[1] A member of the French Gang des Tractions Avant, Buisson was responsible for over thirty murders and a hundred robberies.
Buisson was pursued and caught by French detective of the Sûreté Nationale Roger Borniche, and was executed in 1956 by the guillotine.
Borniche's memoirs on the pursuit, Flic Story, were later made into a film of the same name in 1975, with Buisson portrayed by Jean-Louis Trintignant.
Upon returning to France, Buisson was involved in a number of crimes and murders, becoming a member of Paris' criminal organizations, and took part in a hold-up of Troyes in 1937.
In 1941 Buisson killed a passenger on board a security van during a robbery, and was captured by police during an identity check.