The hum of helicopters resonates above the Cévennes forest, while below, 350 gendarmes, aided by Saint-Hubert dogs, tirelessly comb the area when, around 7:15 p.m. this Friday, May 14, 2021, the madman emerges from a hole and presents himself to them, hands in the air.
“Excuse me, I surrender,” says a visibly weakened Valentin Marcone, thus putting an end to an 83-hour hunt.
A run as meaningless as the double assassination which had led him, four days earlier, to go into hiding.
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On Tuesday May 11, while taking his job at the sawmill in the village of Plantiers (Gard), shortly before 8 a.m., the 29-year-old young man coldly killed his boss Luc Teissonnière, 54, and his colleague Martial Guérin, all by sparing Vincent, another employee.
A murderous impulse that the “Rambo of the Cévennes”, as he was nicknamed, will immediately recognize, justifying it by a futile motive tinged with a delusion of persecution.
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