The book is republished with previously unpublished interviews with witnesses to the accident: Didier Lavergne, Ludovic Paris, and Jean-Marie Marion, who followed the trio within a few minutes. But also from the Guardian of the Peace, Sébastien
The transcription of these testimonies already appeared in the original edition of the book, published in 2006.
However, technological progress made since this first publication now makes it possible to hear these testimonies in the digital version of the book. In 2006, many doubted the claims and statements published in the text: now we can hear the voices of those who uttered them, collected by Jean Depussé.
It’s up to you to judge, on the basis of these testimonies, whether it was an accident… accidental?
Extract from Sébastien X’s declaration, collected in the interview that Jean Depussé gave him on March 15, 2003.
“As long as the Coluche accident has not happened, for me it is fiction, It began to take on dramatic proportions the day Coluche died: I moved from the problem of fiction to the problem of reality.
I found myself in possession of a file which, two weeks in advance, clearly explained to me what was going to happen, what happened, two weeks later. (…)
As the guy who was No. 2 in the truck was connected by radio to the terminals, the bells, (people who are placed every 2km to announce the passages, the passage times), so at a given moment the truck took place at a specific moment.
As they had already been timed several times passing there at a speed of 120, 130 or 110 kilometers per hour, exceptionally that day, they went to 60 and even at 60 they scratched.
That means that if Coluche scratched at 60, imagine at 120, as he usually scored, and well it’s unstoppable.
The truck getting there, plus it’s a kind of curve, a very, very long curve, so in the end the guys had no reason to brake at all and so the crash was obvious…”
