Author: cedric

A gang attacks a company to steal pay money. But things go bad for everybody. This affair has hints of the Bande a Bonnot (Episode 5).

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This is the second and final part of the Omar Raddad Affair. If you haven’t already, listen to part 1 first.

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On the 24th June 1991, Ghislaine Marchal, an old lady living in the South-East of France near the Mediterranean coast, is found dead with an inscription in blood naming her killer. This is part 1 of 2.

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In 1905, in Bordeaux, Henriette Canaby is accused of poisoning her husband so that she could live with her lover. Is any of it true?

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On the 2nd September 1916, Julien Papillaud and his sister Germaine, are found dead in their house. The gendarmerie suspects a robbery gone wrong and will need luck to solve the case.

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After WWI, an unlikely gang of gangsters is created in France. They rob high profile places and pocket large amounts of money. Their particularity: they escape in front wheel drive Citroens, hence their name: the gang des tractions avant, aka the front wheel drive gang.

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René Belbenoît was a petty thief sentenced to prison on Devil’s Island in French Guyana. Twice. He escaped. 5 times. And died of old age. This is his crazy story.

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On the 6th May 1932, Paul Doumer, 13th president of the French 3rd Republic, is assassinated by the Russian Pavel Gorguloff from 2 bullets, one having hit the president to the head.

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