The family of a murdered French disc jockey are up in arms after the prime suspect was released because the court fax "ran out of ink" - a technical hitch that allowed him to walk free, reports The Daily Telegraph.
The 24-year old suspect, known only as Amadou F, had been in prison awaiting trial for the 2010 murder of Claudy Elisor, a family man lynched while working as a DJ for a private New Year’s Eve party in 2010 in Seine-Saint-Denis, northeast of Paris.
The suspect had sent a faxed appeal against his incarceration while awaiting trial, to which by law the court must respond within 20 days.
Although considered a matter of course that he would remain in prison, the court was obliged to handle the request and decide whether or not the suspect should remain behind bars during the investigation.
However, the court in Bobigny never saw the request as although it was stored on the fax, the device had run out of toner, and was so old they staff didn’t know where to find any more, meaning they had no way of printing out messages received.
Read more of this report from The Daily Telegraph.