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Christian Didier
Christian Didier (11 February 1944 – 14 May 2015) came to public attention after 8 June 1993 as the assassin of René Bousquet, a friend of French President François Mitterrand, who had served as a senior police official under Vichy France, which administered the southern half of France during the German occupation. Directly after the killing, Didier telephoned a succession of newspaper editors in order to organise an ad hoc press conference, meaning that the police had no difficulty in locating him. In 2013, Didier unsuccessfully sued an author for defamation after the author, in a biographical book on Bousquet, described Didier as ''fou'' ("crazy", "mad"). Biography Provenance and early years Christian Didier was born at Saint Dié, then a small and relatively isolated industrial town in the Vosges foothills to the south-east of Nancy. His father is described in sources as an "artisan hairdresser", with whom he was frequently involved in violent conflict. Despite more than ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
René Bousquet
René Bousquet (; 11 May 1909 – 8 June 1993) was a high-ranking French political appointee who served as secretary general to the Vichy French police from May 1942 to 31 December 1943. For personal heroism, he had become a protégé of prominent officials before the war and had risen rapidly in the government. In 1949, Bousquet was automatically convicted as a Vichy official and sentenced to five years of '' indignité nationale'', but his sentence was reduced due to beliefs that he also aided the French Resistance and attempted to preserve some autonomy for French police during the German occupation. Excluded from the government, he went into business. After receiving amnesty in 1959, Bousquet became active again in politics by supporting left-wing politicians through the 1970s and becoming a regular visitor in the 1980s of François Mitterrand after his election as president. In 1989, after years of increasing accusations about his activities during the war, Bousquet was a ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
