Title : The Full Moon Assassins - Jean Pierre Fabre - book

Summary :

Is there a relationship between criminal assaults and the phases of the moon? Many scientists believe so. "It is very likely that such phenomena exist, but science on this subject is still in its infancy," Professor Rémy Chauvin emphasized during the Leroy trial at the Périgueux Assize Court in 1989. Jean-Pierre Fabre recounts here the most notable criminal stories in which the role of the full moon has been invoked. Papavoine, murderer of two children in 1824. It was in this case that, for the first time, a defense attorney argued that the culprit was irresponsible: "Since punishments are inflicted only as an example, whenever the example is null, the punishment is barbaric." The madman of Bergerac, who killed twice, in 1961 and 1984, and who terrorized the town for twenty years with multiple attacks. The star-crossed lovers of Aubusson. Minh, the shy student who raped and murdered a thirteen-year-old girl in a villa in Montpellier. The story, too, of the Abbeville killer, who slept on his mother's grave on full moon nights and who, one night, raped and strangled a seventy-six-year-old woman.

• EAN : 9782910188160
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