Tag: bagne

• Charles Benjamin Ullmo, redeemed on Devil’s Island.

  

  The dreaded ‘Penal Administration, French Guiana’ is far more associated with cruelty, inhumanity and death than with survival and redemption. That said, there were exceptions to the rule and disgraced French naval officer Charles Benjamin Ullmo is one of them. Condemned to Guiana for life after trying to ransom stolen military secrets, Ullmo didn’t look…

  CrimeScribe

  June 29, 2021

  History, Press And Politics, True Crime, Uncategorized

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