This evening at 9:10 p.m., RMC Découverte offers to rediscover a chilling number from Bring in the accused dedicated to Jean-Baptiste Rambla, entitled A crime for inheritance. A dive into the tragic destiny of a man whose life was shaped by a childhood tragedy: the murder of his sister Maria-Dolorès in 1974, an event which irremediably marked his existence.
A founding drama: the murder of Maria-Dolorès Rambla
Jean-Baptiste Rambla, then only six years old, helplessly witnesses the kidnapping of his sister Maria-Dolorès in Marseille. This eight-year-old girl will become one of the most emblematic victims in French criminal history, murdered by Christian Ranucci. The latter, convicted and executed in 1976, was one of the last guillotined in France. This abominable crime deeply traumatized Jean-Baptiste and his family, a pain that has never lessened.
A tragic legacy turned into violence
As an adult, the weight of this tragedy leads Jean-Baptiste Rambla down a murderous path. In 2004, in Marseille, he killed his boss, Corinne Beidl, before doing it again ten years later, in 2017, in Toulouse, by murdering Cintia Lunimbu, a young woman chosen at random. At each of his trials, Rambla returns to the central role of his sister's murder in his change, also attacking Gilles Perrault, author of the book The red sweaterwhich had fueled the controversies over the guilt of Christian Ranucci.
A broken childhood at the heart of legal debates
Through this documentary, Bring in the accused explores the psychological and legal twists and turns of this affair. The show looks back at the way in which Jean-Baptiste Rambla, frozen in his past, tried to justify his actions by accusing his father, Christian Ranucci and Gilles Perrault in turn. The judges, for their part, ruled: Rambla remains solely responsible for his crimes.
A captivating and disturbing show
Carried by precise narration and poignant archives, this issue of Bring in the accused asks: to what extent can trauma justify the irreparable? Between compassion for the broken child and incomprehension towards the man who became a murderer, the documentary offers a complex and chilling portrait of an extraordinary destiny.
