Raymond Mertz

Raymond Mertz is a police superintendent; he is the former chief of the Repression brigade of the banditism (BRB) to the Police headquarter and will be then promoted sub-manager of the Parisian Judicial police.

Police bur

In the years 1980, the Gang of the postiches makes the headlines of the press. The newspapers rent the audacity and the relative kindness of these hold-up men disguised as gentlemen. Aggravated by about thirty successful steerings, the authorities organize the capture of the criminals. The January 14th 1986, the gang is located in the agency of the Crédit Lyonnais of 39 rue du Docteur-Blanche in Paris. The police plan is installed around the bank, in an effort united between BIS and BRB, to take in spinning mill the cars in order to carry out the arrest outside the centres of dense population. Whereas a first group of hold-up men already left, the situation skids, the Mertz Police chief, person in charge of the men of the BRB, in a blow of missed glare, starts a shooting which will lead to dead of a hold-up man and a police officer, Jean Vrindts. The journalist of Release , Patricia Tourancheau, author of the work the Postiches, a gang of the Eighties , summarily explains that during the operation, " it is the chief of the BRB Raymond Mertz which pète leads and which draws the first. Against its clean consignes." This fiasco will give an outline of the businesses and competitions within the 36 quai des Orfèvres. It is however true that during the interview given within the framework of the television programme Faites to enter the defendant of the February 20th 2005, Mertz recognized that it had left in first of his car to open fire and marked: " it is me which left the first of the car, and if a fault were made I am ready in particular with subir". However, the Mertz police chief will be covered and even promoted, without never being officially worried.

Representation with the cinema

In its film 36 Quai des goldsmiths , the former police officer, actor and realizer Olivier Marchal is inspired partly by these facts and in particular role of Raymond Mertz like inspiration of Denis Klein, chief of the BRB, played by Gerard Depardieu, even if it never quotes the names of the people really implied in these facts.

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