In 1968, Alain Delon’s former bodyguard Stevan Markovic was found dead, a bullet in his head, wrapped in plastic, wearing the actor’s clothes. The scandal took France by storm, with Delon questioned by police and his friend, gangster François Marcantoni, spending a year in prison charged with the killing before he was released and the case dropped. "Murder In Paris '68: A True Story of Death and Glamour” attempts to uncover what really happened. RFI spoke to its author, Edward Chisholm.
Unfolding amidst the glamour of 1960s Paris and Delon’s starring role in it, the Markovic Affair exposed the city’s underbelly. But with bank robbers splashed across the front pages alongside film stars, and the biggest star of all, Delon, mixing with gangsters, were these two worlds as disparate as they appeared?
