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Lyliane Fournier. He was the middle child of three brothers; his brothers are Pierre and Paul. In Vesoul he finished elementary and high school. Nicollier watched the Croatian War of Independence on television in France, and decided to travel to Croatia. He told his
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joined with
Nevenka NekiÄ, a retired professor, to investigate the story, and contacted Nicollier's mother. In October 2011, IvankoviÄ found that Nicollier was never entered into the official list of Croatian defenders, and advocated for the problem to be rectified; the
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from his pocket. Nicollier's remains were among sixty not subsequently found. It is possible that they were initially disposed of in shallow graves, which caused them to be uncovered by the following spring and then thrown elsewhere, or that they were thrown into the
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I want to help these people, they need me. I have to go, but I'll be back. You know that I'm a wild grass that never goes away.
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Jean-Michel's bust at the bridge named after him in
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