Coluche The Accident. Counter-Investigation

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.

The digital version is enriched by the audio interviews that are at the origin of the counter-investigation :

Statement by Jean Depussé
Interview by Jean Depussé with Didier Lavergne
Interview by Jean Depussé with Ludovic Paris
Interview by Jean Depussé with Jean-Marie Marion
Interview by Jean Depussé with Sébastien X. and Gérard X.

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.