Cold case of Argenteuil: accused of having cut up his father, he is acquitted

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.