The Chameleon: French man repeatedly pretends to be young boy

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Over the years, Bourdin had insinuated himself into youth shelters, orphanages, foster homes, junior high schools, and children’s hospitals. His trail of cons extended to, among other places, Spain, Germany, Belgium, England, Ireland, Italy, Luxembourg, Switzerland, Bosnia, Portugal, Austria, Slovakia, France, Sweden, Denmark, and America. The U.S. State Department warned that he was an “exceedingly clever” man who posed as a desperate child in order to “win sympathy,” and a French prosecutor called him “an incredible illusionist whose perversity is matched only by his intelligence.” Bourdin himself has said, “I am a manipulator. . . . My job is to manipulate.”

In Pau, the authorities launched an investigation to determine why a thirty-year-old man would pose as a teen-age orphan. They found no evidence of sexual deviance or pedophilia; they did not uncover any financial motive, either. “In my twenty-two years on the job, I’ve never seen a case like it,” Eric Maurel, the prosecutor, told me. “Usually people con for money. His profit seems to have been purely emotional.”

On his right forearm, police discovered a tattoo. It said “caméléon nantais”—“Chameleon from Nantes.”

Is this guy crazy or the ultimate actor?

Alternately, if you could pretend to be anyone else, who would it be?

CrackedLens

a midget just waited on me at mcdonalds

i made sure she didnt touch my food

lostwords

he's a pedo

not sexual deviant at all, suuuuuuure

Hunter

CrackedLens wrote: »

a midget just waited on me at mcdonalds

i made sure she didnt touch my food

Good call, it is contagious after all.

Quetzi

This dude is incredible

Shankusu

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=hq2s0AhdFE4