Dr.+Marcel+Petiot

Marcel Petiot



**Nickname:** The Butcher of Paris; Dr Satan

**Reign of terror:** 1940 - 1944


 * Victims ** : 63 Jews

- Born January 17 1897 in France. Later accounts make various claims of his obnoxious childhood and criminal mentality. Mentally ill and he was expelled from school many times. - Drafted into French infantry in January 1916 during the First World War. In Aisne, he was wounded and gassed and exhibited more symptoms of mental breakdown. He was sent to various rest homes, was arrested for stealing army blankets and was jailed in Orleans.
 * Early Life : **

**Motive:** Financial gain, revenge on society

**Crimes:** Murdered 27 people

**Method:** Attracted Jewish people by giving promise of finding a way out of Germany-> Gave a lethal injection, which he told them it will prevent foreign diseases during travels-> put into a small triangular room with extra thick walls-> watched them die through a small hole in the wall. ->Stored bodies in a quick lime pit and later burned in a furnace.

**Sentence:** Guillotined on 26th may 1946 in the Paris Sante Prison.

**Interesting facts :** Dr Petiot was a **respected doctor** in Paris during the Second World War. ( reason why I picked this guy!*)

1. When Petiot was first questioned for the crime by the police, he told them that the bodies were those of Nazis who had been executed by the French resistance and so they set him free. Then he disappeared for several months. In October 1944 he wrote a letter that denounced him and was finally retraced and arrested. 2. Petiot claimed that 27 people who we murdered were all Germans or traitors and that he was simply being **patriotic**. 3. Petiot graduated into a shady medical practice in Villeneuve-sur-Yonne where he was the resident black market abortionist. 4. He was institutionalized for kleptomania the same year he was appointed an official //médecin d’état-civil//. 5. During WW I while in the Army, 1917, he stole drugs and sold them to addicts.While practicing medicine at Villeneuve he became Mayor of the town. media type="youtube" key="ggoJSng-EQg" width="467" height="385"