Figure of banditry in the 80s, Marco Müller, “the most wanted man in Jura”, ended his life at the age of 71 by throwing himself under a train in Bassecourt at the end of February. Information revealed by Quotidien Jurassien on Wednesday and confirmed by the Public Prosecutor’s Office.
In just a few years, Marco Müller has increased the number of robberies in the Jura, but also in Geneva. He attacked banks and money conveyors, sometimes under the noses of the police who were tracking him.
The key to these criminal activities is impressive loot, approaching or even exceeding a million francs and never found.
Robberies without shots fired
In the Jura, some nicknamed him Robin Hood because he took the money where it was and especially because he never fired a single shot. In 1981, during one of his arrests, his gun jammed. The police only had to pick him up, just half an hour after one of his misdeeds.
The man, who also had a past as a former League A footballer, also made an impression by mocking the authorities. After his first escape, he sent a case of Cognac to Delémont prison. The snub had aroused the laughter of many Jura residents who made fun of the inability of their police to get their hands on this bandit whom some of them sometimes thought they recognized in the street.
Arrested several times, Marco Müller always managed to escape. The last time dates back to 1988, when he had just been extradited to France. In the Jura, some had traced it from their memory, believing it to be already dead. On February 26, he therefore chose his native village to put an end to it, after 36 years on the run.
Gael Klein