Joëlle Aubron: The Bourgeois Killer of Action Directe
On a cold November night in 1986, Renault CEO Georges Besse was gunned down outside his Paris home. One of the shooters who finished him off was Joëlle Aubron — a privileged young woman from Neuilly-sur-Seine who abandoned her comfortable life for the radical underground of Action Directe.
In this episode, Alexander Lawson traces Aubron’s path from bourgeois upbringing to far-left terrorism, the assassinations of General René Audran and Georges Besse, her dramatic arrest in 1987, life sentences, and her unrepentant final years.
A story of ideology, violence, and a woman who never said sorry.
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