In 1992, Rais was retried during a media event in his home country of France, without any official involvement of the public authorities and the judicial body. The lawyer Jean-Yves Goëau-Brissonnière made a long plea at the UNESCO amphitheatre in May 1992. Then in November 1992, he organized again a self-proclaimed "court" at the Luxembourg Palace to reexamine the source material and evidence available at the medieval trial. A team consisting of lawyers, writers, former French ministers, parliament members, a biologist and a medical doctor led by the writer Gilbert Prouteau and presided over by Judge Henri Juramy found Gilles de Rais not guilty, although none of the initiators was a medieval historian by profession. In addition, none of them sought professional advice from qualified medievalists.