30 years ago, to the day, on January 9, 1993, Jean-Claude Romand, 38, murdered his wife, his two children and his parents after 20 years of making his relatives believe that he was a doctor. Back to this affair which froze France.
The weight of lies. In the single day of January 9, 1993Jean-Claude Romand, 38, decides to commit the irreparable to five members of his family. In cold blood, in his house in Prévessin (Ain), he first took the life of his wife, Florence, with a rolling pin. Then, he goes to the bedroom of his two children, Caroline, 7, and Antoine, 5, to shoot them. with a rifle. After his crimes, the father of the family decides to quietly tidy up the family home before going to his parents. For the latter, he decided to reserve the same fate in killing them from behind with a gun. Returning home, he doused his house with gasoline, set it on fire, but was saved in extremis by firefighters.
This fivefold homicide, Jean-Claude Romand decided to carry it out while his lie of a lifetime was about to be revealed. Indeed, after having re-enrolled twelve times in the second year of medicine, he decided to make his entourage believe that he had really obtained his diploma. He then invents himself as a doctorbut also researcher at INSERM then at WHO, spending his days learning about the subject to flesh out his imagined profession. In order to refine his character, he also extorted money to his relatives, in order to simulate a salary and sold fake drugs against cancer. A masquerade that ended up being discovered at the end of 1992 by his friends.
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Jean-Claude Romand, a man now free
Sentenced to life for the fivefold murder of his family, the “false doctor Romand” is released from jail in April 2019 and was placed under electronic surveillance for a probationary period of two years which therefore ended in 2021. Questioned at the time by our colleagues from RTL, Emmanuel Crolet, lformer brother-in-law of Jean-Claude Romand, let it be known that he did not envisage no legal proceedings against the murderer of his sister, his niece and his nephew, nevertheless lamenting that this “is no longer possible”, because the latter would have “won” according to him. He also said he was “disappointed that forgiveness is given to him by granting him this conditional release”, and to conclude: “We are shocked and I am very tired.”