Butcher of Paris, The

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Police later took away “33 pounds of charred bones, 11 pounds of human hair, including more than 10 whole scalps, and three dustbins full of pieces too small to identify”. The “demon barber” has been the subject of so many portrayals that it is difficult to know where exactly the original story comes from, let alone uncover the truth about the original demon barber, if, indeed, there ever was one. Petiot's most lucrative activity during the Occupation was his false escape route. Using the codename "Dr. Eugène", Petiot pretended to have a means of getting people wanted by the Germans or the Vichy government to safety outside France. Petiot claimed that he could arrange a passage to Argentina or elsewhere in South America through Portugal, for a price of 25,000 francs per person. Three accomplices, Raoul Fourrier, Edmond Pintard, and René-Gustave Nézondet, directed victims to "Dr. Eugène", including Jews, Resistance fighters, and ordinary criminals. Once victims were in his control, Petiot told them that Argentine officials required all entrants to the country to be inoculated against disease, and with this excuse injected them with cyanide. He then took all their valuables and disposed of the bodies.

Theroux, Paul (1995). The Pillars of Hercules: A Grand Tour of the Mediterranean. New York: Fawcett Columbine. p.207. ISBN 0449910857. In all, the story isn't much slow paced, yet very small. I mean the story ends with the death penalty of the culprit. Cmon dude! I wanted more.

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fut deux âmes maudites par leurs affreux forfaits l'un barbier sanguinaire pâtissier téméraire découverts par un chien faisant manger au monde a b c d Strothmann, Dietrich (5 November 1982). "Der Fall Klaus Barbie: Den Diktatoren stets zu Diensten". Die Zeit. ISSN 0044-2070 . Retrieved 16 January 2020. However, the most telling piece of evidence in regards to our original, 14th century demon barber, comes in the form of a folksong. It was originally written in 1387 (the exact year that the barber and butcher were said to be executed.) He was known throughout Paris as a freedom fighter who would help smuggle away anyone being hunted by the Nazis.

However, the police found that Petiot had no friends in any of the major Resistance groups. Some of the Resistance groups he spoke of had never existed, and there was no proof of any of his claimed exploits. Prosecutors eventually charged him with at least 27 murders for profit. Their estimate of his gains was as much as 200 million francs. a b c "Crime Library: Serial Killers: Dr. Marcel Petiot". TruTV.com. Archived from the original on 2012-10-07 . Retrieved 2013-06-11.

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I mean this graphic-novel is like, you wanna read a crime story, but aren't comfortable with R rated stuffs and too complex plots. Petiot volunteered for the French Army in World War I, entering service in January 1916. [3] He was wounded and gassed in the Second Battle of the Aisne, and exhibited more symptoms of a mental breakdown. Petiot was sent to various rest homes, where he was arrested for stealing army blankets, morphine, and other army supplies, as well as wallets, photographs, and letters; he was jailed in Orléans. In a psychiatric hospital in Fleury-les-Aubrais, Petiot was again diagnosed with various mental illnesses, but was returned to the front in June 1918. He was transferred three weeks later after he allegedly injured his own foot with a grenade, but was attached to a new regiment in September. A new diagnosis was enough to get him discharged with a disability pension. [3] Medical and political career [ edit ] In 1972, it was discovered he was in Bolivia. While in Bolivia, the West German Intelligence Service recruited him. Barbie is suspected of having had a role in the Bolivian coup d'état orchestrated by Luis García Meza in 1980. After the fall of the dictatorship, Barbie lost the protection of the government in La Paz. In 1983, he was arrested and extradited to France, where he was convicted of crimes against humanity and sentenced to life in prison. Although he had been sentenced to death in absentia twice earlier, in 1947 and 1954, capital punishment had been abolished in France in 1981. Barbie died of cancer in prison in 1991, at age 77.The story is based on nobody's perspective which adds a major flaw. Unlike, From hell where Alan Moore has written 95% of the incidents from the antagonist's point of view. The French discovered that Barbie was in U.S. hands; having sentenced him to death in absentia for war crimes, they made a plea to John J. McCloy, US High Commissioner for Germany, to hand him over for execution, but McCloy refused. [18] Instead, the CIC helped him flee to Bolivia assisted by " ratlines" organised by US intelligence services, [20] as well as by Croatian Roman Catholic clergy, including Krunoslav Draganović. The CIC asserted that Barbie knew too much about the network of German spies the CIC had planted in various European communist organisations. It was suspicious of communist influence within the Government of France, but their protection of Barbie may have been as much to avoid the embarrassment of having recruited him in the first place. [16] Other authors have suggested that the anticommunist element of Italian fascism and the protection of the Vatican allowed Klaus Barbie and other Nazis to flee to Bolivia. [21] Laetitia Grevers (4 November 2012). "The Butcher of Bolivia". Bolivian Express Magazine . Retrieved 31 March 2016. Marcel Petiot was a doctor who exploited his French Resistance status to kill Jews fleeing the Nazi regime in France's capital during WW2. The Butcher of Paris follows the uncovering of his crimes by Jodkum, a cruel Gestapo officer, Commissaire Massu, a kind detective and Bernard, Massu's son and protégé. Though the Gestapo's antisemitic agenda and other sociopolitical factors get in the way of Petiot's capture, it isn't long before he is caught and put to trial. SynopSin: As if the atrocities of WWII weren’t enough, more darkness is unearthed. Crazy true story of a French serial killer killing women, and Jews, in Paris during WWII. I had never heard of Petiot, or his sordid deeds. I will need to do a deeper dive into this. The volume I have felt rushed, and several aspects unexplained. Overall, the story was well-told and the art, though macabre, was brilliant.