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The forgotten story of two French nuns tortured and murdered by soldiers in Argentina

2022-03-18T20:44:11.965Z


STORY - The sisters Alice Domon and Léonie Duquet were killed in 1977 in a "robbery of death", under the dictatorship of Jorge Videla. Author Frédéric Santangelo investigated their history in a book.


On December 14, 1977, an Argentine Navy military plane took off from Buenos Aires.

There are twelve passengers who look like the living dead, damaged by beatings, rapes and injuries suffered during their captivity.

A few officers watch them.

After about 450 kilometers of flight, while the fireball hovers above the deep waters of the Atlantic Ocean, the bodies, inanimate following an intravenous injection, are thrown into the void.

Eight women and four men had just been assassinated by the Argentinian soldiers, in what would later be called a "

robbery of death ".

".

Among the victims are two French nuns, sisters Alice Domon and Léonie Duquet, aged 40 and 61.

Their terrifying and moving story is traced with expert precision by the author Frédéric Santangelo, in

To be silent would be loose

(ed. du Panthéon, 2021), who conducted an investigation for several years, meeting witnesses and actors of this drama , peeling…

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Source: lefigaro

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