Christian Didier
Killer of René Bousquet / From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
Christian Didier (11 February 1944 – 14 May 2015) came to public attention after 8 June 1993 as the assassin of René Bousquet, a friend of French President François Mitterrand, who had served as a senior police official under Vichy France, which administered the southern half of France during the German occupation.[1][2][3] Directly after the killing, Didier telephoned a succession of newspaper editors in order to organise an ad hoc press conference, meaning that the police had no difficulty in locating him.[4]
In 2013, Didier unsuccessfully sued an author for defamation after the author, in a biographical book on Bousquet, described Didier as "fou" ("crazy", "mad").[5]