0:00They were between 14 and 16 years old,
0:02they were wrongly sentenced.
0:06Ladies and gentlemen,
0:07settle down.
0:08Today,
0:09we are not talking about a settlement of accounts between thugs,
0:11we are talking about a judicial system that,
0:141 night of April mille-neuf-cent-quatre-vingt-neuf,
0:16confused the emergency with the truth.
0:18We are in New York,
0:20Central Park,
0:2219/04.
0:23Isha Miley,
0:231 white Joseph,
0:24is found in the bushes,
0:26raped,
0:27beaten,
0:28left for dead.
0:29His skull is fractured,
0:30his body squeezed him,
0:32she survives,
0:32but she doesn't remember anything.
0:34And there,
0:34the kings get excited,
0:351 white woman assaulting,
0:37full of Manhattan.
0:38The press, sir,
0:39of indignation.
0:40The city,
0:40it asks for 1 name,
0:42no matter what.
0:44When 1 investigation begins,
0:45under media pressure,
0:46we already know how it ends.
0:47The police find no weapon or witness.
0:50But she finds 5 teenagers
0:51blacks and Latinos who were hanging out that night in the park,
0:53Joseph,
0:54Kevin,
0:55Anton,
0:56Raymond and Corey,
0:5814,
0:5815,
0:5916 years old.
1:00Their crime?
1:01Being there at the wrong time.
1:02Their bad luck,
1:04have the wrong skin color.
1:05We isolate them,
1:06on sleep deprivation,
1:07they are interrogated without a lawyer,
1:09without parents.
1:10And after hours,
1:11they confess.
1:12Not because they are guilty,
1:13but because they are exhausted,
1:15terrified and promised that they will stay home.
1:18Imagine you are 15 years old,
1:20alone in 1 interrogation room,
1:22tired,
1:23hungry.
1:24No parents,
1:25no lawyer,
1:26just 1 inspector in front of you repeating,
1:29if you sign,
1:30you go home.
1:31You are questioned for hours,
1:33isolated,
1:34we show you.
1:34Pictures that you don't understand.
1:36And when you end up cracking,
1:37exhaust,
1:38the camera finally starts to turn to capture 1 fake
1:41confession.
1:41But 1 real victory for the investigators.
1:43But his confessions are incoherent,
1:45contradict each other and do not even correspond to the fact.
1:481 embarrassing detail ?
1:49Absolutely not.
1:50The police have what they want.
1:51And the proof.
1:52The DNA found on the victim does not match
1:54none of the 5 young people.
1:561 detail that justice will sweep away with a setback,
1:58like 1 of bread on 1 marble table.
2:00And then there's the Kakori Wise,
2:03He wasn't even on the suspect list.
2:05He came to the police station
2:07only to accompany his friend Youssef,
2:09out of loyalty.
2:10And it is this loyalty that will condemn him.
2:12Once on site,
2:13the inspectors take it apart.
2:15Same method,
2:16same pressure.
2:17She also ends up confessing
2:191 crime he does not understand.
2:20He will be the only one sent to adult prison.
2:22And it will stay longer than the others.
2:24Because sometimes,
2:26accompany 1 friend,
2:27it's enough to end up behind bars.
2:30Then comes the trial,
2:311 high voltage trial,
2:33where the whole city demands blood.
2:34The press nicknames them,
2:36it's Central Park Five,
2:37the 5 of Central Park.
2:39And politicians see 1 perfect springboard.
2:411 certain Donald Trump,
2:42in their own way of real estate,
2:44outlay quatre-vingt-cinq-mille dollars
2:46to publish 1 full page in 4 New York newspapers.
2:48He demands the return.
2:49The death penalty,
2:50yes.
2:50Before Twitter,
2:51Trump already liked to be heard.
2:53The jury does not need proof,
2:54he already has 1 designated culprit.
2:57Result,
2:57sentences of 5 to 15 years in prison,
3:005 lives broken,
3:015 teenagers sent to hell
3:03for 1 crime they did not commit.
3:05It will be necessary to wait two thousand and two for the truth to come out.
3:08Mathias Reyes,
3:091 rapist in a tight draft,
3:10already incarcerated,
3:11confesses to being the perpetrator of the crime.
3:13This time,
3:13the Daine corresponds,
3:14he acts alone,
3:15he does not know the 5 teenagers.
3:17He confesses everything in detail.
3:19And justice,
3:20this time,
3:21ends up listening to him.
3:23Convictions are overturned.
3:24But time,
3:25he does not recover.
3:27The youths gone,
3:28the stolen years,
3:29broken families.
3:31In two thousand fourteen,
3:32New York City
3:33agrees to pay forty-one 1,000,000 dollars
3:35to the victims.
3:361 to buy the irreparable.
3:37But money doesn't erase anything,
3:39not 1 cell,
3:40not 1 night,
3:41not 1 mistake.
3:42As for Donald Trump,
3:44he will always refuse to apologize,
3:45even in two thousand and sixteen
3:47when he was then a candidate for the White House.
3:49He maintains his position,
3:51and it was guilty,
3:52I didn't get anything back.
3:53Arrogance sometimes lasts longer than prison.
3:55The Central Park 5 are now free.
3:58But this case remains 1 piece broken,
3:591 judicial machine that first accuses and then thinks.
4:03Media that ignites before you understand,
4:051 world where sometimes
4:06skin color is enough to fill 1 cell.
4:09So what about this story?
4:111 judicial tragedy,
4:121 Egypt.
4:14Or just 1 more proof
4:15that history loves to punish the same,
4:17again and again.
4:18I don't judge,
4:20I'm just telling the story.