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A missed rifle shot that stole his life and left a prince unpunished
A crown prince fires a rifle from a yacht after a missing dinghy; a stray shot kills a sleeping tourist-what did it cost him?
A missed rifle shot that stole his life and left a prince unpunished
In this episode, we tell the story of a late-night shooting off Corsica that began with a missing dinghy and a monarch-in-exile who boarded a stranger's boat armed with a rifle. We follow the decisions, the timeline, and the legal aftermath that stretched across years and jurisdictions, and ask how responsibility was measured.
Person: Vittorio Emanuele di Savoia
Person: Dirk Hamer
Date: 17 August 1978…
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