Gaston Dominici
Gaston Dominici (* 1877 , † 1965 ) was a French winemaker and three-time murderer .
did
On August 4, 1952, Dominici killed a British family of three vacationers whom he had left to sleep in the open air on his farm in the Durance valley . After watching mother and daughter undress that evening, he crept to their sleeping quarters. When the father woke up, Dominici shot the parents and killed the daughter with the butt of the rifle.
The victims were Sir Jack Drummond , a nutritionist , his wife Ann, and their ten-year-old daughter Elizabeth; they were buried in the Forcalquier cemetery.
Judgment, punishment and death
After his arrest on November 13, 1953, Dominici made a full confession , which he later revoked. The first unanimously imposed on 28 November 1954 the death penalty was by act of grace on the part of Charles de Gaulle into a lifelong prison sentence converted; in 1960 he was released for age reasons. He died in a retirement home in 1965.
reception
The case was, among other things, the basis of the 1973 film The Dominici Affair with Gérard Depardieu , served as a template for a comic in 2010 and was picked up again by the media in 2012 on the occasion of a similar act.
Individual evidence
- ↑ a b c d e f Sinn, Dieter: Das große Verbrecherlexikon, Pawlak, Herrsching 1984, ISBN 3-88199-146-8 , p. 117
- ↑ a b c d e f g The Enigmatic Dominici Affair.Retrieved June 13, 2020
| personal data | |
|---|---|
| SURNAME | Dominici, Gaston |
| BRIEF DESCRIPTION | French winemaker and triple murderer |
| DATE OF BIRTH | 1877 |
| DATE OF DEATH | 1965 |