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The French owners of a Seoul villa where two babies were found dead in the freezer deny being the parents of the infants and having any part in their death, their lawyer said Friday. He vowed the couple will return to Korea to face the police investigation here.
Police here say they have confidence in DNA test results that identify Jean-Louis Courjault and his wife as the twin boys¡¯ parents. The French daily Libération on Friday said the couple was now being investigated by police there and reported their attorney Marc Morin as saying his clients were innocent.
The Courjaults reportedly told police in France they would return to Korea on Aug. 28 to face police there, according to the Korean Embassy to France. Meanwhile, Morin told foreign reporters the Korean police investigation results were ¡°awful¡± and denied his clients were the parents of the two babies. Courjault reported finding in his freezer last week.
Morin said the result of a DNA test that Korean police say proves Mme. Courjault is the mother of the babies was carried out with hair found in the bathroom of the villa, and it was not clear whose it was or whether it constitutes sufficient material evidence. Morin demanded to know how Courjault could not have known that his wife was pregnant with twins. He also slammed Korean police of going to the media with insufficient evidence, which he said only added to the media frenzy surrounding the case.
But an officer with Bangbae police was confident. He said police already compared the DNA sample taken from the dead babies with those of the couple¡¯s son, and the result proved a biological relationship. The couple have two other children. But he declined to comment in detail pointing out the lawyer¡¯s statements were not an official police statement.
(englishnews@chosun.com )
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