It has now been 45 years since singer Claude François died. The domestic accident in his bathtub happened on March 11, 1978.
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Icon of French song, his name and his legend continue to fascinate the French public. In the show of 20h30 of France 2, broadcast on February 25, the dresser of Claude François, Sylvie Mathurin, recounted an incredible episode in the life of the singer which she attended and in which he escaped gangsters during a chase. This incredible story takes place in 1977, Claude François had just done a shoot with Michel Sardou and returned by car, accompanied by Sylvie Mathurin and other passengers, as well as several plants. He drives on the highway and overtakes a “gangster” car which ends up overtaking him and arriving at his level, looking malicious. ” This motorist made him a fishtail. Claude did not like it. He repeated it, the other repeated it. We felt it was an unhealthy game remembers the singer’s dresser ».
More fear than harm…
Finally, the two cars took their distance and Claude François thought he was done with this little incident. Only, said gangster car was waiting for the singer and his passengers at the highway exit and the gangsters were armed. Bullets began to rain on the car, Sylvie Mathurin remembers the attitude of the interpreter of the Monday in the sun : « I saw his jaws clench, contract. They were shaking “. Finally, more fear than harm. Coming out of the car, Claude François’ first instinct was to check that the plants he was transporting in the car had nothing in them.
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