The 18-Year-Old Who Wrote a Note and Disappeared

“A country that punishes wanderlust with prison is not my country.”

– Thommy Jannot, 40 years after the events

In his real-time diary, the author describes a true crime for which he was sentenced to prison in 1984. This diary is the sequel to his father’s memoirs, which were published as a book in 2016. Both stories are based on actual events.

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