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Place of Birth: Paray-le-Monial, Bourgogne-Franche-Comté, France
About Émile Buisson
- Émile "Mimile" Buisson (19 August 1902 – 28 February 1956) was a French gangster, and French public enemy No.
- 1 for 1950.
- A member of the French Gang des Tractions Avant, Buisson was responsible for over thirty murders and a hundred robberies.
- Buisson was pursued and caught by French detective of the Sûreté Nationale Roger Borniche, and was executed in 1956 by the guillotine.
- Borniche's memoirs on the pursuit, Flic Story, were later made into a film of the same name in 1975, with Buisson portrayed by Jean-Louis Trintignant. Buisson was born in Paray-le-Monial, Saône-et-Loire, and was jailed at the age of 16 for pickpocketing, swindling and possessing an offensive weapon.
- He was exiled to Shanghai with his brother for 5 years.
- Upon returning to France, Buisson was involved in a number of crimes and murders, becoming a member of Paris' criminal organizations, and took part in a hold-up of Troyes in 1937.
- In 1941 Buisson killed a passenger on board a security van during a robbery, and was captured by police during an identity check.
- Buisson was regarded as criminally insane and was committed to a psychiatric hospital, only to escape in 1947 with the help of Roger Dekker.
- Becoming French public enemy No.
- 1 for 1950, Buisson was eventually captured by Roger Borniche and was executed by guillotine in 1956.
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