On January 9, 1993, Jean-Claude Romand killed his wife, his children, and his parents, and then tried, but in vain, to kill himself. The investigation revealed that he was not a doctor as he claimed and, even harder to believe, that he was nothing el ...
On January 9, 1993, Jean-Claude Romand killed his wife, his children, and his parents, and then tried, but in vain, to kill himself. The investigation revealed that he was not a doctor as he claimed and, even harder to believe, that he was nothing else. He had been lying for eighteen years, and this lie covered nothing. Nearing discovery, he preferred to kill those whose gaze he could not bear. He was sentenced to life imprisonment.
I connected with him, I attended his trial. I tried to recount precisely, day after day, this life of solitude, deception, and absence. To imagine what went through his head during the empty hours, without plans or witnesses, that he was supposed to spend at work but spent in highway parking lots or the forests of the Jura. To understand, finally, what in such an extreme human experience touched me so closely and touches, I believe, each of us
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