"She knew a lot more things than she said", confided Marie Jaoul de Poncheville about her friend Marie-France Pisier. In its edition of February 18, 2021, The Obs traces the tragic fate of a cinema icon whose death remains a mystery today. Suicide? Murder? Accident ? Ten years after finding her body trapped between the bars of a chair at the bottom of her swimming pool, investigators still cannot confirm the cause of Marie-France Pisier's death. Worse still, it could be that the release of the book La Familia Grande, written by Camille Kouchner last January, relaunches the debate. In this two-hundred-eight-page book, Bernard Kouchner's daughter accuses Olivier Duhamel, Evelyne Pisier's ex-husband, of having raped one of her brothers. She also evokes the silence of members of her family, many of whom are aware … The silence of all but one, Marie-France Pisier, who did everything to "bring down" her sister's husband.
Investigation report removes suicide thesis
"When the firefighters take out the actress's body, they discover her eyeglasses, her jewelry, her iPhone", can we read in the magazine. Indeed, this morning of April 24, 2011, her husband, Thierry funck-brentano, first cousin of Olivier Duhamel, discovers his wife at the bottom of the water, inert, dressed exactly as he had left her before going up to her room the day before. On his body, no trace of bruises or scratches, only bruises related to cardiac massage. As described in the preliminary survey carried out in 2011, that The Obs could consult, the template of Marie-France Pisier would have easily enabled him to free himself from this wrought iron chair. So what really happened? The font notes a size element: the family dog did not bark that night. However, with reconstruction in support, at the slightest gesture or falling object, the dog barks. That night, nothing.
As for the autopsy, the examinations are not more convincing. "She also did not formally drown. Only a small amount of water is found in his lungs", can we read in the columns of The Obs.
"Marie-France Pisier hated suicide"
As our colleagues from The Obs, Marie-France Pisier had already experienced the pain of suicide in her family. Two suicides, actually. And for good reason, the actress' mother killed herself by swallowing a large dose of medicine in the middle of the night. It was she herself who had found her lying inert on the ground. Two years later, it's his father, Georges Pisier, who commits suicide. "Marie-France Pisier hated suicide", had entrusted his psychoanalyst to the investigators, who never believed in suicide. Moreover, a few days after the death of Marie-France Pisier, many personalities of the cinema, like André Téchiné, had also expressed themselves: "I don't believe for a single second that this is suicide", he had confided about his friend. If the actress did not kill herself, then who could have wanted to harm her?
While all the witnesses evoke a "old angry" between her and her sister Evelyne, it will be necessary to wait until September 29, 2011, the date of the hearing of Marie Jaoul de Poncheville, for the investigators to be made aware of the heavy secret that Marie-France Pisier kept. Indeed, "Victor" Kouchner had confided to his aunt to have been raped by his stepfather Olivier Duhamel a few years earlier. An unbearable confidence that had pushed her to do everything to make this story explode … in vain. "She was desperate to be the only one who wanted this story told. The only one who wants "Victor" to file a complaint. She suffered from the indifference of her relatives", confides Marie Jaoul de Poncheville to The Obs, before concluding : "She knew a lot more things than she said …"
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