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Robert Boulin at the Elysée on September 26, 1979, in Paris. AFP PHOTO / MARCEL BINH

Forty years ago, the body of Robert Boulin, Minister of Labor of Giscard d'Estaing, was discovered in a pond in the forest of Rambouillet, about fifty kilometers south of Paris. This Tuesday, October 29, his daughter organized an unofficial reenactment at the pond where his father was found on October 30, 1979 to advance the truth.

Robert Boulin, whose integrity had been implicated in previous months, he committed suicide by drowning after taking drugs as concluded by the first investigation or, in full war rights (between Giscardiens and Chiraquiens) , was he a victim of a state crime as his family thinks?

In 2015, his daughter obtained the opening of a new instruction for "abduction and kidnapping followed by death".

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Four years later, frustrated by the lack of progress in the case, her daughter and lawyer Marie Dosé tried to reconstruct the discovery of the body of the minister, with a comedian of the stature of Robert Boulin, and helped by two witnesses of the Time: A Samu doctor, among the first to see the body around 8:30, and an investigator, arrived 40 minutes later.

" The first witness, even though he did not attend the exit of the body, is able to explain that the face was out of the water and that he could see the bruises, the dried blood and this raised arm perfectly incompatible with the body of a drowned, reports the lawyer. As for the second witness, he saw the body submerged, not in the same place, and that's interesting. He explains that he was too far away when the body came out of the water to see the bruises, but that arm, yes, he remembered. This kind of raised arm that immediately made him think of a body " stored " in a car trunk rather than the body of a man drowned and committed suicide. "

Marie Dosé considers that this reconstitution, although without any legal value, was useful. " As long as we have not seen a body enter 60 cm of water trying to put ourselves in the duck position to commit suicide, we can not imagine the absurdity of what has been served for 40 years. In a second time, this displacement was fruitful to the extent that we were able to deepen the question of the displacement of the body, now acted, in any case in our reflection, because these two witnesses at two different moments were able to note that the body was not in the same place. So the body has been moved. The question is why ? And we will work on these tracks . "

The lawyer hopes that justice will do its own reconstruction.

To read also: Case Boulin: the truth is elsewhere (RFI Archives)