1. Pierre Bonny was once praised as one of the most talented police officers in the country, and helped to solve the notorious Stavisky financial scandal in 1934.
12 Facts About Pierre Bonny
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Pierre Bonny was executed by firing squad on 27 December 1944, alongside career criminal Henri Lafont and footballer-turned-crook Alexandre Villaplane.
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Pierre Bonny was born on 25 January 1895, in Bordeaux, France.
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Pierre Bonny remained imprisoned for the majority of the war.
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In 1919, Pierre Bonny took the police exam and became an inspector in the provisional police force that was operating in liberated regions.
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Pierre Bonny married Blanche Emie in 1920, and worked in Somme, France, before being transferred to the oversight unit of the Surete generale's forensic investigation services in Paris on August 11,1922.
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Pierre Bonny spent the rest of his career there, working under divisional commissioners Vidal, Granger, and then Hennet until his termination in January, 1935.
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Maurice Garcon believes they took place before Pierre Bonny entered the police force, but Jacques Pierre Bonny, drawing from an anonymous article in the magazine Le Nouveau Detective in the early 1930s, places these events in the early 1920s.
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In January 1923, Pierre Bonny obtained the grade of trainee inspector at the Surete generale.
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Pierre Bonny did not discover the famous typewriter, one of the key pieces of evidence in the Seznec Affair, but did transport the typewriter to Paris for examination as part of the investigation.
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Joseph Marie Guillaume Seznec's post-war defense, based on late testimony, has Pierre Bonny orchestrating the conspiracy and the author of allegedly false witness statements against Seznec.
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Tenured in September 1924, Pierre Bonny quickly acquired "a reputation as a skilled and shrewd policeman" according to Philippe Aziz.