In the archives of the “Obs”
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“There is no employers’ militia” at Renault, assured its CEO, Pierre Dreyfus, at the trial in January 1973 of one of his employees: Jean-Antoine Tramoni had shot dead a young Maoist, Pierre Overney, during a demonstration in front of the factory of Boulogne-Billancourt. “The shot went off on its own”claimed the former non-commissioned officer, accustomed to the handling of weapons – he always carried one at Renault – and who, to justify not having put the safety catch, declared: “When we go to war, if we put the safety catch…”
Overney’s death, a year earlier, provoked a lot of reactions. The funeral of the activist of the Proletarian Left, in March 1972, gathered 200,000 people, including Jean-Paul Sartre and Michel Foucault.
The trial, recounted in the article below, dismisses the thesis of self-defense. Tramoni was sentenced to four years in prison (he had served 8 months after the murder), and in October 1974 he was released on parole. On March 23, 1977, Jean-Antoine Tramoni was murdered by two killers a motorcycle. The crime is claimed by the NAPAP (Armed Cores for Popular Autonomy). The killers will never be found.
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