Coluche the Accident. Counter-Investigation

Antoine Casubolo - Jean Depussé

Révoltes Series, Digital Index Publisher, 2025

BOOK IN ENGLISH AND IN FRENCH

ISBN ebook 9788899283193 expanded edition

222 pages.

EBOOK VERSION

 

What were you doing on June 19, 1986, the day you learned of Coluche's death?

Take this test today in France, you will see that people, even if they all remember what they were doing at that moment, have only a vague memory of the circumstances of the accident.

But everyone ends up telling you about Coluche on his motorbike, racing like a madman on a small road in the Cannae hinterland. About him coming out of a curve, about the truck that, maneuvering, cut him off like a wall of steel. Coluche, at full speed, coming out of a curve, couldn't do anything. He was going too fast...

The day after the tragedy, no one bothered to consult the witnesses. The newspapers limited themselves to reporting the information released by AFP. And yet, it turns out that Coluche was traveling at sixty kilometers per hour on a straight road.

The truck was coming from the opposite direction, practically at walking pace, and at the last moment, he turned left. From that moment on, many questions arise about the theory of the accident.

This book is a re-edition of the book published in 2006 (ISBN: 9782350760261 / 235076026X). The digital version is enriched by the audio interviews that are at the origin of the counter-investigation :

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Antoine Casubolo was a journalist when he wrote this book. Today he is a lawyer at the Paris Tribunal. He is the lawyer of the French Association of Victims of Terrorism (AFVT).

Jean Depussé was a journalist. On the day of Coluche's death, he went to the scene of the accident to investigate the circumstances of the event, to meet the witnesses of the tragedy and verify their statements. He dedicated his life to this investigation. He died on March 12, 2006.

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Index

• Preface to the reissue
• AFP News
• Sketches made on the basis of the statements of Didier Lavergne and confirmed by him on 17 May 2006
• The accident process
• Mrs. SBM's report
• The sentence
• Extract from the minutes of the Court of Grande Instance of Grasse
• Serge the Armenian
• Sébastien and the Montorgueil Dossier
• Gerard Desmaretz
• Why and who?
• There's nothing left to see