Beggar And The Thief

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