Henri Lafont was a petty criminal who became the most powerful crook in Paris thanks to the Nazi occupation of France. A chance encounter in a prison camp led to a life of luxury running a ruthless mob of gangsters who looted the city on behalf of the Nazis who recognised Lafonts talent for treachery and deceit. Lafont recruited the French Gestapo, a motley band of sadistic grotesques that included faded celebrities, ex-footballers, pimps, murderers, burglars and bank robbers.
Henri Lafont was a petty criminal who became themost powerful crook in Paris thanks to the Nazioccupation of France. A chance encounter in a prisoncamp led to a life of luxury running a ruthless mobof gangsters who looted the city on behalf of theNazis, who recognised Lafont's talent for treacheryand deceit. Lafont recruited 'the French Gestapo',a motley band of sadistic grotesques that includedfaded celebrities, ex-footballers, pimps, murderers,burglars and bank robbers.
They wore the best clothes, ate at the best restaurantsand did whatever they pleased. They lived on theexclusive rue Lauriston, where they mixed withcelebrities and Nazi officers, while down in thecellar of their building, the rest of the gang torturedresistance prisoners.
The unbalanced 'Crazy Pete' did it for information.Bisexual athlete Violette Morris, with her short hairand men's clothes and love of frail blondes, justliked to watch people in pain.
By 1944, the gang ran a paramilitary outfit ofAlgerians and Moroccan nationalists in the southof France, raping, robbing and murdering thelocals under the cover of fighting the resistance.Then the Allies came, and a terrible price hadto be paid.
