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Romand affair: thirty years ago, the murderous madness of the fake doctor

2023-01-09T10:55:02.734Z


On the verge of being unmasked, Jean-Claude Romand killed his wife, their two children and his own parents on January 9, 1993. A look back at this unparalleled judicial mystery.


This article is taken from the special issue of

The 10 criminal cases that marked France

available at

www.boutique.lefigaro.fr

Jean-Claude Romand invented a situation that he could have obtained without difficulty for real.

He lied to Florence, his wife, to his parents, to his parents-in-law, to his children, to his friends, playing the character of a doctor, when he had stopped taking courses at the faculty after two years.

However, everything indicates that he would have made an excellent practitioner.

He plundered those around him to ensure the lifestyle of his family, claiming to place the savings of his dupes in Switzerland at incomparable rates: was he not stationed in Geneva, within the World Health Organization? (WHO)?

It lasted eighteen years.

In January 1993, he smashed his wife's skull with a rolling pin, killed their two children with a .22 long rifle, killed his own parents with the same weapon, tried to strangle his mistress.

He missed his suicide...

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Source: lefigaro

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