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Pierre Bonny | |
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 Pierre Bonny in 1934 | |
| Born | 25 January 1895[1] |
| Died | 27 December 1944 (aged 49) |
| Cause of death | Execution by firing squad |
| Occupation | Policeman |
| Criminal status | Executed |
| Allegiance |  Nazi Germany Vichy France |
| Conviction(s) | Treason |
| Criminal penalty | Death |
Pierre Bonny (25 January 1895 – 27 December 1944) was a French police officer. As an inspector, he was the investigating officer in the 1923 Seznec case, and was accused of falsifying the evidence.[2][3] He was once praised as one of the most talented police officers in the country, and helped to solve the notorious Stavisky financial scandal in 1934.[4] In 1935 he was jailed for three years on corruption charges.
During World War II, France was occupied by Nazi Germany. Bonny became a collaborator and joined the French Gestapo, known as the Carlingue. After the Liberation of Paris he was put on trial and convicted of war crimes. He was executed by firing squad on 27 December 1944, alongside career criminal Henri Lafont and footballer-turned-crook Alexandre Villaplane.[5]
Besides the overwhelming memory of him as a traitor and unscrupulous collaborator, he is commonly seen as the incarnation of a corrupt man and a doer of dirty work for the Vichy regime.
He is held to be the basis for the character of Monsieur Philibert in Patrick Modiano's wartime novel La Ronde de Nuit (The Night Watch).[6]
- ^ "Pierre Bonny". France Justice. Archived from the original on 2009-01-26. Retrieved 2008-05-28.
- ^ Between Justice And Politics: The Ligue Des Droits De L'Homme, 1898-1945, William D. Irvine, Stanford University, 2007
- ^ The French Against the French: Collaboration and Resistance, Milton Dank, J. B. Lippincott Company, 1974, p.214
- ^ Mug shots: an archive of the famous, infamous, and most wanted, Raynal Pellicer, Abrams, 2009, pp.125-127
- ^ The French Against the French: Collaboration and Resistance, Milton Dank, J. B. Lippincott Company, 1974, p.221
- ^ Golsan, Richard Joseph (12 June 2000). Vichy's Afterlife: History and Counterhistory in Postwar France. U of Nebraska Press. ISBN 0-8032-7094-1 – via Google Books.