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Forty years after the little boy’s unexplained death, his father, Jean-Marie Villemin, signs the preface to a graphic novel to be published Thursday October 3. “Libération”, which previewed the work, reveals its creation with screenwriter Pat Perna.
In the office bathed in light, the preface overlooks a pile of leaves. It is placed on the latest version of the comic book before printing. And it begins like this: “Total annihilation. This is what Christine and I feel after the assassination of our little Grégory, on October 16, 1984. A crow whose identity we still do not know killed our son to “make me die of grief”.” In the kitchen, around ten jars of jam are neatly lined up. Last night, at 4 a.m., Pat Perna – born Patrice Perna, fifty-eight years ago – couldn’t sleep a wink. So he got up and cast a spell on the 3 kilos of plums given by the neighbor. Sometimes, the jitters bake in the sugar and the anxieties melt away with the fruit. Since information leaked in early September about the upcoming publication of the graphic novel Gregory (1), written with Jean-Marie Villemin, his phone never stops ringing. The journalists are laying siege. It must be said that the event is twofold. The little boy’s father – who had not spoken for three decades – signed the preface. The mystery, undoubtedly the most famous of the criminal annals, will reach forty years of age.
However, the cast of the comic strip is level with the walls. Jean-Marie Villemin has warned: he will not meet
