Cinema Wednesdays - Special edition: Gangsters in film - Loris S. Musumeci
«As I say these words, I am thinking, of course, of my friend Pierre Michel. This intrepid judge who gave his life to put an end to the French Connection. His death is a great loss for France. Justice must be done.»
Judge Pierre Michel was murdered on October 21, 1981, on Boulevard Michelet in Marseille's eighth arrondissement. Three 9 mm bullets. Death was instantaneous. He was riding home on his motorcycle to have lunch with his family. Two motorcyclists followed him, seizing the opportunity to shoot him. It couldn't have been any other way. The murder was ordered by the highest authorities of the French Connection, at a time when it was in the greatest difficulty, at a time when it was preparing to disappear under the weight of arrests. It was Pierre Michel who had been attacking it for almost seven years. She returned the favor. But the judge's fight paid off. And if the judge didn't win the war, he did win a battle, at the cost of his life. La French (2014) by Cédric Jimenez is loosely based on these true events.
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