NEWSLETTER “MISCELLANEOUS FACTS” N°36 – Every Sunday, find an overview of police investigations and current legal cases.
Dear readers,
After a two-week winter break, your news newsletter is back for the start of 2024. The week was marked by an unprecedented skirmish between the heirs of the Delon clan. Those who were presented as united in the face of the companion of the actor have been torn apart all week in front of the cameras.
Anthony Delon, Alain Delon et Anouchka Delon. THOMAS COEX – ALBERTO PIZZOLI – IAN LANGSDON / AFP
Anthony filed a lawsuit against his sister Anouchka. He accuses him of having concealed the negative results of cognitive tests carried out in Switzerland on their father. In return, Anouchka Delon announced that she was filing a complaint against her brother for “defamation», «slanderous denunciation», «menaces» and “harassment”. Just like Alain Delon against his son, also for “defamation»: “Alain Delon can no longer stand the aggressiveness of his son Anthony, who keeps telling him that he is senile”said the lawyer for the actor and his daughter.
This confrontation is taking place even though the Montargis public prosecutor’s office has closed the case between the siblings and Hiromi Rollin, suspected of having mistreated the actor. While the siblings are torn apart, the question of mental health and therefore the abolition of the discernment of the monster of French cinema, aged 88, is at the heart of the debates.
THE FIGARO’S STORY
In the rest of the current news…
- New celebrity burglary
The dark streak of celebrity burglaries didn’t stop with the new year. On Saturday, we learned of the burglary of star Patrick Sébastien at his home in Boulogne-Billancourt, in Hauts-de-Seine. This news comes just five days after that of an attempted burglary at the home of Nikos Aliagas in Fontenay-sous-Bois (Val-de-Marne). Athlete, singer, cook… No star profession seems spared.
Some, like the presenter Bruno Guillon, also suffer violent confinement. “Previously, burglars preferred to act when the owners were away. They acted in small numbers. Now, the presence of the owners no longer stops them. They come in greater numbers and often armed», had recently noted to the Figaro Tony Vallée, delegate of SGP Police Unit 78.
THE FIGARO INVESTIGATION
- Mysterious bones discovered in Limoges
The 31st of December, “a foul odor» emerges from a garden in Limoges. The owner decides to inspect the garden shed and discovers, by opening “cartons“, human remains with still “flesh on it“. Horrified, she immediately calls the police.
The first analyzes made it possible to establish that they were those of a headless man whose identity “remains unknown“. Saw marks were found on the bones. Two suspects, already known for acts of violence or traffic offenses, were arrested. But justice has not yet shed any light on this macabre scenario. “HASno track is preferred», Assured the Limoges public prosecutor.
- Tragic murder in the Hautes-Pyrénées
It’s been a week since the town of Bagnères-de-Bigorre, at the foot of the Pic du Midi, has been plunged into incomprehension. The house of a former rugby player appreciated by all was the target of a violent fire on the night of December 29 to 30. A “totally charred” body, probably his, was discovered inside.
After several days of research, his ex-partner was arrested in Aurensan and admitted to having shot him.accidentally». «Panicked, according to her statements, she decided to set the house on fire using a bottle of gasoline, considered taking her own life, before changing her mind, then finally left the area.“. The 35-year-old woman spoke of a conflict over a move, but the investigation is only just getting started. She was indicted and placed in pre-trial detention.
Yesterday’s fact
Le Figaro of December 29, 1973 Le Figaro
50 years ago, the teams of Figaro were barely recovering from a tragic hold-up that occurred at the daily’s headquarters on Friday December 28, 1973. And this, with the complicity of a member of the staff, a recently hired editorial secretary. “Two criminals managed, yesterday, early in the afternoon, to steal 300,000 francs from a premises of our newspaper», reports Le Figaro the day after.
The sum which corresponded to part of the employees’ pay had just been deposited on the third floor of the building at the Champs-Élysées roundabout, in Paris, by conveyors from Société Générale. Chased, the gangsters are arrested, the loot recovered but a passerby is killed in the shootout. The methods of the anti-gang brigade, which killed Jacques Mesrine a few years later, were questioned at the time.
Find the full story of this incredible heist told by our journalist Camille Lestienne.
On the agenda
- Trial of the “Madoff of Maine-et-Loire”
It’s an affair that shocks the Angevin aristocracy. Guillain Méjane, from the local nobility, is suspected of having defrauded, with his former partner, around fifty savers through risky investments and personal enrichment. The slate amounts to 16 million euros. The trial opens Monday January 8, in Paris. The whimsical personality of this former trader will be at the heart of three weeks of debate. - Trial of the murder of Aurélie Vaquier
Aurélie Vaquier’s companion, Samire L., is on trial from January 9 for murder at the Hérault assizes. The disappearance of this 39-year-old woman was reported in January 2021. Four months later, her body was found in a concrete slab. The verdict is expected on January 17. - Trial of the “Theo affair”
An ultra-sensitive trial opens before the Seine-Saint-Denis Assize Court on January 9. That of three police officers who arrested Théo Luhaka, in Aulnay-sous-Bois in 2017. One of the police officers is accused of having struck the young person in the anal area. The scene, filmed by video surveillance, sparked a week of riots. Tried for willful violence, the police officers face up to 15 years in prison.
To read
Julie Grand – Savie for La Mienne Editions Artège.
Five years after the Trèbes attack, Julie Grand, a Super U hostage saved by Arnaud Beltrame, testifies for the first time in a poignant book, His life for mine, published by Artège. She recounts these fragments of a second which turned her life upside down, the difficult path to reconstruction, her conversion to the Catholic faith and a new impulse for life, “best antidote to Islamist hatred“. While the trial of the attacks in Trèbes and Carcassonne (Aude) opens on January 22, Le Figaro met this survivor exclusively.
DISCOVER THE STORY OF THIS MEETING
Thank you for reading this 36th letter dedicated to news items.
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I wish you a good Sunday,
Esther Paolini, news reporter at Figaro.
2024-01-07 19:17:58
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