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Le 16 octobre 1984, le capitaine de gendarmerie Étienne Sesmat se trouve sur les bords de la Vologne, dans les Vosges, alors qu'on retire des eaux le corps du petit Grégory Villemin. Il ne se doute pas en cet instant que ce drame va devenir l'une des plus grandes dérives judiciaires des vingt années à venir...



Très vite, "l'affaire Grégory" défraie la chronique et divise l'opinion. Pour le capitaine Sesmat, qui sera le premier à conduire l'enquête, le crime de la Vologne n'est pas seulement une énigme policière, c'est aussi et surtout un monstrueux gâchis. Pourquoi en effet a-t-il fallut neuf années à la justice pour parvenir aux mêmes conclusions que les gendarmes après trois semaines d'investigations intensives ? Pourquoi les a-t-on dessaisis au profit de la police alors qu'ils touchaient au but ? Pourquoi ce dossier s'est-il enlisé dans l'un des pires chaos judiciaires et médiatiques qu'a connus notre pays ?



Aujourd'hui, Etienne Sesmat n'est plus tenu par le devoir de réserve qui s'impose aux militaires d'active. Parce qu'il peut enfin parler librement, il répond aux accusations dont la gendarmerie a été la cible. En ce sens, son témoignage constitue un document exceptionnel, car s'il apporte une vision objective des faits, il livre aussi la vérité d'un homme confronté malgré lui à un dossier criminel hors du commun, et à un système judiciaire qu'il a toujours servi avec confiance mais qui a failli.

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"Not sure whether or not I should write this review in English or in French. Don’t think me a snob before I explain. The book is written in French and French is my native tongue. The logic should lead me to the gallic language. But Colonel Sesmat’s narrative of a partially mad, partially machiavellian family crime, and of the politics behind it, should travel beyond French borders.
As of today, and unless I am mistaken, this has not been translated. Perhaps it should. I will let my English speaking native colleagues and friends decide.
For readers interested in the history of crimes, this one could be one of the most unique in its atrocity. It happens in 1984 in Lépanges, a French village of a few hundreds inhabitants. It relates to family, jealousy, envy. And the instrument of this revenge is a four year old little boy, a beauty of a child, who will be strangled, then thrown in the Vologne river. There is no trace of abuse of the child. According to Sesmat, Grégory, as an incarnation of his parents’ all-too-preeminent happiness and success, is simply an instrument of revenge.
To this day, the crime has not been resolved. Because of family secrets. Because of journalists acting like peacocks with categoric judgments, clever wording and apparent disdain for genuine inquiry and analysis. Because of a judge who seemed more interested in stardom than in truth. (As the dossier reopened in June 2017, I am sorry to say this same judge has committed suicide.)
Because of the apparent contempt of the Police Nationale toward the Gendarmerie.
A branch of the French Army, the Gendarmerie is often turned into ridicule at the time in French popular culture. French movies show gendarmes as silly and brainless. And yet the Épinal branch, led by then Major Étienne Sesmat, is not only in charge of the Grégory investigation but seems to be on the right track. Mistakes are made, but when are mistakes not made in investigations, specially in one where families hide, lie, resent—complicate? When the Police Nationale replace the Gendarmerie, they insist on a implausible trail instead of building on their predecessors’ findings. The consequences are catastrophic and lead to another murder—the murder of the main suspect.
The reason I picked up this book was because I had followed little Grégory’s story on the French press when it happened. The reason I am giving it a good review is because of Sesmat’s controlled and dignified retelling of the process, of all the drama behind it. Not only the murder of an innocent happened, but the vanity of the judicial, political, and press world managed to destroy just as mercilessly as Grégory’s killer. Not only by attacking the Gendarmerie, but by accusing Christine Villemin of the murder of her own child. Although matricides occur, Sesmat explains that here, neither proof nor logic leads to Grégory’s mother. Yet a judge, journalists and police combine empty efforts with persistent and irresponsible accusations. As a result, an entire country hates a woman who has just lost her son in the most horrific way and who now needs lawyers in order to avoid prison.
While Sesmat attempts to clarify the political, family and personal meanders involved in one of the most unique and heinous of French crimes, he describes in the process, and mostly successfully, three types of murder: one of a monster so blinded by envy and jealousy that he won’t hesitate to destroy a child to sign up his revenge; one of a desperate father; and the character assassination drawn year after year by press, law and order. All in all a worthy, if painful, experience that I would recommend to the crime reader and the crime writer."

Product details File Size 5241 KB Print Length 396 pages Publisher Belfond (October 14, 2010) Publication Date October 14, 2010 Sold by INTERFORUM Language French ASIN B005R9K0DG

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Les Deux Affaires Grégory French Edition eBook Étienne SESMAT Reviews

• Not sure whether or not I should write this review in English or in French. Don’t think me a snob before I explain. The book is written in French and French is my native tongue. The logic should lead me to the gallic language. But Colonel Sesmat’s narrative of a partially mad, partially machiavellian family crime, and of the politics behind it, should travel beyond French borders.
  As of today, and unless I am mistaken, this has not been translated. Perhaps it should. I will let my English speaking native colleagues and friends decide.
  For readers interested in the history of crimes, this one could be one of the most unique in its atrocity. It happens in 1984 in Lépanges, a French village of a few hundreds inhabitants. It relates to family, jealousy, envy. And the instrument of this revenge is a four year old little boy, a beauty of a child, who will be strangled, then thrown in the Vologne river. There is no trace of abuse of the child. According to Sesmat, Grégory, as an incarnation of his parents’ all-too-preeminent happiness and success, is simply an instrument of revenge.
  To this day, the crime has not been resolved. Because of family secrets. Because of journalists acting like peacocks with categoric judgments, clever wording and apparent disdain for genuine inquiry and analysis. Because of a judge who seemed more interested in stardom than in truth. (As the dossier reopened in June 2017, I am sorry to say this same judge has committed suicide.)
  Because of the apparent contempt of the Police Nationale toward the Gendarmerie.
  A branch of the French Army, the Gendarmerie is often turned into ridicule at the time in French popular culture. French movies show gendarmes as silly and brainless. And yet the Épinal branch, led by then Major Étienne Sesmat, is not only in charge of the Grégory investigation but seems to be on the right track. Mistakes are made, but when are mistakes not made in investigations, specially in one where families hide, lie, resent—complicate? When the Police Nationale replace the Gendarmerie, they insist on a implausible trail instead of building on their predecessors’ findings. The consequences are catastrophic and lead to another murder—the murder of the main suspect.
  The reason I picked up this book was because I had followed little Grégory’s story on the French press when it happened. The reason I am giving it a good review is because of Sesmat’s controlled and dignified retelling of the process, of all the drama behind it. Not only the murder of an innocent happened, but the vanity of the judicial, political, and press world managed to destroy just as mercilessly as Grégory’s killer. Not only by attacking the Gendarmerie, but by accusing Christine Villemin of the murder of her own child. Although matricides occur, Sesmat explains that here, neither proof nor logic leads to Grégory’s mother. Yet a judge, journalists and police combine empty efforts with persistent and irresponsible accusations. As a result, an entire country hates a woman who has just lost her son in the most horrific way and who now needs lawyers in order to avoid prison.
  While Sesmat attempts to clarify the political, family and personal meanders involved in one of the most unique and heinous of French crimes, he describes in the process, and mostly successfully, three types of murder one of a monster so blinded by envy and jealousy that he won’t hesitate to destroy a child to sign up his revenge; one of a desperate father; and the character assassination drawn year after year by press, law and order. All in all a worthy, if painful, experience that I would recommend to the crime reader and the crime writer.