In 1977, an event captured the attention of all of Quebec: the kidnapping of a credit officer from a credit union named Charles Marion. Decades later, his son, Pierre Marion, published a book that sheds new light on this case.
In the book 82 days: the Charles Marion casethe author relates the events from the point of view of the family.
A new version of the facts was essential in the eyes of the Marion family because not only did they go through an ordeal, not knowing where the father was, but also because Pierre Marion was suspected by the SQ of being in cahoots with the faded away.
“It was heartbreaking because they didn’t say ‘Maybe you’re responsible or involved in this’, they said to me ‘We are 100% convinced that it is you who have it all. organized that,” said Pierre Marion in an interview with Denis Lévesque.
A detailed description of the events
In his book, Pierre Marion reveals the conditions under which his father had been kept prisoner by kidnappers who often communicated with the police through the media.
He also explains the unfolding of the police investigation filled with twists and turns which finally made it possible to get their hands on one of the kidnappers almost by chance.
The author also looks back on the turning point in his father’s life once he was freed by his captors.
In this regard, he claimed that his father was “more and more focused on himself (…) more and more solitary”. Suffering in particular from bipolarity and kidney problems, Charles Marion ended up putting an end to his life.
Reference-www.journaldemontreal.com