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...very first day of the trial, one of the accused, Dr. Yves Gourvès, 25, declared through his lawyer that he would need an interpreter because he spoke only Breton, the native Celtic tongue of Brittany. Up rose District Attorney Pierre Aguiton with an objection. "The defendant speaks and understands French perfectly," he protested. "Otherwise, how could he have finished his medical studies? Besides, he answered pretrial questioning in French." Retorted Gourvès' lawyer, Henri Leclerc: "He may have forgotten his French in jail." The chief judge, François Romerio, asked Gourv...
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