Gaston Dominici with his dog in France in 1952.
The police commissioner Edmond Sebeille interrogating the number
one witness, Gaston Dominici,
in Lurs on August 10, 1952. Dominici was living on a farm 165 meters
from the site where the
English family was murdered during the night of August 4th to the
5th.
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The suspect Gaston Dominici, followed by an inspector holding the
weapon of the crime, walking towards
the
Durance river to show the
inspectors the spot where the murderer threw the firearm after the
crime.
Judge Peries proceeded to reconstitute the crime in the
presence of a hundred reporters. Gaston Dominici
first showed the
judge the shed where he used to hide his shotgun. Then he went to
the site where the
victims' car was parked and laid down on the
ground, saying that that was where he had possessed the
English
woman.
He then mimed the fight he had with the husband, the
inspector representing the husband who attempted
to disarm him. Then
he showed how, once he had wounded him in the hand, he shot
him twice as he was
fleeing across the road. He then turned towards
the area where the woman was, explaining that she fell to
the ground
when he shot her. Then he indicated that the young girl got out of
the car and ran towards the
railroad tracks. He himself ran with
agility chasing the inspector who was representing the girl, and
mimed
the shot he fired on her, which missed. Crossing the bridge
above the railroad tracks, he attempts to hop
over the parapet and
to throw himself on the tracks, seemingly in a suicide attempt.
Stopped in time, he
was then brought to the area where Elisabeth's
dead body was found. Once there, he was very reticent to
show how he
beat her, before miming the strike, with his cane, to the policeman's
head.
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