Perpetrator
Marcel Petiot
- Born
- 17 January 1897
- Died
- 25 May 1946, aged about 49
- Record
- Wikidata Q706812 · Wikipedia
Perpetrator in The Rue Le Sueur Murders
Paris doctor who ran a fake escape route as 'Doctor Eugène'; convicted of multiple murders and guillotined.
1942–1946 · 21 rue Le Sueur, Paris · Executed
In occupied Paris a doctor sold a secret route to safety for 25,000 francs a head. In March 1944 smoke from his chimney showed where his clients had gone. Read the case.
Dated events
Marcel Petiot is born in Auxerre, Burgundy.
Petiot is elected mayor of Villeneuve-sur-Yonne; he is removed from office in 1931.
Petiot acquires the townhouse at 21 rue Le Sueur and has the courtyard walls raised.
The Gestapo, believing the network to be a Resistance escape line, arrests Petiot and his intermediaries.
Petiot is released from Fresnes prison.
Petiot, serving as 'Captain Valéry' in the French Forces of the Interior, is arrested at Saint-Mandé–Tourelle métro station.
Petiot is convicted of murder and sentenced to death.
Petiot is guillotined in the courtyard of La Santé prison.