The Lion d'Or Murder Case
This documentary about the "Golden Lion" crime, which took place in 1925, retraces and analyzes a case that captivated public opinion in Lille and whose many twists and turns kept the police and investigating magistrates on tenterhooks for over ten years.
Directed by Hervé Colombani.
With:
Hélène Duffuler-Vialle, Senior Lecturer in Legal History, University of Artois, CDEP EA 2471, CHJ UMR 8025, Coordinator of the ANR HLJPGenre project;
Sébastien Landrieux, PhD candidate in Contemporary History, University of Lille-IRHIS (UMR 8529);
Jeanne Barnicaud, PhD candidate in Contemporary History, University of Paris 1 Panthéon-Sorbonne, Center for 19th-Century History.
An article related to the documentary:
Jeanne Barnicaud, Hélène Duffuler-Vialle, and Sébastien Landrieux, “A Documentary on the ‘Golden Lion’ Crime: Interdisciplinary Perspectives on the Valorization of a Sensitive Judicial Heritage,” in Marc Renneville and Sophie Victorien (eds.), “Dark Heritage, Dark Heritage: Memories and Histories of Justice,” Criminocorpus, 2024. URL: http://journals.openedition.org/crimi...