Richard Bros was a bisexual male model who was also involved in the first murderous wave of the FLQ separatist terrorist organization which started in 1963.
He got into various police troubles and moved to London and was found hanged in a jail cell under mysterious circumstances in November 1970.
He had been brought in on a vague noise disturbance.
Some suspect that his arrest and death was a set up.
Bros, like the early FLQ leader Mario Bachard, who was mysteriously murdered in Paris, combine to make for a mystery. Did the RCMP, along with other police anti-terrorist organizations have FLQ operatives assassinated?
Bros had a troubled past. His father was incensed after he was busted for heroin smuggling. He managed to make a career as a male model, making the front of the Paris Match.
And he was actively gay and got in trouble for that. Here is a roughly translated letter the
shadowy Bros wrote three years prior to his death. It's to a fellow French native who lives in still lives in Montreal. She happened to be his waitress in London. She commented on his fleur-de-lys bracelet and they became fast friends.
13 June 1967,
63 Onelow Gardens
London SW7
I believe you'll be happy to read this letter. I just received your letter and I admit that I was somewhat surprised. I didn't understand your letter one bit.I reacted badly towards you. I'm quite ashamed. I left you without news and I had no right to that because you were very nice with me. You tried to help me a lot without even knowing me well. I can't explain why I didn't stay in touch but I want to expalin to you right now.I went to your place two months after but your janitor told me that you had moved. Last week I went to the restaurant where you worked and I saw your manager and he told me that you had left to Madrid. It would be easy for you to check this sort of thing, because as I see, you have a gift of finding people. I admit that just a few moments ago I would never have believed a word because it seems unlikely. I don't believe in lying because I don't see where that would lead me. I don't consider myself an angel but I odn't think I'e become that bad yet.
I know you have suffered and I understand. And to take off like I did, I suffered too afterwards because I don't like that, in spite of what you think, you might think I like to hurt people. Anyway I hope that this will do you well to read these lines, I'd like to convince you that I couldn't hurt you. You know that I lost my mother three months back. My mom was the most marvelous person and
lost her and nobody could replace her..
You're lucky to be in Montreal now with Expo, there must be an amazing atmosphere there.
I'd like you to tell me how you got my address. It bugs me a lot because it's pretty serious. Very few have it. Anyway I'd like you to tell me how you managed that.
I leave you now hoping that this letter sheds a bit more light. I leave you with a nice conclusion, always be careful with the people you meet.
I wish you happiness because you deserve it. As for me, I will try, if you visit Montreal sometime we'll meet very soon, I think.
Give me your news. That would make me very happy.
I hope you forgive me for everything.
Richard Bros
Richard Bros was not bisexual at all. On the contrary, he was very successful with ladies. A kind of modern Casanova, hippie way.
ReplyDeleteWell I'm basing this on the testimony of one of his close friends, a woman who hung out with him at the time. She is from France but moved to Quebec although she never felt very at home here. Anyway back in the day she was in Paris and noticed this guy with an FLQ bracelet, he was a waiter, and she became friends with him. He sent her those letters. He moved to London. She says that she found the conditions around his death a little suspicious. I promised to return those letters to her but never have done so. I feel bad about it as I've sorta lost touch with her.
ReplyDeleteDo you know if she is the lady living with him in London in 1969 ?
ReplyDeleteWe use (him, me, and some guys from Montreal) to attend a discotheque whose name was "The Bataclan" and as I said, girls were around him like bees. Richard's "wife" was manager of a restaurant on Queenway, near Hyde Park.
she was not, I have interviewed both. I have not come across any evidence that Richard Bros was in any way bisexuality, quite the contrary. I would like those who say he was, like the person whose blog this is, give his evidence.
DeleteRichard married Françoise Peter's in 1967, I have a copy of the marriage certificate. You can remove the quotation markes from "wife". I interviewed her several times in Richard's birthplace, Sommières, Gard,France and in Lille. Those interested in Richard's case and how he came to die can consult my blog, laststopparis.net, where I have begun to write a series of posts about him. You know, posts bases on archival and interview evidence, as apart from unsorced rumors, false newspaper accounts and blog posts and innuendo.Any further questions can be presented on laststopparis.net and I will address them.
DeleteMichael Mcloughlin