This four-part series of the magazine “1:15 p.m. Sunday“(Twitter, #1:15 p.m.), signed Marie-Pierre Farkas, Henri Desaunay, Jean-Marie Lequertier and Benoît Viudès, returns to this State affair, one of the most complex of the Fifth Republic: Robert Boulin, Minister of Labor and Participation of Valéry Giscard d’Estaing, was found dead, on October 30, 1979, in a pond in the forest of Rambouillet, in the Yvelines.
His daughter, Fabienne Boulin-Burgeat, has refused for forty-two years the official thesis of suicide in fifty centimeters of water. And justice proved him right. A college of experts appointed by the judge of Versailles, who has been investigating the case since 2015, ruled in November 2020: nothing in the examinations carried out at the time made it possible to conclude that the minister had died by drowning, and even less in his suicide. So who ordered the death of a minister in office, whom some already saw in Matignon?
Anomalies of the investigation
No one can suspect, on that evening in October 1979, that the politician, perhaps soon to be Prime Minister, left for the Rambouillet forest for a secret meeting which will be fatal to him. His relatives believe he has found a way to end the campaign of slander his political friends have orchestrated against him.
There are the disturbing photos of forensic identification and there is less and less doubt. Robert Boulin’s face is swollen, as if violent blows had been struck. And the list of anomalies of the investigation, ordered at the material time, immediately after the discovery of the body, is long …
> Replays of France Télévisions news magazines are available on the Franceinfo website and its mobile application (iOS & Android), “Magazines” section.
data: image / gif; base64, R0lGODlhAQABAAAAACH5BAEKAAEALAAAAAABAAEAAAICTAEAOw ==