Essais Documents La disparue de San Juan

THE MISSING WOMAN OF SAN JUAN, Argentina October 1976 Philippe Broussard February 2011, 442 pages Film rights under optionRights sold to: Argentina (Planeta)Marie-Anne Erize was 24 with the body of a model and the utopian dreams of rebel. One October day in 1976, soldiers in civilian clothes abducted her in San Juan, a small town in north western Argentina. Her parents, friends and six brothers and sisters were never to see her again. She is now one of the 30,000 people who went missing during the dictatorship whose memory still haunts this country that has such a heavy burden to remember.It hardly matters that this story goes back more than thirty years. Philippe Broussard wanted to tell it. To find witnesses. To reconstruct what happened to her. From Paris to Buenos Aires he questioned dozens of people and tried to assemble the puzzle of her life. Or rather, of her lives. Born to a family of French "pioneers" who had settled in Argentina, she grew up in the jungle, went to several catholic schools, worked as a top model, rubbed shoulders with major artists (the singer Georges Moustaki, the guitarist Paco de Lucia...) and lived for a while in Paris. Her destiny changed irreversibly in 1973 when she turned her back on the fashion world, seeing it as too superficial. She was a militant supporter of Peron and undertook welfare work in shanty towns, gradually becoming involved with covert operations for Montonero, a guerilla with far-left tendencies. This trajectory, against a background of extreme violence, would come to an end in San Juan, one Friday in 1976...Yet the story does not end there. There are two legal processes open to this day, one in France and one in Argentina, trying to find the truth about her fate. There is even a suspect in prison in San Juan: Jorge Olivera, a colonel turned barrister, a Catholic fundamentalist and an extreme-right militant. He is supposed to have organised the abduction and the disappearance of this beautiful Frenchwoman.The book's structure alternates between a chronological account of Marie-Anne's movements and the author's letters to her mother, now 84, informing her of his research and revealing her daughter's darker side.Philippe Broussard is editor in chief of the Investigative department of L'Express. A former special correspondent for Le Monde (1989 - 2005), he was awarded the Albert Londres prize in 1993. He has written several works published by Stock, including La Prisonnière de Lhassa (2001).

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