Guest of the program "There is not only one life in life" Sunday on Europe 1, the novelist Maxime Chattam, specializing in the writing of police thrillers, told how the gendarmerie had modified a protocol of autopsy following a question from him.
The author asked this question to know if "it would work" in his writings.
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For his readers, the writer Maxime Chattam, who has just published
L'illusion
, "tries to create the perfect crime in a novel", he explains on Sunday in the program
There is not only one life in the life
of Isabelle Morizet on Europe 1. Certainly, "it is necessary that at the end of the end it is not so perfect" to allow readers to know the conclusion, he adds.
But this perfectionist desire is still at work in his detective novels, as evidenced by the modification of an autopsy protocol by the gendarmerie after a question asked by them.
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A protocol proposed to forensic pathologists
"One day, I submitted a very technical question" to "the IRCGN (Institute for Criminal Research of the National Gendarmerie, editor's note), the forensic police of the Gendarmerie" says Maxime Chattam at the microphone of Europe 1. The novelist then sought to learn about "autopsy details" and more particularly on the possibility of making certain "samples in a very particular type of victims and in the event of mutilation of the body".
"I had proposed that we could try to do that in one of my books, to see if it would work if the serial killer burned part of the corpse", specifies the novelist.
"They found the question quite interesting."
The IRCGN then told him that "in this specific type of crime", the protocol he had put forward was going to be included so that "forensic scientists could possibly dig on this side to recover DNA", he concludes. .
In other words, it is thanks to the imagination of the writer that the forensic science had the idea to proceed in a different way to broaden its skills.