PARIS (Reuters) - A public prosecutor asked France's top court on Thursday to clear a man of murder posthumously for the first time in its history, more than 80 years after he was convicted of the crime and sentenced to forced labour for life.
Guillaume Seznec was found guilty in 1924 of killing his friend Pierre Quemeneur despite the fact the police were never able to produce the body, the murder weapon or even a witness.
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