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The Son of a Monster
Since 2008, the Fourniret affair has been devastating France and Belgium. The serial killer Michel Fourniret was sentenced to life imprisonment for a series of kidnappings, rapes and murders. His wife, Monique Olivier, was also given life imprisonment with preventive detention of twenty-eight years. Their shadows continue to hover over some thirty unsolved murders. In 2014, the journalist Oli Porri Santoro began his investigation; and in the process, he met and befriended Selim, the only son of the diabolical couple. Selim had since built a new life for himself in the south of France, under a new identity. The day after their meeting, fate intervened. Selim received a letter from his father,...
The Tears of the Black Man
In The Tears of the Black Man, award-winning author Alain Mabanckou explores what it means to be black in the world today. Mabanckou confronts the long and entangled history of Africa, France, and the United States as it has been shaped by slavery, colonialism, and their legacy today. Without ignoring the injustices and prejudice still facing blacks, he distances himself from resentment and victimhood, arguing that focusing too intensely on the crimes of the past is limiting. Instead, it is time to ask: Now what? Embracing the challenges faced by ethnic minority communities today, The Tears of the Black Man looks to the future, choosing to believe that the history of Africa has yet to be written and seeking a path toward affirmation and reconciliation.
The Last Baron
A riveting, on-the-edge-of-your-seat tale about the notorious 1978 kidnapping of Baron Édouard-Jean “Wado” Empain, intertwined with the story of his famous grandfather, the first baron and builder of the Paris Métro. A multigenerational saga told against the backdrops of both Belle Époque and 1970s high-fashion Paris. What does it take to create a dynasty? What does it take to keep one going? And what does it take to save the life of the dazzling but flawed man who inherited it all? Launched in the 1880s by the first baron, the Empain industrial empire spread from Belgium and France to span more than a dozen countries. When Wado took over, he further expanded the company, became a key...
Ill Met by Moonlight
On a steamy August night in 1952, a British family settles down to sleep beside their car in a lay-by. Before daybreak all three of them, a father, a mother, and their ten-year-old daughter, have been brutally murdered. In a remote corner of Provence two worlds collide under a full moon. The British family are pioneering scientists and cosmopolitan; the French family accused of the crime are farmers defined by their land and codes of conduct which struck outsiders as feral. The accused farmers closed ranks and lied repeatedly in the shadow of the guillotine and to save the family’s honour. An inspector calls. With extraordinary tenacity he tracks down the man dubbed ‘the monster of the farm of the damned’. This is the true story of the most contested murder in France since the Second World War, the inspiration for films and tales of espionage, hit squads, wartime bullion treasure, and chemical weapons research. Doubts still linger locally in this part of France as to the final judicial outcome. Conspiracy theories about the reason for the murders are routinely aired, and some family members of the man finally convicted of the crime still claim his innocence.
Dream of Liberty
Treaty of wisdom, psychology, and feeder effectsPart 1, psychological topo: It is the battle of the regulation. It seems that the world does not go where he can and takes bad habits. It does not find all the answers to its needs and does not dream enough of freedom, leaving for account certain prisoners of their capacities. To dream, then to wish makes it possible to gain in coherence then to obtain solutions, inventive, intuitive. Sartre says that the hell, they are the different ones. In fact, a company functions as well as possible when one arrives at the “pleasure of the meetings. †Part 2, the feeder effects: False values hide, of true values hide, that one could suspect. Without-doubt is necessary it to disintegrate certain fears which reinforce the stereotypes that one is made listen to one the other. Far from the authority and his necessary concision and insurance, to weaken for better solidifying belonged to the challenges than one can give on television public, except standard.
ARISE AND WALK, O BELOVED AFRICA
About the Book Arise and Walk, O Beloved Africa recounts the main events and happenings of the African Union (AU) since its creation under the then Organization of African Unity (OAU) from 1963 to 2020. As we recall the past history of the OAU/AU, we learn of successive leaders and main decisions taken and challenges encountered since its establishment in 1963. This book is a recollection at a one go of what main issues the African continent is facing, how they were approached by different leaders at different times over the last sixty years. Read Arise and Walk, O Beloved Africa to find inspiration to be more focused on how to apprehend problems faced by Africa and possible solutions to ove...
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Free to Stand for Truth and Justice
Ousted from power by the French army on April 11, 2011, following the disputed presidential election in Côte d'Ivoire of November 2010, Laurent Gbagbo was charged with crimes against humanity before the International Criminal Court (ICC) in The Hague, on December 5, 2011. This book, written from 2012 onwards, thanks to numerous prison visits and interviews, is the only one to have been produced with the participation of the Ivorian president during his incarceration and trial. This unique testimony is more than ever a document for history, because it sheds light on the manipulations of the 2010 elections, the collusion between Nicolas Sarkozy's France and the ICC to get rid of Laurent Gbagb...
SECRET-DÉFENSE – LE LIVRE NOIR
Qu’est-ce que le secret-défense ? Qui décrète ce niveau d’habilitation ? Pour quelle raison ? Pourquoi l’acceptons-nous ? Jusqu’où peut-il faire obstacle à la justice ? Est-il tout-puissant ? Dans cet essai coup de poing, Pascal Jouary retrace une quarantaine d’affaires importantes qui ont été couvertes par la raison d’État. Il montre comment cette noble motivation a été dévoyée jusqu’à devenir le prétexte suprême qui empêche la résolution d’énigmes policières cousues de fil blanc. Ministre assassiné, journaliste noyé, lanceur d’alerte suicidé, informateur défenestré, nombreux sont ceux qui ont payé de leur vie leur engagement en faveur de la vérit...
