NARRATIVE – This high-powered Honda had been stolen and disguised to execute the judge along Boulevard Michelet in Marseille in October 1981. Seized 48 hours after the incident for the investigation, it ended up in the garages of the Aix-en-Provence courthouse.
The Figaro Marseille
Its inline four-cylinder engine made it more suited to a career on the track than in organized crime. However, it never reached the finish line, ending its race in a box in the Aix-en-Provence courthouse after being hijacked by a criminal organization pursuing Judge Pierre Michel. More than 40 years after the magistrate’s death, the racing car was definitively taken out of competition by the courts.
As stated in Figaro by the Aix-en-Provence public prosecutor’s office, which confirms information revealed by our colleagues at Provence this Honda CB 900 F Bol d’Or with red and blue fairings was destroyed last week by the court’s judicial services. “Its retention was not procedurally justified”added the public prosecutor, without however explaining why the motorcycle had been sitting for so long in the garages of the courthouse, out of sight.
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