Christian Didier, Date of Birth, Place of Birth, Date of Death
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killer of René Bousquet
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Place of Birth: Saint-Dié-des-Vosges, Grand Est, France
About Christian Didier
- Christian Didier (11 February 1944 - 14 May 2015) came to public attention after 8 June 1993 as the assassin of René Bousquet, a friend of French President François Mitterrand who had served as a senior police official under Vichy France, which administered the southern half of France during the German occupation.
- Directly after the killing, Didier telephoned a succession of newspaper editors in order to organise an ad hoc press conference.
- This meant that the police had no difficulty in locating him.In 2013 Didier sued an author for defamation after the author, in a biographical book on René Bousquet, described Didier as "fou" ("crazy", "mad").
- The book had already triggered a legal case alleging plagiarism.
- In the end the plagiarism charge succeeded and damages of several thousand Euros were awarded.
- Didier's defamation case failed, however.
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