His Own Free Will
This became breaking news in France. His trial was highly publicized as everyone waited to hear his statement on what exactly happened in the past 28 years, and how he was declared dead! Etelin said in his opening statement that Gilles could have “calmly waited for his case to pass the statute of limitations But to lie about his story had become unbearable for him. He came to forget his past and find a future.” He had become a changed man.