Jean Multon

In the TV film Jean Moulin by Yves Boisset (2002), the role of Lunel (pseudonym of Jean Multon) was played by François Négret.

Multon, after having taken refuge in North Africa in the spring of 1944, was able to join in the Liberation Army and took part in the landing in Provence. Arrested on Feb. 7, 1945, he was sentenced to death and shot at Fort Montrouge on September 10, 1946.

The activity of Multon as a double agent is well known thanks to written by Dunker and found on the premises of the SIPO-SD Marseille in September 1944, after the Liberation. This report indicates that Multon "'was made available to the Service of Lyon as counter-agent, after working successfully for the benefit of German services in Marseille'."

Arrested along with Benjamin Cremieux April 23, 1943 by the Gestapo in Marseille at the tavern Charley, 20 Boulevard Garibaldi, Multon talked without any physical coercion against him and accepted the proposal of Ernst Dunker, aka Delage, to work with the German authorities. This shift would have dramatic consequences for the French Resistance because Multon was very familiar with the operation of the organization in Marseille and Lyon.

Multon gave two advantages to the KDS of Lyon. First, thanks to a resistance fighter at Marseille, Charles Le Couster, arrested May 15, he was aware of the mailbox that Suzanne Dumoulin kept at 10 Street Bottle had put at the service of the Résistance-Fer of the MUR. Then, because he had the means to contact Henri Frenay through the mailbox of the Hotel de Bourgogne in Mâcon, which information was provided by Berty Albrecht whom he had met at a meeting held in Marseille in early April 1943 at the home of Chevance-Bertin.

In Marseille, Multon continued to turn in resistance fighters and to participate in their arrest, which was the case for Roger Morange, head of TR in Marseille in November 1943

An insurance agent in Vienne, John Multon in October 1942 joined a group of young people from Poitou who were determined to reach England via Spain. But the project failed and Multon ended up in Marseille where he met Henri Aubry and Jacques Baumel. He joined the Combat group and quickly became the secretary, and even "'the confidant'", of the regional leader of this movement, Maurice Chevance, aka Bertin who was also the first regional leader Mouvements Unis de la Résistance.

John Multon, alias Lunel, born 3 July 1908 at Preuilly-sur-Claise and died at Montrouge on 10 September 1946, was a defector from the French Resistance who became an agent of the SIPO-SD (Gestapo) of Marseille.