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James Murray, Associate Editor of London’s ’Sunday Express’, having read my ‘Die in Paris’ wrote this article about Dr Petiot and my book.
HORRIFIC FATE OF PARISIANS WHO TRIED TO FLEE NAZIS
In 'Die in Paris', Tomlins lays to rest the lie that family physician Dr Marcel Petiot killed because he was a resistance fighter working against the Nazis in the Forties and targeted only Germans or French traitors.
She proves beyond doubt how Petiot preyed on the anxiety of Jewish people fearing persecution, by lurking them to their deaths with a macabre web of lies.
One of the most devious deceptions involved fearful Jewish mother Margaret Kneller and her seven-year-old son René. Margaret trusted the doctor to treat her for minor ailments and when he offered her safe passage to South America to escape the Germans she fell for his lies.
Petiot injected them with deadly poison, pretending they needed inoculations for the journey, cut them up and tossed their remains in the River Seine.
Using a network of contacts, he identified those seeking to escape France for a safer life and murdered them, stealing their money and possessions to amass a 200 million franc fortune, about $15million today.
The full scale of his activities finally emerged on March 11, 1944, when neighbours reported a foul smell coming from his home near the Arc de Triomphe. When a fireman entered the basement, the source of the stanch was all too apparent. Hanging from a burner was an arm, then his flashlight picked out a human skull in flames.
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Later, Mr Murray concludes: Shortly before being beheaded by guillotine in 1946, Petiot advised onlookers to look away, saying: “This will not be pretty!”
It was a perfect epitaph for a man who had led such a murderous life.
