It is a mystery that has been going on for a century. A crime without a corpse, without a clear motive. A story of an innocent sentenced to life imprisonment. But everything gets complicated quickly because if Guillaume Seznec did not kill Pierre Quémeneur, which supports countless supporters of the cause, he is still a little guilty of peccadillos intended to send the police on a false track. Justice hates this kind of chiaroscuro in which it often retains only darkness. Doubt benefits the accused, it is said, but darkness can just as easily make the Crown honey. One hundred years of unsuccessful attempts at revision – fourteen rejected to date – because perhaps based on an absurd scenario that requires a 100% innocent, victim moreover of a machination of the state apparatus, whose motives are difficult to discern.
Guillaume Seznec and Pierre Quémeneur, two Finisterians with a strong complexion, meet in Rennes on Thursday, May 24, 1923. They settle...
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