Saturday, September 9, 1961, a customer of the Biarritz café “le Terminus” discovers the bloody body of a young woman in the toilets of the establishment. The husband of the unfortunate woman lies lifeless nearby. What exactly happened?
This crime of passion occurred in the Basque country, in Biarritz, six decades ago. The heroine of this story is called Françoise, she is a native of the Basque coast.
In July 1961, Françoise, a Biarritz teacher going through a divorce, returned from Tunisia where her honeymoon, two years earlier, with a certain Salah Mokhadem had turned into a nightmare. She took refuge in her parents’ home on rue de Constantine in Biarritz with her two little boys. Her husband of Tunisian origin, a certain Salah Mokhadem is experiencing the separation of his couple more and more badly. And yet, this Saturday at the end of summer, he proposes to his wife to meet again…
On Saturday September 9, 1961, Françoise, this young mother going through a divorce, was found stabbed in the WC by a client of the Biarrot café. Terminus. Her husband also tried to commit suicide by swallowing barbiturates and lies lifeless nearby, but the doctors manage to save the two spouses.
The day before, Salah Mokhadem also strangled his landlady in Capbreton, a 74-year-old grandmother, who is none other than his wife’s grandmother.
The murderer’s trial opened in Pau in November 1962.
