In the night from the 4 to August 5, 1952, will be held an abominable slaughter, which will become one of the most disconcerting French criminal enigmas of XXe century.
The Dominici business bursts close to a small peaceful village of the Low-Alps (this department will become Alp-of-High-Provence only in 1971) Lurs. A couple of English tourists, Jack and Ann Drummond, accompanied by their 10 year old daughter, Elizabeth, are wildly assassinated.
The following day, the discovery of triple crime is with the One of all the newspapers.
| After a more or less surging investigation, Monday November 16, 1953, Périès judge carries out the reconstitution of the crime. With the exit of this reconstitution, the judge accuses of triple murder Gaston Dominici (75 years) owner of the farm of Grand' Ground inhabited by a family of farmers. |
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The lawsuit opens in Digne on November 17, 1954. The court of sitted sits during twelve days, the debates will be very agitated. After more than two years of investigations and twelve days of audience, the court of Worthy returns its verdict Sunday November 28, 1954: Gaston Dominici, this old man, is declared guilty triple crime and is condemned to death. |
Display film with Jean Gabin
It is in 1957 that, the president of the Republic Rene Coty commutes the death penalty of Gaston Dominici to penal servitude for life.
| Then three years later, in 1960, General de Gaulle grants his complete grace to him, and it covers freedom. The patriarch of Grand' Ground dies in Digne in 1965, 88 years old. |  |
