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, looks back on 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. And aalmost the first fruitful months, the file gets bogged down again …
During a press conference, Thursday, October 28, 2021, Fabienne Boulin-Burgeat criticized the“interment” of the judicial investigation opened in 2015 to clarify the causes of his father’s death. Her counsel Marie Dosé denounced the refusal, in September, by the examining magistrate of 24 acts (in particular requests to hear witnesses) that she had requested as a civil party lawyer, and appealed against these refusals before the Versailles Court of Appeal.
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