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This series in four episodes from the magazine “1:15 p.m. on Sunday” tells the story of the Monflanquin recluses, in which an entire family was the victim, for almost ten years, of a manipulator named Thierry Tilly.
This four-part series from the magazine “1:15 p.m. Sunday“(X, #1:15 p.m.), tellsThe Monflanquin recluse affair, named after this village in Lot-et-Garonne where an entire family, although educated and coming from a long line of Protestant aristocrats, was the victim for almost ten years (2000- 2009), of an infernal manipulator, Thierry Tilly.
The one who claimed to be a secret agent managed to take power within the Védrines family. Over the years, he extorted their trust, fortune and happiness. The ancestral family castle, in Monflanquin, became a prison where the whole family lived as recluses. How was all this possible? Why did the de Védrines not succeed in freeing themselves from the power of this man? An incredible and edifying affair on the power of control.
A family reduced to slavery
From the 87-year-old grandmother to the 16-year-old grandson at the time, a total of eleven people blindly obeyed their “thought leader” and cut themselves off from the world. The guru’s objective was to rob them of all their property, a fortune estimated at 5 million euros.
The family exiled to Oxford, England, on the orders of Thierry Tilly who reduced them to slavery, owes their salvation to Christine de Védrines and her precious friend Hélène. How did they manage to get them out of there? Everything changed when Christine escaped from the tyrant’s clutches and recounted all those years of abuse and mental torture.
A signed series by Pauline Dordilly, Henri Desaunay and Fanny Martino.
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