The machine that drives you crazy

2024-01-30T04:48:20.885Z

Highlights: Pierre Bellemare tells the story of a family crushed by a piece of paper. A man defrauded his company while his wife and son lived in a public housing project. On the same morning of the tragedy, the “machine that drives you crazy” strikes again with this paper. What is this machine that ends up crushing an entire family? Tell your story in this episode of the podcast “The extraordinary stories of Pierre Bellemar’s”, from the Europe 1 archives.

[EUROPE ARCHIVE 1 - The extraordinary stories of Pierre Bellemare] At the foot of the building of a European capital, a body, crushed by the shock of falling ten floors. It is the corpse of Paul, a father in debt. Near him, the curtain of his living room, torn off in its fall. The investigators rush to the apartment. In the living room, his wife, Jocelyne, and their son have also both died. The person responsible for this carnage is a piece of paper, found in the entrance cupboard. A few years earlier, the couple had met in Paris. Due to lack of means, they moved into a small maid's room of barely eight square meters. The family grew. With their baby, Paul and Jocelyne obtain a small apartment in a public housing project but Jocelyne often falls ill due to the humidity. Her job barely allows her to pay the rent and her husband starts gambling. But one day, Paul hits the jackpot! Jocelyne is not happier, however, her husband begins to travel a lot until the day the police arrest him: the man has defrauded the company in which he works. All this money while Jocelyne, for her part, leads a modest lifestyle. But where did this astronomical sum go? At this moment, the “machine that drives you crazy” is launched. Jocelyne, drowning in debt, must repay her husband's theft, a little more every day! And on the same morning of the tragedy, the “machine that drives you crazy” and which never stops, strikes again with this paper that Jocelyne receives. What is this machine that ends up crushing an entire family? Pierre Bellemare tells this incredible story in this episode of the podcast “The extraordinary stories of Pierre Bellemare”, from the Europe 1 archives and produced by Europe 1 Studio.