Guy Georges in his bedroom in the Saint-Sauveur squat, April, 1995
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Things also became heated in terms of our investigation. The presidential elections resulted in Jacques Chirac's victory, the candidate for the RPR. Match had published ten pages of my photographs showing what the newly elected president calls the social fracture. Mehdi and I were assigned to a new mission for the magazine: showing the presence of firearms in the suburbs. "And if they don't exist, we'll have to make sure we find some," Mehdi clarified.To me, making up stuff is out of the question, and so I refused the offer. We were in my car when I informed him about the end of our collaboration. Mehdi asked me to step out. I then realised that Guy was comfortably settled in the back seat. "You are going to work for us," he said. "You are going to do what we will tell you, otherwise we are going to rape your wife and spray your kids with acid.""You are going to work for us," he said. "You are going to do what we will tell you, otherwise we are going to rape your wife and spray your kids with acid." It was the beginning of my open-air kidnapping that lasted two months.
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