Patrick Tissier

Patrick Tissier
Born (1952-08-24) August 24, 1952
Bourges, France
Conviction(s) Murder
Criminal penalty Life imprisonment plus 30 years lock-in
Details
Victims 3
Span of crimes
 1971–1993
Country France

Patrick Tissier (born August 24, 1952 in Bourges) is a French recidivistic serial killer and rapist.

Biography

His parents were violent with each other. Patrick was the youngest of 6 children. He was 11 when his mother left home. Patrick became an apprentice electrician. His father later dated a woman named Maria Luna.

Crimes

At age 13, Tissier tried to rape his sister. She renounces this fact.

Between March and April 1969, he tried to rape his mother-in-law in the bathroom. He hit her on the head and strangled her, but he failed to kill her. His mother-in-law complained and the DDASS investigated. He was then observed by a juvenile judge and several psychiatrists and no longer committed violent acts.[1]

Tissier was hired as a pump attendant at a service station. In a bar, he met Marie-Françoise Pinson, a 16-year-old apprentice hairdresser.

On May 1, 1971, Tissier was soon to leave for military service, and asked Pinson to dance at a ball. After that they walked along the river near Bourges. Tissier then tried to have sex with Marie-Françoise. She refused, upon which Patrick strangled her, undressed her, raped her body and threw into the river afterwards. The body was discovered by passers-by the next day. Tissier was quickly arrested in a downtown motel room.

The trial of Patrick Tissier took place at the cour d'assises of Cher.

On April 25, 1972, he was sentenced to 20 years imprisonment.

He was an exemplary inmate, and in 1982, he received parole for good behaviour.

On December 15, 1982, he left prison. On December 22, in Toulouse, a secretary was eating in her car. He threatened her with a shotgun and forced her to drive out of the city where Tissier raped her. He then went on the run. On December 23, 1982, he tried to rape another young woman, but she escaped. Tissier boarded many flights and was captured in Nice four months later.

Tissier was judged for his prison escape, rape, attempted rape and theft with violence. He was sentenced again to 20 years of imprisonment.

He was released in January 1992, and moved to Perpignan to start a new life, joining a mormon community.[2]

On August 6, 1993, in Perpignan, Tissier killed his neighbour, 45-year-old Concetta Lemma. He allegedly raped and then strangled her. He tied her up and wrapped her in a shower curtain, hiding her body in the underground tunnel of the "Coves" in Canohès. It would probably never have been found without his indications on September 16, 1996.

On September 10, 1993, Tissier attacked a friend, Marie-Josée Gauze, in Perpignan. He tried to strangle her with a scarf, but she resisted him. He hit her head violently against the ground several times, and she eventually fainted. Tissier undressed her, and she woke up, she was sure she was raped.[3] When he is about to kill her, Gauze reasons with Tissier, making him calm down and making him walk away.

On September 13, 1993, at 18 o'clock, on the parking lot of a primary school, Tissier waited for 8-year-old Karine Volkaert, the daughter of Jocelyne Milluy, a Mormon friend. Karine gladly accepted his proposal to take her home. He parked near a warehouse out of sight and told her that they will play a game. He handcuffed, gagged and put a hood on her. He forced her to get off the seat and hide. He went to Fitou and parked the car near an abandoned house outside the village. He put Karine in the back of the car, violating her by holding her wrists by force. She tried to struggle, and Tissier hit her several times. Realizing what he has just done, he strangled Karine. He raped her, then transported and threw her body into the well of the abadoned house, throwing garbage on top of it to hide it.

On September 21, 1993, Tissier was arrested by gendarmes at Paulhan, Hérault after a chase. He surrended without resistance. In his car, weapons were found. He told investigators where Volkaert's body was. During the interrogations, he confessed to the aggression on Marie-Josée and the rape-murder of Karine.

List of victims

Facts Discovery Identity Age
Date Place Date Place
May 1, 1971 Bourges May 2, 1971 Bourges Marie-Françoise Pinson 18
December 22, 1982 Toulouse December 22, 1982 Toulouse a secretary ?
August 6, 1993 Perpignan September 16, 1996 Canohès Concetta Lemma 45
September 10, 1993 Perpignan September 10, 1993 Perpignan Marie-Josée Gauze 44
September 13, 1993 Perpignan September 22, 1993 Fitou Karine Volkaert 8

Aftermath

On February 26, 1994, Dominique Milluy, Karine's uncle, took the chief of staff of the Mayor of Perpignan hostage in his office, under the threat of a handgun. He demanded that Tissier be delivered to him. Shortly after, he surrended unconditionally to the police.[4]

Trial

On February 26, 1998, Patrick Tissier began at a cour d'assises in Pyrénées-Orientales in Perpignan.[5]

Étienne Nicolau was the lawyer for Jocelyne Milluy and Marie-Josée Gauze. André Coll was the lawyer for the Lemma family. The defense for Patrick Tissier was provided by Enric Vilanova and Pierre Parrat.

The psychiatric experts concluded that Tissier did not suffer from mental illness, but that he associated violence and sexuality: for him, these two terms were one in the same. He thus subjected his victims to multiple tortures in order to satisfy his sexual needs. Tissier was questioned about the murders committed in Perpignan and declared, among other things, that he "wanted" Karine Volkaert and he felt impulses the weekend before the girl's death. He recounted that between the assault on Gauze and the kidnapping of Karine, which lasted an entire weekend, he feared the police would find him and hid in Perpignan. At the end of the trial, Tissier apologized for all the atrocities committed and declared that he does not want the city of Perpignan to have "another Patrick Tissier".

Conviction

On January 30, 1998, Patrick Tissier was sentenced to life imprisonment with a 30 year lock-in period.[6][7] He will not be released until the year 2024.

In 1994, Pierre Méhaignerie, then Minister of Justice, proposed a law called "incompressible perpetuity" which in principle does not allow criminals like Patrick Tissier to get out of prison.

See also

References

  1. ↑ "Patrick Tissier, the recidivist" in May 2008 and December 2009 in Faites entrer l'accusé presented by Christophe Hondelatte on France 2
  2. ↑ Georges Fenech, Recidivist criminals: can we let them out? , Editions of the Archipelago, 2009, ISBN 978-2-809-80295-5, chapter "Patrick Tissier, the devious"
  3. ↑ Begles, Dominique (23 September 1993). "Karine's assassin was the number one suspect". L'Humanité (in French).
  4. ↑ "A kidnapper goes to Perpignan" Article published on February 26, 1994 in L'Humanité
  5. ↑ "Justice against the killer of Karine" Article by Pierre Magre published on January 26, 1998 in L'Humanité
  6. ↑ "Patrick Tissier sentenced to life" Article published on January 31, 1998 in Libération
  7. ↑ "Patrick Tissier is sentenced to life imprisonment" Article published on February 2, 1998 in La Croix

TV documentaries

  • "The Patrick Tissier case" in 2002 in Autopsy of a murder on 13th street.
  • "Patrick Tissier, the recidivist" in May 2008 and December 2009 in "Get the Accused" presented by Christophe Hondelatte on France 2.
  • "Karine, 8 years old" first report of the "Special: they have recidivated" in Crimes broadcast on April 6, 13 and 21, 2015 on NRJ 12.
  • "In the eyes of Olivier: they were close to death", reports and interviews of several people including Marie-Josée Gauze. Posted on September 16, 2015 on France 2.

Press articles

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