Jacques Mesrine had a life that inspired a film by Jean-François Richet. And it was Vincent Cassel who lent his features and his talent to one of the most famous criminals in France, who officiated in the 60s and 70s, in Mesrine: the death instinct (2008). The man who died in 1979 had four children, but one of them Bruno Mesrine has just died in great discretion. This is indeed what we learn today from family sources.
Bruno Mesrine died at 57, at the beginning of September, we learned, this Wednesday, October 19. He was buried in the strictest privacy, in the Clichy cemetery, near his father. His relatives have announced, in pain, the accidental death of the son of Jacques Mesrine. His funeral took place, in front of those closest to him. Jacques Mesrine, he died at the age of 42. He was young when he met Lydie de Souza. She was already pregnant and he decided to adopt the child, so it is Dominique, his first son, who would now live in Africa. Then, the most famous criminal of Hexagon met after separating from Lydie, Maria de la Soledad, during a vacation in Spain. They will have three children together: Sabrina, Boris and Bruno, now deceased.
Helicopter pilot and magician
Sabrina, born in 1961, is the one who knew her father the best. It was she who, Porte de Clignancourt, discovered the body of the latter, riddled with bullets. She then decided to file a complaint against the State for “assassination” ten days later, and had claimed to have seen several members of the police, quai des Orfèvres, celebrating the death of her father by drinking Champagne. Sabrina Mesrine appeared on the set of Tout le monde en parle, invited by Thierry Ardisson, in 2002. In the famous talking, we were also able to see Boris, his brother. As for the late Bruno Mesrine, he was a helicopter pilot for a time, then a magician, and participated in the reissue of his father’s autobiography published by Flammarion in 2008, as reported SHE.
When the planets meet…on Tuesday, October 18, Jean-Louis Pelletier, one of the greatest lawyers who defended Jacques Mesrine, was buried in Paris in the presence of many colleagues in lawyer’s robes who paid tribute to him.