On January 9, 1993, Jean-Claude Romand killed his wife, his children, his parents, then tried, but in vain, to kill himself. The investigation revealed that he was not a doctor as he claimed to be and, even more difficult to believe, that he was noth ...
On January 9, 1993, Jean-Claude Romand killed his wife, his children, his parents, then tried, but in vain, to kill himself. The investigation revealed that he was not a doctor as he claimed to be and, even more difficult to believe, that he was nothing else. He had been lying for eighteen years, and this lie covered nothing. Close to being discovered, he preferred to eliminate those whose gaze he could not stand. He was sentenced to life imprisonment.
I got in touch with him, I attended his trial. I tried to tell precisely, day after day, this life of solitude, imposture and absence. To imagine what was going through his head during the empty hours, without plans or witnesses, that he was supposed to spend at work and actually spent on motorway parking lots or in 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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