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During the occupation, a doctor named Petiot treated during the day and killed at night. It was during the day of March 11, 1944, that residents of the 16th arrondissement alerted the firefighters. For several days, an unbearable smell had been coming from the chimney of the mansion located at 21 rue Le Sueur. Its owner, Dr. Petiot, was absent. The firefighters, by breaking the window, discovered in the cellar bodies cut up or still burned, some of them still in the boiler. Twenty-seven bodies were finally identified. Most of the victims were Jews who were trying to flee the Gestapo and a few crooks. Was Dr. Petiot mad? Did he kill for ideology or for profit? In occupied France, the hunt for the criminal was followed day by day. Dr. Marcel Petiot fled the same day the bodies were discovered. Hidden under a false identity among the French Forces of the Interior (FFI), he was finally arrested on October 31, 1944, seven months after the discovery of the bodies. #cultureprime #archives #AffairePetiot _____________ Other archives from the last century to listen to here: • In search of lost voices Follow France Culture on: Facebook: / franceculture Twitter: / franceculture Instagram: / franceculture