The French couple suspected of infanticide scream foul play

Jean-Louis Courjault’s lawyer thinks his client is the victim of a plot to taint his employer’s image.

Could the recent discovery of two dead babies at the residence of Jean-Louis Courjault and his spouse, in Seoul [South Korea], be the result of an ugly scheme with economic motivations? This is what Marc Morin argues. He denounces the media and judicial lynching, arranged by the Korean authorities. Yesterday, the couple was interviewed for two hours by the Tours police, and were free to go at the end of the interview. French prosecutors are said to be about to ask Seoul to communicate them the elements they have collected so far on the case.

This case, which has been for several days now front-page material in Korea, started on July 26 {I believe it July 23… dda}, when Jean-Louis Courjault reported to the police the discovery on that morning of two babies, wrapped in a plastic bag, in a freezer located on the veranda of his house. He had just arrived in Seoul, in the middle of his vacation, which he was spending with his family in Indre Et Loire, for a short business trip. He assured South-Korean investigators that he had nothing to do with these babies, and couldn’t explain how they had turned up at his place. Released shortly thereafter, he was then allowed to go back to France until the end of August.

However, the analysis of DNA samples, taken on Jean-Louis Courjault and a hairbrush and earswabs supposed to belong to his wife, tends to prove that the French couple are indeed the parents of these babies. Which is why the South Korean police wants them to return as quickly as possible to Seoul, so that they can interrogate them. They asked France for help, and a prelimiray investigation was opened on Tuesday.

“People must have entered their home during their absence”

Yesterday, after his clients’ interview, Marc Morin tried to refute these material elements. He explained that Without tests made by a French laboratory, I consider that there is nothing against my clients. He says he is convinced that Jean-Louis Courjaut is the victim of a plot, and further explained that During the month that the Ciurjault family spent together in France, the alarm system in their Seoul residence was activated four times, which means that people visited their home while they were away. Another troubling element is the disappearence of a key and a keycard to their home, located in the French expat area, reported by Jean-Louis Courjault. Moreover, the consumption of electricity is said to have been during that month almost as high as a normal month.

Which leads Morin to conclude: My client is an engineer for an American company producing electronic equipment for automobiles. In this high-tech sector, the competition is extremely fierce, and we can’t exclude that he is the victim of a plot. The couple has declared that they have no intention to go back to Korea.

Korea, Courjault, Frozen Babies

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