Known as The Boar of the Moors (French: Le sanglier des Maures), he killed three people on three separate occasions between 1954 and 2007, each of which was a result of his being released from prison early.
He had a tumultuous childhood, as he was frequently beaten by his alcoholic father and was neglected by his mother, who preferred to spend time with her lover than with her family.
[2] At the age of 14, Millet dropped out of school and instead spent most of his time in the ruined castle overlooking his hometown, as well as the maquis that surrounded the area.
He did not cease committing thefts during his stay there, and acquired additional convictions for assaulting a fellow officer and illegally possessing a weapon of war.
While Dogliotti herself had no problem with seeing Millet, her aunt disapproved of their relationship due to his obsession with weaponry, his criminal convictions and her niece's young age.
[2] In March of that year, Maggiorana was at a bar with her fiancé when Millet suddenly entered and called her out, with the woman warning him to stay away from Paulette.
Their conversation eventually erupted into an argument which resulted in Millet being slapped in front of everyone before being thrown out of the establishment by Maggiorana's fiancé.
On 3 April, at about 5 PM, Maggiorana and Dogliotti were sitting near a bus stop in front of the Aux Dames de France store when Millet crossed the street, went straight towards her and shot the former in the head, killing the woman instantly.
Concerning Maggiorana, he claimed that he wanted her to accompany him to the police station so she could withdraw her complaint, but she supposedly started screaming the moment she saw him, which made him panic and shoot her instead.
[2] In March 1956, a new trial began at the cour d'assises in Nice, where Millet was resentenced to life imprisonment at a penal colony.
[2] Whilst in Clairvaux Prison, Millet frequently corresponded with the wife of one of his friends, Fernande "Nande" Valentin, a nurse's aide at the San Salvadour Hospital in Hyères who often visited him.
While in police custody, Millet stated that after killing his wife, he decided that he would shoot himself and their pet Dobermann in the maquis with a pistol.
While in custody, he asked to speak to the commissioner, whose office was on the second floor, and when he was allowed to, he attempted to commit suicide by jumping from the landing onto the police station's stairwell but was apprehended before he could do it.
As part of the investigation, the police opened Valentin's locker at her workplace, where they found drafts of a break-up letter addressed to an undisclosed lover.
He confided to her his entire criminal career, but despite this, Gisèle accepted him, revealing that she lived off her disability pension and spent most of her money at a casino, due to which she was in debt.
He unsuccessfully attempted to appeal the decision, and when the original conviction was upheld, he spent the following 5+1⁄2 years behind bars before he was paroled in August 2007.
Now aged 78 and with 30,000 euro in savings, Millet moved into a hotel in Hyères, where he soon took notice of a female neighbour named Chantal.
After learning that she was depressed and had financial issues, Millet offered to move in with her, pay her rent and even buy her gifts.
On one occasion, he offered to take her out to a restaurant, but he quickly became upset at the fact that a male friend of Chantal, 41-year-old Christian Fernandez, visited their shared apartment almost every day.