Lettre à mon dictateur

In 1969, six-year-old Eugène Meiltz travelled to Switzerland to join his parents, who had fled the Romanian dictatorship of Nicolae Ceauceşcu. Eugène grew up in Lausanne, studied literature and worked as a journalist for French-speaking Swiss radio and various daily newspapers. Baffled, he watched the 1989 popular uprising in Bucharest on television, the trial farce against the fallen dictator and his brutal execution. Eugène lives – he is now a Swiss citizen – on picturesque Lake Geneva. But Romania’s autocrat, who enslaved the country and thus also shaped Eugène’s own destiny, leaves him no peace even when dead in his grave.