L'Affaire Rambla ou le Fantôme de Ranucci | Agnès Grossmann

L'Affaire Rambla ou le Fantôme de Ranucci

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The Rambla Affair

Agnès Grossmann

Collection : Intime conviction

Release date : 06/01/2022

A fascinating reconstruction of the Ranucci affair and a revisiting of the stormy debates over the death penalty and miscarriages of justice. Thirty years on, Jean Rambla, a witness to the ‘red pullover case’, finds himself accused of murder. Concise, thrilling and relatable, this story of individual destinies captures a whole era. A quest for truth, walking a line between doubt and intimate conviction.

June 1974, Marseille. Eight-year-old Marie-Dolorès Rambla is abducted in front of her little brother and found dead two days later, her skull crushed and her body lacerated by fifteen knife wounds. There is no sign of sexual assault and no apparent motive. It is a seemingly random crime for which... June 1974, Marseille. Eight-year-old Marie-Dolorès Rambla is abducted in front of her little brother and found dead two days later, her skull crushed and her body lacerated by fifteen knife wounds. There is no sign of sexual assault and no apparent motive. It is a seemingly random crime for which Christian Ranucci is guillotined two years later.

Four decades after the so-called ‘red pullover affair’, Marie-Dolorès’s little brother Jean-Baptiste is now awaiting trial himself for the murder in July 2017 of a 21-year-old woman, allegedly committed while he was out on parole after being convicted in 2008 of the murder of his female boss. Both victims were subjected to extreme violence, but there was no sign of sexual assault and no apparent motive.

The deeds of this man inevitably elicit our sympathy for his family, already devastated by loss and grief, caught up in the judicial maelstrom and crushed in the media frenzy. How are they supposed to rebuild their lives amid such terrible chaos?

Revisiting the case of Jean Rambla is also to plunge back into the 1970s – the France of Giscard when the housing estates of Marseille were still innocent places and the death penalty (ultimately abolished by Mitterrand) a subject of impassioned debate – as well as into the shadowy zones of the Ranucci affair.

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