Jean-Pierre Hernandez (31 May 1935 – 25 October 2024) was a French gangster and writer.[1] A onetime caïd of the French Connection, he was imprisoned and lived in hiding for 13 years.[2][3]
Jean-Pierre Hernandez | |
|---|---|
| Born | 31 May 1935 |
| Died | 25 October 2024 (aged 89) |
| Nationality | French |
| Occupation(s) | Gangster Writer |
| Children | 3 |
Biography
editBorn in Carpentras on 31 May 1935, Hernandez was raised by a Corsican mother. He began working as a buyer for his first wife's father and made contacts in organized crime. These contacts led him to the French Connection, where he participated between 1960 and 1990. He was heavily involved in heroin trafficking with Tany Zampa, one of the godfathers of Jean-Louis Fargette.[4] He was eventually arrested alongside 30 other people and sentenced to a light five-year sentence due to a lack of substantiative evidence. However, he managed to escape from prison and lived in hiding for 13 years between France and Germany.[5] In his 2011 book Confessions d'un caïd, he revealed that Maurice Agnelet was wrongfully convicted in the disappearance of Agnès Le Roux. He wrote that one of his fellow gangsters, Jeannot Lucchesi, had confessed to him in the 1980s to killing Le Roux and dumping her body in Les Goudes.[6]
Hernandez died on 25 October 2024, at the age of 89.[7]
Publications
edit- Confessions d'un caïd (2011)
- Quand j’étais gangster (2014)
References
edit- ^ "Hernandez, Jean-Pierre (1935-....)". Bibliothèque nationale de France (in French).
- ^ Lavie, Jules (29 November 2014). "La French connection racontée par l'ancien gangster Jean-Pierre Hernandez". France Info (in French). Retrieved 25 October 2024.
- ^ "Mémoire d'un caid, le livre confession de Jean-Pierre Hernandez". France Info (in French). 10 December 2012. Retrieved 25 October 2024.
- ^ "Jean-Pierre Hernandez". Babelio (in French).
- ^ Aridj, Jamila (24 November 2014). "Même les voyous vieillissent". Le Point (in French). Retrieved 25 October 2024.
- ^ "Meurtre d'Agnès Le Roux : les révélations d'un ancien truand". Le Parisien (in French). 4 March 2011. Retrieved 25 October 2024.
- ^ "Pierrot Hernandez, dernier survivant de la French Connection, s'est éteint en Béarn". La République des Pyrénées (in French). 25 October 2024. Retrieved 25 October 2024.