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?
A fight for the truth
Since 2015, the judges of Versailles have been leading the investigation for “arrest, kidnapping, forcible confinement followed by death or assassination”. The family regains hope and requests the hearing of all new witnesses who have come forward since 1991, when Judge Vichnievsky was dismissed.
After the first fruitful months, the file gets bogged down again. Fabienne Boulin-Burgeat leads this fight for the truth, determined to go all the way, even if it means bringing the case to the European Court of Justice …
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