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Retreat in it human beings on a our doorsteps. | :00:20. | :00:25. | |
Jan Leeming uncovers the mystery of the life and death of a hero of | :00:25. | :00:35. | |
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Battle of Britain. It was an extraordinary story. | :00:46. | :00:56. | |
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This is Rene -- This is Inside Out. Tonight we're at the Battle of | :01:05. | :01:15. | |
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Britain Memorial at Capel-le-Ferne. We are back year later. | :01:17. | :01:23. | |
Human trafficking is a global crime. It is happening here in the UK. Its | :01:23. | :01:30. | |
victims walk among us that a living in the shadows of our communities. | :01:30. | :01:33. | |
We are investigating how traffickers exploit the most | :01:33. | :01:41. | |
vulnerable people in society. The trade in human misery. Our journey | :01:41. | :01:47. | |
will take us to meet the traffickers. We will be looking at | :01:47. | :01:55. | |
how victims are being brought into a region to work as slaves. They | :01:55. | :02:04. | |
are just going to sell me. This is a safe house. The girls who live | :02:04. | :02:08. | |
here have been trafficked into the country to be sexually exploited. | :02:08. | :02:15. | |
It is Flavia's home. She fled her home country desperate to escape | :02:15. | :02:25. | |
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from her uncle who sexually abused But her situation was about to get | :02:45. | :02:55. | |
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worse. She was taken to a house and Flavia joined an underclass of | :03:19. | :03:23. | |
exploited foreign females living in the UK. Mike Emberson runs a | :03:23. | :03:27. | |
charity that is helping her to charity that is helping her to | :03:27. | :03:37. | |
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recover. It is a profoundly evil business. You are degrading them. | :03:43. | :03:53. | |
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There are extra levels of horror. There are threats of murder. People | :03:56. | :03:59. | |
often pay their traffickers to come here in the hope of a better life. | :03:59. | :04:07. | |
Up when they get here at the reality is different. Individuals | :04:07. | :04:15. | |
have been promised jobs in the UK, receptionist, cleaners in a hotel, | :04:15. | :04:25. | |
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even apposition as a model to stop -- even as a model. Then if they | :04:25. | :04:35. | |
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find out they are required to work in a brothel. Superintendent David | :04:37. | :04:47. | |
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Miller. They have been moved about the South of England. There at | :04:49. | :04:54. | |
adverts in the back of the papers. And they are not new girls. The are | :04:54. | :05:01. | |
the same goals being moved around. -- be seen people being moved | :05:01. | :05:10. | |
around. Children are being born into slavery in the UK. In this | :05:10. | :05:20. | |
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safe house babies have been born, conceived as a result of rape. | :05:24. | :05:30. | |
Trafficked women asked to do things that UK sex workers voluntarily | :05:30. | :05:40. | |
would not do. They fill some unpleasant, and say that the gaps | :05:40. | :05:50. | |
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in the market. They have no say in the matter. This treatment puts | :05:54. | :06:04. | |
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Despite the fact this is happening in the UK some experts say we are | :06:18. | :06:24. | |
only just beginning to realise the extent of the problem. There are no | :06:24. | :06:34. | |
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targets for this. If we do not do this we do not understand the scope. | :06:40. | :06:45. | |
We uncovered exploitation been a number of places. This has made us | :06:45. | :06:52. | |
realise how much is out there. the key to take inspiration from | :06:52. | :07:02. | |
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further afield? This is Romania. This is a country that some say is | :07:10. | :07:16. | |
ahead of the game in recognising it has a problem and dealing with it. | :07:16. | :07:25. | |
It has tougher maximum sentences and a dedicated law. This is a | :07:25. | :07:29. | |
prison on the outskirts of Bucharest where some traffickers | :07:29. | :07:33. | |
are taken to serve out their sentences. We have been given | :07:33. | :07:40. | |
special access to speak to some of the prisoners. | :07:40. | :07:44. | |
This man sold girls to the UK and Europe. Why did he start | :07:44. | :07:54. | |
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TRANSLATION: Became from abroad. People with money. They look for a | :08:04. | :08:09. | |
typical girls. Where are the beautiful girls? Romania. Do you | :08:09. | :08:19. | |
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think about what happened to them? I knew how things worked. They took | :08:20. | :08:29. | |
slaves from Romania. They can even kill them. They are bought, taking | :08:29. | :08:39. | |
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it illegally. -- taken illegally. This man is doing time for pimping | :08:43. | :08:53. | |
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trafficked women. TRANSLATION: Many women are not as developed as a | :08:56. | :09:06. | |
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girl of 15. They are told. You cannot tell the age. I was putting | :09:08. | :09:14. | |
them on the market. I was taking them to where there was a crowd. | :09:14. | :09:22. | |
asked to he sold the girls too. he paid he could talk, or not talk, | :09:22. | :09:27. | |
just take her away and straddled her. Do you have the right to buy | :09:27. | :09:36. | |
or sell people? I have to serve 13 years. Did it could be of? Yes. In | :09:36. | :09:41. | |
this country we have harsh laws and well deserved. It put me off. When | :09:41. | :09:51. | |
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I come out I will be the best Romania has been cracking down on | :09:56. | :10:00. | |
traffickers with one of the highest conviction rates in Europe. | :10:00. | :10:05. | |
Campaigners like Mike Emberson from their The Medaille Trust think they | :10:05. | :10:13. | |
could learn a lot. I want to know why we only get eight convictions | :10:13. | :10:19. | |
per year and here they are getting 200 convictions. Is it because | :10:19. | :10:23. | |
there is more trafficking? A I do not think so. I think it is | :10:23. | :10:26. | |
legislation. How would you like to see our legislation improve | :10:26. | :10:32. | |
question mark a single consolidated at would help our prosecution more | :10:32. | :10:40. | |
than the current legislation. It is four different sets of | :10:40. | :10:50. | |
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legislation. They do not mesh This man is head of the anti- | :10:53. | :10:57. | |
trafficking agency. He says having a single piece of legislation has | :10:57. | :11:07. | |
helped bring offenders to justice. With a specific law it is easier to | :11:07. | :11:17. | |
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promote. It is easier to understand. It is hard legislation. What has | :11:24. | :11:28. | |
targeting the traffickers meant? They have moved their criminal | :11:28. | :11:38. | |
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activity. Credit cards. What ever was not placing and in front of | :11:42. | :11:52. | |
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The Superintendents as we could be getting more convictions than we | :12:03. | :12:08. | |
think. To convict the right people, it may be rape or sexual offence, | :12:08. | :12:12. | |
some of the offences do not fall naturally under the umbrella of | :12:12. | :12:17. | |
human trafficking. It is unlikely that many of the women here it will | :12:17. | :12:22. | |
ever see justice. This man says the UK needs to do more to make sure it | :12:22. | :12:27. | |
is not seen as a soft touch by traffickers. At the moment the UK | :12:27. | :12:31. | |
represents a fairly low-risk environment with a high-return. One | :12:31. | :12:37. | |
of the reasons why it is a high return is that to put it bluntly if | :12:37. | :12:42. | |
you have got a human Slava you can use them and we use them. Day after | :12:42. | :12:52. | |
day week after week to bring you money. Greed. That is what his | :12:52. | :12:57. | |
feeling it. It is as simple as that. While it is easy to think about | :12:57. | :13:00. | |
traffic came as something that happens in faraway places like | :13:00. | :13:06. | |
Romania, it is happening in the south-east in ordinary houses and | :13:06. | :13:16. | |
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streets. It could even be happening Now, back in 2007, former BBC | :13:19. | :13:22. | |
newsreader Jan Leeming sponsored a name on the Battle of Britain | :13:22. | :13:26. | |
Memorial. And that was just the beginning of a quest to find out | :13:26. | :13:36. | |
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more about the life of a remarkable I wasn't even born when the Battle | :13:45. | :13:49. | |
of Britain raged over Kent. I can only imagine the sounds of battle | :13:49. | :13:52. | |
and the vapour trails of stricken aircraft, criss-crossing the sky as | :13:52. | :13:54. | |
an ever-shrinking band of young pilots defended this country from | :13:54. | :14:03. | |
invasion against overwhelming odds. Never in the field of human | :14:03. | :14:10. | |
conflict was so much been owed by so many to so few. | :14:10. | :14:13. | |
The closest I've ever come to committing an act of bravery was | :14:13. | :14:18. | |
back in 2006 in Australia with a bunch of celebrities. It was | :14:18. | :14:21. | |
terrifying, but I can't claim to know anything of the terror those | :14:21. | :14:31. | |
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pilots must have experienced. On my return from the jungle I sponsored | :14:32. | :14:35. | |
a name on the Battle of Britain Memorial at Capel-Le-Ferne near | :14:35. | :14:38. | |
Folkestone. I was intrigued by all the foreign names listed here, | :14:38. | :14:41. | |
especially the French pilots. There are 13 French names on this wall of | :14:41. | :14:44. | |
remembrance. Because of my French ancestry I asked to sponsor a | :14:44. | :14:52. | |
French pilot. And the name I was given was that of Rene Mouchotte. | :14:52. | :14:56. | |
Rene was a Spitfire ace who was killed in battle at the age of 29 | :14:56. | :14:59. | |
and who left behind plenty of evidence of his short but dramatic | :14:59. | :15:05. | |
life. And a mystery to solve in death. The man who chose this name | :15:05. | :15:08. | |
for me was Group Captain Patrick Tootal of the Battle of Britain | :15:08. | :15:12. | |
Memorial Trust. And he explained that if it hadn't been for my | :15:12. | :15:15. | |
French connection, he could very easily have chosen an American, or | :15:15. | :15:19. | |
a New Zealander, or any of a dozen or so other nationalities who made | :15:19. | :15:24. | |
up Churchill's famous few. There were several nations from occupied | :15:24. | :15:28. | |
Europe, the Commonwealth. New Zealanders were a large contingent, | :15:28. | :15:30. | |
Australians, Canadians, Americans who had to become Canadians to | :15:30. | :15:37. | |
fight or else they would have been arrested back home. They crossed | :15:37. | :15:41. | |
the border and became Canadians to join the Battle of Britain. And of | :15:41. | :15:44. | |
course, the free French. Many of them escaped to north Africa and | :15:44. | :15:50. | |
then came through Gibraltar back to Britain. Rene was one of those Free | :15:50. | :15:55. | |
French pilots. And I wanted to know more about him, his life before the | :15:55. | :15:58. | |
war, how he ended up fighting here with the RAF. And how he died. I | :15:58. | :16:02. | |
wanted to know the whole story. But I had no idea what an extraordinary | :16:02. | :16:12. | |
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story it was and where that story As soon as I started to research | :16:14. | :16:16. | |
the name Rene Mouchotte I discovered he'd kept diaries which | :16:16. | :16:20. | |
were published after the war. And I even found him in an old newsreel | :16:20. | :16:29. | |
from 1943. This was Rene enjoying his own brief taste of celebrity as | :16:29. | :16:32. | |
one of two pilots who shared the credit for shooting down Biggin | :16:32. | :16:38. | |
Hill's 1,000th enemy plane. So, the modest Frenchman and the Canadian | :16:38. | :16:41. | |
share the credit and the sweepstake. The 1,000th shot-down plane was | :16:41. | :16:44. | |
such a big deal at Biggin Hill that many airmen had refused to take | :16:44. | :16:48. | |
leave so they could be around to see it. And as Wing Commander Andy | :16:48. | :16:51. | |
Simpson told me, this bumped up the sweepstake prize money to a tidy | :16:51. | :16:55. | |
sum for 1943. Apparently, the winner of the sweep stake was going | :16:55. | :16:58. | |
to get �150 which was not an insubstantial sum at the time. And | :16:58. | :17:03. | |
the pilot who got the 1,000th was going to get �300. So, of course, | :17:03. | :17:11. | |
what actually happened was that the two pilots shared it. Rene shared | :17:11. | :17:15. | |
his portion of the prize money with his crew and they all got a chance | :17:15. | :17:20. | |
to celebrate at a huge party at the Grosvenor House hotel in London. A | :17:20. | :17:26. | |
rare opportunity to enjoy some rest and relaxation away from the war. | :17:26. | :17:31. | |
At the end of evening, a delegation of taxi drivers appeared who | :17:31. | :17:37. | |
offered their services to those going home any distance and for | :17:37. | :17:45. | |
nothing. In his three years of action with the RAF, Rene completed | :17:45. | :17:51. | |
more than 380 sorties. He flew from bases all over the country, but is | :17:51. | :17:54. | |
best remembered here at Biggin Hill where he became the first Frenchman | :17:54. | :18:01. | |
to lead an RAF squadron. He even had a local street named after him | :18:01. | :18:03. | |
where servicemen from all the forces still live today, including | :18:03. | :18:09. | |
Lieutenant Colonel Sebastian Pollington. We all know of the | :18:09. | :18:11. | |
significance of Mouchotte and indeed other famous airmen who | :18:11. | :18:16. | |
roads here at Biggin Hill Patch are named after. But Mouchotte in | :18:16. | :18:21. | |
particular because it's the biggest road on the patch. And the | :18:21. | :18:24. | |
significance of him is not lost on the residents here. And there's a | :18:24. | :18:28. | |
book that goes round the patch and everybody who's read it signs it | :18:28. | :18:33. | |
and passes it on to the next guy. The book is a collection of Rene's | :18:33. | :18:37. | |
war diaries. His first-hand account of life as an RAF pilot. Much more | :18:37. | :18:43. | |
than just a description of missions and sorties. These are personal | :18:43. | :18:46. | |
notes about fear, fatigue, blackouts in the air, anger at | :18:46. | :18:53. | |
bureaucracy and what it feels like to see your friends die in battle. | :18:53. | :18:57. | |
May 10th, 1941. We had been flying for over an hour when I suddenly | :18:57. | :19:00. | |
saw the fatal white cloud which indicates complete engine-failure. | :19:00. | :19:04. | |
As we made for the coast I advised him to bail out. My poor old | :19:04. | :19:08. | |
Charles, if only you had listened to me. Alas, when we were at 50 | :19:08. | :19:11. | |
feet, he straightened his plane out then with a savagely swift movement | :19:11. | :19:13. | |
the plane lurched to starboard, skimmed the sea, turned over and | :19:13. | :19:20. | |
vanished in less than a second. is a fantastic series of diaries | :19:20. | :19:26. | |
and flying logs and it is well worth a read. And the romance | :19:26. | :19:31. | |
behind these stories of these airmen is fabulous. | :19:31. | :19:34. | |
What really comes across from the diaries is Rene's determination to | :19:34. | :19:38. | |
fight to liberate France. At the Battle of Britain, Rene was one of | :19:38. | :19:41. | |
13 Free French pilots who had escaped to England after France | :19:41. | :19:46. | |
surrendered to the Nazis. According to historian Professor Mark | :19:46. | :19:53. | |
Connelly, Rene risked his life just to get here. In 1940, when he | :19:53. | :19:56. | |
escaped from a surrendered French airfield in Africa, he stole a | :19:56. | :19:59. | |
plane and flew it to Gibraltar. That was a massive act of bravery | :19:59. | :20:04. | |
and daring in its own right,because Gibraltar was on red alert. So | :20:04. | :20:07. | |
anything flying across its airspace, they could have had the whole anti- | :20:07. | :20:11. | |
aircraft defences opening up on them. And of course, if they'd | :20:11. | :20:14. | |
strayed into Franco's airspace, they would have found things very | :20:14. | :20:21. | |
nasty for them. So the very start of their journey was fraught, | :20:21. | :20:27. | |
almost a mini battle in its own right, even before they got to | :20:27. | :20:31. | |
Britain. Cheating death was a way of life for pilots like Rene. At | :20:31. | :20:34. | |
the Battle of Britain, they were outgunned and outnumbered, but it | :20:34. | :20:37. | |
was a battle they had to win, no matter what. Defeat would have seen | :20:37. | :20:40. | |
Britain invaded and overcome and left most of Europe under Hitler's | :20:40. | :20:46. | |
control. It would have opened up the way for the Nazis to dominate | :20:46. | :20:49. | |
the entire seaboard of the eastern Atlantic and possibly use the | :20:49. | :20:53. | |
British fleet to put pressure on the Americans. We might have seen | :20:53. | :20:58. | |
the Second World War pan out in a very different way. It is a moment | :20:58. | :21:01. | |
where history is shaped and made by the few, as Winston Churchill | :21:01. | :21:04. | |
called them. Rene survived the Battle of Britain and many other | :21:04. | :21:08. | |
adventures. But, almost inevitably, his time came on the 27th August, | :21:08. | :21:14. | |
1943. His death, shortly after this photograph was taken, was shrouded | :21:14. | :21:18. | |
in confusion and mystery for several years. It would have | :21:18. | :21:28. | |
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unexpected consequences for me as Paris was Rene's home town. I | :21:33. | :21:37. | |
wanted to know more about his life before the war and to see if any of | :21:37. | :21:40. | |
his relatives had survived. So I decided to visit the places where | :21:40. | :21:44. | |
he grew up and the streets he walked. Rene came from a well-to-do | :21:44. | :21:48. | |
family. He was born here almost a century ago in the summer of 1914. | :21:48. | :21:51. | |
The Mouchottes ran a successful distillery business and Rene grew | :21:51. | :21:58. | |
up in this grand Parisian villa. But today it's an apartment | :21:58. | :22:03. | |
building with no trace of his family here anymore. So my only | :22:03. | :22:05. | |
option was to leave a note at the Mouchotte tomb at the Pere Lachaise | :22:05. | :22:08. | |
Cemetery in the hope that someone with a connection to Rene would | :22:08. | :22:15. | |
find it. Incredibly, four months later, the note was found by Rene's | :22:15. | :22:18. | |
sister, Jacqueline, who instructed her son-in-law, Hubert De Lisle, to | :22:18. | :22:26. | |
contact me. My mother-in-law found the letter in late October, | :22:26. | :22:29. | |
beginning of November, when she naturally every year went to put | :22:29. | :22:35. | |
flowers on the tomb. She called me and she said, there's this letter | :22:35. | :22:39. | |
and it's in French and English. Somebody wants to make a recording, | :22:39. | :22:45. | |
photographs, on the life of Rene Mouchotte. And she was slightly | :22:45. | :22:55. | |
reticent at first. Until I discovered it was you, Jan Leeming. | :22:55. | :22:58. | |
On your email, I managed to contact you and that was it. Jacqueline | :22:58. | :23:02. | |
agreed to see me and we met on her 101st birthday. We looked at photos | :23:02. | :23:05. | |
of her with Rene when they were children and the news footage of | :23:05. | :23:09. | |
her brother from the war, footage she'd never seen before. She had | :23:09. | :23:19. | |
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fond memories of him as a boy who was always kind and smiling. With | :23:24. | :23:28. | |
tears in her eyes she said it was wonderful to see her brother as she | :23:28. | :23:33. | |
remembered him, 70 years ago when he set off for war. Although Rene | :23:33. | :23:35. | |
is remembered and honoured in France, I was astonished to | :23:35. | :23:38. | |
discover that the Mouchotte family had never received his Battle of | :23:38. | :23:42. | |
Britain medals. I decided to find out why and my search took me north | :23:42. | :23:48. | |
to Belgium and the stretch of coast where Rene died. On 3rd September, | :23:48. | :23:55. | |
1943, a body in RAF uniform was found on the beach here at Westende. | :23:55. | :23:59. | |
The man had been dead for a week. He'd been shot down somewhere over | :23:59. | :24:03. | |
the English Channel, returning from a raid over the Pas De Calais. | :24:03. | :24:06. | |
According to the documentation recovered from the body, his name | :24:06. | :24:12. | |
was Rene Martin and he was a French Canadian. And this is where the | :24:12. | :24:16. | |
body was laid to rest in the field of honour at Middelkerke Cemetery | :24:16. | :24:24. | |
in grave number 87. But the body had fake identification. It was, in | :24:24. | :24:27. | |
fact, Rene Mouchotte. He carried fake ID because he was a Free | :24:27. | :24:31. | |
French pilot. The wartime Vichy Government had given orders to | :24:31. | :24:34. | |
execute anyone from France who'd chosen to fight against the Nazis. | :24:34. | :24:37. | |
So to protect himself and his family in France, Rene kept the | :24:37. | :24:45. | |
fake ID of a French Canadian. I met up with local archivist Simon Sters | :24:45. | :24:48. | |
at the Middlekerke Museum to find out how Rene's real identity was | :24:48. | :24:56. | |
eventually discovered thanks to detailed records made at the time. | :24:56. | :24:59. | |
They don't only talk about his height, but also his colour hair | :24:59. | :25:03. | |
and the fact that certain teeth were missing. But in general, his | :25:04. | :25:09. | |
body was still in a good shape. Rene probably died of exposure | :25:09. | :25:16. | |
after crashing into the sea and washed up in Belgium a week later. | :25:16. | :25:19. | |
There's something strange about his wrist watch. It had stopped the day | :25:19. | :25:22. | |
they had found the body which is a bit strange. You'd expect that the | :25:22. | :25:26. | |
moment he crashed into the sea, the watch would have stopped. But when | :25:26. | :25:28. | |
they made the research, they discovered that it had stopped just | :25:28. | :25:34. | |
shortly after they found the body on the beach. If it's coincidence, | :25:34. | :25:41. | |
I don't know. Six years later in 1949, the postmortem report was re- | :25:41. | :25:44. | |
examined and it was discovered that a small piece of clothing on the | :25:44. | :25:48. | |
body bore the name Rene Mouchotte. So the body was exhumed and | :25:48. | :25:55. | |
transported to Paris to be reburied with the correct name on the grave. | :25:55. | :25:58. | |
It was important for the family afterwards to see who was actually | :25:58. | :26:04. | |
found at Middelkerke. If you didn't do it properly, you would have | :26:04. | :26:10. | |
troubles when the war would end. This was proven with feet Rene | :26:11. | :26:20. | |
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Mouchotte case. -- with the Rene Mouchotte case. Now I knew the full | :26:25. | :26:27. | |
story of the confusion over Rene's death and a possible reason as to | :26:27. | :26:30. | |
why his medals were never presented to his family. But that was | :26:30. | :26:33. | |
something I could put right. I contacted the Allied Air Forces | :26:33. | :26:37. | |
Museum in York. With their help, I was able to go back to Paris last | :26:37. | :26:39. | |
summer and finally present Jacqueline and her family with her | :26:39. | :26:42. | |
brother's Battle of Britain medals. She was not in good health at the | :26:43. | :26:49. | |
time but delighted to receive them. She died just three weeks later. | :26:49. | :26:52. | |
Jacqueline was buried here at Pere Lachaise in the family tomb where | :26:52. | :26:59. | |
Rene's body was eventually laid to rest six years after his death. | :26:59. | :27:04. | |
flowers look lovely. Thank you, Jan. It's my pleasure. It was a great | :27:04. | :27:07. | |
pleasure to meet all of you, but to meet your mother was really very | :27:07. | :27:12. | |
special. It was a high moment towards the end of her life to meet | :27:12. | :27:22. | |
:27:22. | :27:26. | ||
you and the medals. We were all thrilled to be there. And to meet | :27:26. | :27:33. | |
you, such a charming young person. I think she needed her eyes tested! | :27:33. | :27:38. | |
No, her eyes were much better than all of us. My search for Rene and | :27:38. | :27:43. | |
his family has taken up much of my life since 2007. But with the help | :27:43. | :27:45. | |
of a great many people, I've finally been able to complete his | :27:45. | :27:54. | |
story. So my journey has ended where it began. And after five | :27:54. | :27:57. | |
years of searching, Rene Mouchotte is no longer just a name engraved | :27:57. | :28:07. | |
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