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    <product_content><![CDATA[We are pleased to invite you to a Literary Café featuring Gérard Demory, former magistrate, for an morning of discussion and reflection around literature, justice, and society. Coffee, tea and croissants included! Mr. Demory will share his insights and engage in an open conversation with the audience, followed by a discussion and informal exchange over coffee.📅 Date: Friday, Feb 27🕰 Time: 10am Pour en savoir plus... Je me présente, Gérard Demory. Je suis retraité de la magistrature depuis 2011,et parmi mes activités musicales et divers bénévolats j’écris en me remémorant des affaires qui m’ont marqué durant ma carrière. Mon aventure d’auteur a commencé en avril 2023 avec la parution de mon premier roman “Mortelle Emprise”. Puis ont suivi « Cité Berthe 1997 », « Suspects sur écoutes »... tous mes livres prenant place dans notre belle Provence mais débordent parfois vers l’Afrique, l’Espagne... Mon quatrième roman, « Var, Chroniques mafieuses » devrait paraître fin mars-début avril2026 . Un cinquième est en cours d’écriture...Dans mes romans je fais place à l’imaginaire, la fiction et met en avant notre système judiciaire, les contraintes d’une enquête, enquête souvent éloignée de ce que nous pouvons voir dans les films ou feuilletons télévisés. Je m’attache aussi à décrire l’environnement social, économique, parfois politique, de l’intrigue., car la délinquance et la criminalité ne naissent pas de l’abstrait... A travers mes personnages imaginaires, le duo atypique du capitaine Brou dit le lézard et Sadelli, qui mène l’enquête: suspense réaliste, intrigue, tensions soupçons mais aussi des notes d’humour, de nostalgie, d’histoire, de sport. Dans mon dernier roman paru (« Suspects sur écoutes ») je fais intervenir de nouveaux acteurs, les gendarmes. 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Espionnages filatures, tensions... et tout cela sous le ciel bleu de la Provence et le chant des cigales! Les livres de Gérard Demory: brefs résumés des livresMORTELLE EMPRISELe suicide était évident. Tout du passé d’Isabelle Freund poussait tant le capitaine Sadelli que le procureur de la République à cette conclusion. Pourtant cette thèse allait être contestée par la famille d’Isabelle, ce qui conduisit à la désignation d’un juge d’instruction. Ainsi le capitaine de police Brou, dit Le Lézard, fut chargé des investigations. Son enquête mit rapidement en lumière le lourd contexte familial, avec un divorce en cours, des violences et du harcèlement. Voilà pourquoi, peu à peu, les différents témoignages, indices récoltés et constatations matérielles mirent en doute la conclusion initiale. Et une autre histoire vit le jour. Certains soutiennent que, comme en Suisse, en France « la moitié des homicides ne seraient pas détectés et passeraient pour des morts naturelles », des suicides ou des accidents... CITE BERTHE 1997 LES TRAQUÉS DU TRAFICQui était cet homme retrouvé très gravement blessé le 17 juillet 1997 au pied de la tour Fructidor A7, cité Berthe à La Seyne, d’où il avait chuté ? Le capitaine Sadelli, affecté dans la région depuis le mois de janvier, se voit confier l’enquête par le responsable du service, le capitaine Brou, alias le Lézard. Au fil des investigations, il découvre les séquelles humaines et sociales de la fermeture des chantiers navals intervenue dix ans plus tôt. Entre La Seyne, Marseille et Toulon, beaucoup survivent désormais d’arnaques, de deals et de petits trafics, alimentés et contrôlés par une criminalité organisée. Une affaire symptomatique d’une époque où la petite délinquance de quartier va croiser la grande, nettement plus puissante, et ce ne sera pas sans quelques tensions... SUSPECTS SUR ÉCOUTESInvestiguant sur des cambriolages commis dans l’Ouest varois, les gendarmes avaient placé sous surveillance un certain nombre de cabines téléphoniques. Rapidement, plusieurs conversations interceptées posèrent question : cambriolages ou plutôt trafics de machines à sous, voire trafics de stupéfiants ? Dans une actualité varoise et régionale jonchée de règlements de comptes sanglants, une nouvelle enquête débute, avec ses écoutes, ses planques et ses filatures, ponctuée de rendez- vous de Hyères à Aix-en-Provence, de La Londe à Gardanne, de Saint-Cyr à Bandol et Toulon ; de voyages en Espagne, au Maroc, au Bénin, avec commandes, livraisons, bateaux, camions, voitures, etc. ; et des individus plus ou moins identifiés au passé pénal affirmé, ou parfois inconnus. 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