Jérôme Carrein

Murderer

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Case Facts

Gender: male
Country: France
Location: Palluel, Nord-Pas-de-Calais, France
Date of birth: 19 39
Characteristics: rape, alcoholic
Victim profile: Cathy Petit, 8
Method of murder: Drowning
Date(s) of murder: October 27, 1975
Years active: 1975
Date of arrest: Same day
Status: Executed
Executed by guillotine in the yard of Douai prison on June 23, 1977

Case Summary

Overview

Jérôme Carrein (1939 — June 23, 1977) was executed by guillotine in the yard of Douai prison on June 23, 1977. He was the second-last convicted criminal to be executed by decapitation in France.

Timeline

October 27 1975 — Jérôme Carrein met an eight-year-old local girl at Arleux, Northern France.
October 28 1975 — Carrein was arrested and confessed his crime.
July 12 1976 — Carrein was sentenced to death by the Pas-de-Calais criminal court at Saint Omer.
July 24 1976 — Christian Ranucci, also sentenced to death for a child murder, was guillotined at Marseille's Baumettes prison twelve days later.
February 1 1977 — Carrein was retried and sentenced to death a second time by the criminal court in Douai.
mid-June 1977 — Carrein’s final appeal was turned down by President Valéry Giscard d’Estaing.
June 23 1977 — Carrein was guillotined at 4.30 a.m. in the yard of Douai prison; the executioner was Marcel Chevalier.

Background

Jérôme Carrein was the father of five children. He had often been of no fixed abode, was an alcoholic, and was a tuberculosis sufferer.

The offence

On October 27 1975 in Arleux, Northern France, Carrein met an eight-year-old local girl, the daughter of the owner of a bar he was known to frequent. He was to entice her to follow him into the nearby marshlands to search for fish bait. In the marshlands, he attempted to rape the child before strangling and drowning her.

Investigation, arrest and confession

Carrein was arrested the next day after the offence. He confessed his crime.

Trial

First trial

Carrein was tried before the Pas-de-Calais criminal court at Saint Omer. He was found guilty and sentenced to death on July 12 1976.

Second trial

Carrein appealed against his sentence. He was retried on February 1, 1977 at the criminal court in Douai. Two weeks before the second trial began, Patrick Henry, another child murderer, had narrowly escaped a death sentence at the criminal court in Troyes thanks to the skill of his lawyer, Robert Badinter, and public outrage in France was particularly strong. Carrein was sentenced to death a second time.

Appeals and clemency

Carrein’s final appeal in mid-June 1977 was turned down by President Valéry Giscard d’Estaing.

Sentencing and execution

Carrein was guillotined at 4.30 a.m. on June 23, 1977 in the yard of Douai prison. The executioner was Marcel Chevalier.

Aftermath

Only one more convicted criminal—Hamida Djandoubi—would suffer death upon the guillotine in France.

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