1:20:05
of food you wouldn't give to a dog,
1:20:07
of guards and contempt,
1:20:10
of vulgarity
1:20:12
and the slow erosion
of a man's most basic quality,
1:20:15
his self-respect.
1:20:18
Yet I still recall
some ofher words today.
1:20:24
Periodically,
and indeed sadly,
1:20:28
major newspapers
write about our prisons
1:20:31
with their ever more
frequent suicides,
1:20:34
their riots born from despair
1:20:37
yet nurtured by
a decaying penal system.
1:20:42
And yet,
1:20:44
they do not depict in a true light
1:20:46
the one truly responsible
for this tragedy,
1:20:50
this policeman,
1:20:51
no doubt more dumbly
zealous than malicious.
1:20:55
The prosecution
1:20:56
has spoken brilliantly
about the death penalty.
1:21:00
But it is nothing
for us to be proud of.
1:21:04
Can we French be proud
1:21:07
of this instrument of torture,
1:21:09
this chopping block
1:21:12
that makes us more
an underdeveloped country
1:21:16
than the light of the world
we aspire to be!
1:21:22
Silence! Or I'll clear the court!
1:21:29
Your Honor,
1:21:31
I say, as did Pascal -
1:21:35
I remember that
thejudge was doodling,
1:21:40
and one of thejurists
had gone back to sleep.
1:21:44
I don't understand justice or judges!
1:21:47
Members of the jury,
1:21:49
today we are once again
1:21:51
in the shadow
of the prosecutor's guillotine.
1:21:56
Yet what does he want?
1:21:58
To have the executioner pick up
this man's head by the hair