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In almost any country but France, the crime would now have been considered solved and the police inundated with congratulations. But L'Affaire Peugeot, like most French affaires, promptly became more tortuous at the moment of its seeming solution. Was it coincidence, asked the press, that the kidnapers and the Peugeots were holidaying at the same resort? Why did Peugeot not recognize Rolland? And why had René Floriot, France's No. 1 criminal lawyer, decided so quickly to defend the accused when there seemed no chance of a fee?
At week's end, the police added that "a third man'' was also involved in the kidnaping. His name would be divulged shortly, said the police, and added that it was a name which would "shock the French public."