French court refuses to annul rape verdict against German father in spite of weak evidence. Monstrous miscarriage of justice?

A German man who served seven years in a French prison for raping his daughter on Monday failed in his attempt to have the verdict overturned.

The defense team claimed that Rudolf C. had been a victim of a "monstrous miscarriage of justice."

The case of Rudolf C. began in the summer of 1996, when he, his wife, their disabled 11-year-old son and their 8-year-old daughter were on a camping trip near the fishing port of Sete in the south of France.

A woman at the campsite contacted the police and told them Rudolf C. was sexually abusing his daughter. She was the only witness at a trial at which even the public prosecutor requested additional information because the case for the prosecution seemed so insubstantial. More...

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