In Verdun, the fatal fall at the Victory monument concealed a crime. The building in memory of the soldiers of this battle of the Great War is regularly the scene of tragedies, most often suicides.
An impressive monument was needed so that nothing was forgotten, from the ten months of the Battle of Verdun and its 360,000 deaths, in 1916. It was therefore a 30 m high tower, erected on a 15 m overhang of fortress walls. It is reached by 75 steps in the heart of the city and its shops.