Éric Yung

Éric Yung
Born	30 March 1948 (1948-03-30) (age 76) Abbeville
Occupation	philosopher

Éric Yung (born on 30 March 1948 in Abbeville) is a former police inspector who transitioned into journalism.

Biography

Family

Éric Yung, pen name of Jean-Bernard Vincent, was born on 30 March 1948 in Abbeville, into a communist Picard family. He has five children with four women.

Police activities

From 1969 to 1978, Éric Yung worked as a police officer, first as a peacekeeper in Paris, then in 1975, after an internal exam, as an inspector with the second territorial brigade of Paris. He was later assigned to the Paris Police Prefecture's Research and Intervention Brigade (BRI), the anti-gang unit, until 1978.

While in the anti-gang unit, he participated in the surveillance related to threats against Jean de Broglie, who was assassinated in December 1976 without police intervention. Yung expressed his disagreement with efforts to cover up this surveillance and was subsequently dismissed from both the BRI and the National Police. He claims he was targeted in an attack at the home of Yves Mourousi, where both were injured on 31 August 1978.

Journalism activities

In 1980, Éric Yung joined Le Quotidien de Paris, a newspaper owned by Philippe Tesson. He then helped launch Les Nouvelles Littéraires and became a senior reporter. In 1983, he joined the program management team at France Inter as a producer. After Les Nouvelles closed, he worked at Le Matin de Paris as an editor and later became a senior reporter at the weekly VSD. He now contributes to the free weekly "Le Petit Solognot."

A former editor-in-chief at Radio France and literary columnist on France Bleu Île-de-France, Éric Yung produced and presented several radio shows, including Dossier X... en cavale, Macadam Regard, Pêcheurs d'histoires, Café Crime, Hors la loi, Fait Divers, and others, particularly on France Inter.

He frequently appears in televised debates and programs on TF1, France 2, France 3, LCI, Arte, and others. He was also a literary columnist on Paris Première for two years on Michel Field's show Field dans ta chambre.

Literary activities

Éric Yung has written various works, including:

• La Tentation de l'ombre (partly autobiographical novel)
• Le Diable est un assassin
• Du cambriolage considéré comme l'un des beaux arts
• Un silence coupable (novel)
• Les Nouvelles Archives de l'étrange
• Mon ami le bourreau (novel)
• Landru - 6h10 - Temps clair
• Rebelle - Marc Blondel (biography collaboration)
• Escroqueries légendaires (2016)
• L'assassin et son bourreau (novel, 2017)
• Les Archives de l'insolite (2018)
• Charles Manson et l'assassinat de Sharon Tate (2019)
• Five Points (2022)

Other activities

Éric Yung organized the exhibition "La science mène l'enquête" at the Palais de la Découverte in Paris, which attracted nearly a million visitors. In 2013, he also organized the exhibition "Landru - 6h10 - Temps clair" at the Museum of Letters and Manuscripts in Paris.

Distinction

In 2013, Éric Yung was named a Knight of the Order of Arts and Letters (9 July 2013).