Patrick Tissier

Patrick Tissier's parents were in a mutually abusive relationship. Patrick is the youngest of six children. He was 11 when his mother left home. Patrick became an apprentice electrician. His father later dated a woman named Maria Luna.

At age 13, Patrick Tissier tried to rape his sister, who reported him to the police.

Between March and April 1969, he tried to rape his mother-in-law in his bathroom. He hit her on the head, and tried, unsuccessfully, to strangle her. His mother-in-law reported him to the DDASS, which investigated. He was then observed by a juvenile judge and several psychiatrists. He does not commit further violent aggression.[1]

Tissier was hired as a pump attendant at a service station. In a bar, he meets Marie-Françoise Pinson, a 16-year-old apprentice hairdresser. On May 1, 1971, Tissier, soon to leave for the French military draft, asked Pinson out to a dance. After the dance, they walked along the river near Bourges, Le Drouet, where Tissier tried to have sex with her. When she rebuffed his advances, he strangled her to death, had sex with her corpse, and threw her in the river. 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 du Cher". On April 25, 1972, he was sentenced to 20 years imprisonment. He was paroled in 1982 for good behavior, and was released on December 15, 1982. A week later, on December 22, in Toulouse, he threatened a woman 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 was captured in Nice four months later.

Tissier stood trial for rape, attempted rape and theft with violence. He was sentenced again to 20 years of imprisonment.

He was released early for good behavior again in January 1992, and moved to Perpignan, where he joined a Mormon community.[2]

On August 6, 1993, in Perpignan, Tissier raped and murdered his neighbour, 45-year-old Concetta Lemma. He wrapped her body in a shower curtain, hiding it in the tunnel of the "Coves" in Canohès.

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 against the ground several times, and she eventually fainted. Tissier undresses her. When she woke up, she was sure she had been raped.[3] As he was about to kill her, Gauze reasoned with Tissier, causing him to calm down and walk away.

On September 13, 1993, at 6 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 accepted his proposal to take her home. He parked near a warehouse out of sight and told her that they would play a game. He handcuffed, gagged her, and put a hood on her head. He forced her to hide between the seats as he drove to Fitou, and parked the car near an abandoned house outside the village. He put Karine in the back of the car, and raped her while holding her wrists. Tissier hit her several times, and eventually strangled her. He had sex with her corpse, and then threw it into the well of the abandoned house, concealing it with piles of garbage.

On September 21, 1993, Tissier was arrested by gendarmes at Paulhan, Hérault. He surrendered without resistance. Weapons were found in his car. He told investigators where to find Karine Volkaert's body. During the interrogations, he confessed to raping Gauze and raping and murdering Karine.

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

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

Étienne Nicolau is the lawyer for Jocelyne Milluy and Marie-Josée Gauze. André Coll is the lawyer for the Lemma family. The defense for Patrick Tissier is provided by Enric Vilanova and Pierre Parrat, assigned public defendant lawyers.

The psychiatric experts conclude that Tissier does not suffer from mental illness, but that he associates violence and sexuality as one and the same. He thus subjects his victims to multiple tortures in order to satisfy his sexual needs. Tissier is questioned about the murders committed in Perpignan and declares, among other things, that he "wanted" Karine Volkaert and felt impulses toward her the weekend before the girl's death. He recounts 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 apologizes for all the atrocities committed and declared that he does not want the city of Perpignan to have "another Patrick Tissier".

On January 30, 1998, Patrick Tissier was sentenced to life imprisonment with a 30-year lock-in period.[6][7] He will not be eligible for early release before 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. This law has not been used yet (2020).

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• "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.

• "The last trial of recidivist multi-killer. Karine's murderer had already been sentenced for rape and murder" Article by Guy Benhamou published on January 27, 1998 in Libération.
• "'He was a monster' One of the victims of Patrick Tissier told yesterday his ordeal" Article by Guy Benhamou published January 29, 1998 in Libération.
• "Rescued by serial killers: a Perpignan woman testifies" Article by Laure Moysset published March 19, 2013 in L'Indépendant.