Christian Didier
Christian Didier | |
|---|---|
| Born | 11 February 1944 |
| Died | 14 May 2015 (aged 71) |
| Motive | Vigilantism |
| Conviction | Murder |
| Criminal penalty | 10 years imprisonment |
| Details | |
| Victims | René Bousquet, 84 |
| Date | 8 June 1993 |
Christian Didier (French pronunciation: [kʁistjɑ̃ didje]; 11 February 1944 – 14 May 2015) came to public attention after 8 June 1993 as the assassin of René Bousquet, a friend of French President François Mitterrand, who had served as a senior police official under Vichy France, which administered the southern half of France during the German occupation. Directly after the killing, Didier telephoned a succession of newspaper editors in order to organise an ad hoc press conference, meaning that the police had no difficulty in locating him.
In 2013, Didier unsuccessfully sued Alain Minc for defamation after the author, in a biographical book on Bousquet, described Didier as fou ("crazy", "mad").