In front of the entrance to the squat on Rue Saint-Sauveur, June 1995
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 called 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 realized 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.
A night in the Saint-Sauveur squat, April 1995
Guy Georges in front of the squat in Rue Saint- Sauveur, Paris, May 1995
Guy, partly involved with the left-wing DAL, in front of a poster of the right-wing candidate and future president Jacques Chirac, Paris, May 1995
The "Marseillais," a close friend of Guy, in the staircase of the squat in Rue Didot, Paris, November 1994
In the Rue Saint-Sauveur squat, a close acquaintance of Guy poses in his room with a portrait of notorious criminal Jacques Mesrine shot down, May 1995