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Patrick Wittier, 59, hugs his partner, Agnès, in the middle of the courtroom. In Pontoise this Thursday evening, after three and a half days of hearing and after a deliberation of less than three hours, the Val-d’Oise Assize Court has just acquitted him. Patrick Wittier, who appeared free, was accused of having killed and cut up his father, twenty years ago, in Argenteuil.