“The ghosts of Outreau are there”: more than twenty years later, Alain Marécaux, acquitted on appeal, confides

It has been more than eleven years since he spoke. Since November 13, 2011, precisely ten years following being arrested as part of an investigation for sexual assault on minors, Alain Marécaux, bailiff, has no longer spoken publicly regarding the case of Outreau. After 691 days of detention, several suicide attempts and hunger strikes, he was acquitted during the appeal trial in Paris on December 1, 2005, following being involuntarily implicated by his son François-Xavier – evoking then the game of “the kissing machine” with his father – and condemned for it in the first instance. Now 58, he has agreed to reverse the legal fiasco that destroyed his life in an edifying docu-fictionthe first part of which is broadcast this Tuesday at 9:10 p.m., on France 2.