King Kong of Nîmes: The Crimes of Maurice Gateaux
On May 16, 1967, inside the sewing workshop of Nîmes Central Prison, a man known as “King Kong” sharpened a pair of scissors… then used them to kill a guard in front of nearly a hundred inmates.
Maurice Gateaux’s path of violence began years earlier in Algeria, continued with a fatal robbery in 1965, and ended with a life sentence that became the longest continuous detention in modern French history—51 years without interruption.
Host Alexander Lawson uncovers the forgotten story of a man whose intellectual disability repeatedly shaped his fate, yet never stopped the bloodshed. Three victims…
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