Christian Ranucci [SEP] convicted of
Christian Ranucci
Christian Ranucci (April 6, 1954 – July 28, 1976) was one of the last persons executed in France. He was convicted of the abduction and murder, committed on June 3, 1974, of eight-year-old Marie-Dolorès Rambla.
His case greatly influenced the debate over capital punishment in France after the book "Le Pull-over rouge" (1978) was published by former lawyer and journalist Gilles Perrault. It called Ranucci's guilt into question, and had a
Christian Ranucci?" ("Who killed Christian Ranucci?"), Gilles Perrault, as well as the presenter, was found guilty of defamation and fined 30,000 francs to be paid to each of the five policemen, a sentence confirmed and raised on appeals and "cassation" to 70,000 francs for each plaintiff. In 2008, Perrault and his publisher Fayard were found guilty of defamation against the Marseille police in another book, "L'ombre de Christian Ranucci", in which it was stated that the investigators behaved with "thoughtlessness