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Boulin case: new testimony relaunches the investigation
A testimony that marks the twist in a state affair that dates back to 1979 with the death of Robert Boulin, then Minister of Labor under Valéry Giscard d’Estaing. Had he been assassinated? As the case was about to be closed, a new witness was heard by the courts. His testimony clearly rekindles the criminal trail.
In 1979, Robert Boulin was a popular politician. A Gaullist from the very beginning, he was entrusted with the most complicated ministries. Valéry Giscard d’Estaing even made people believe that Robert Boulin would make a good prime minister… enough to infuriate Jacques Chirac. On the morning of October 30, Robert Boulin’s body was found in a pond in the Rambouillet forest (Yvelines). The investigation then concluded that it was suicide, which was recently refuted by a new witness.
In a world-famous swingers club that is now closed, this witness reportedly witnessed a strange scene. “In this club there was the aristocracy, the thugocracy. It was a mixture of genres that mixed well there”he testifies. One evening, he attends an intriguing discussion that would suggest that the Minister of Labor at the time had been assassinated. When he recounted the scene to the judge of Versailles, she decided to reopen the case. After 45 years of an incredible legal saga, the relatives of the former minister would like the truth.