Pierre Bernadin

Pierre Bernadin aka "Tito", born November 22, 1971 in Hinche (Haiti) and a writer, actor and screenwriter. Born in Haiti, Roosvelito, his original first name which the contraction will give Tito - is first entrusted to his grandmother who ensures his education and brings him maternal love. His parents had indeed left their island to look for work in France. The reunited family moves to the Paul-Éluard estate, in Bobigny in the Parisian suburbs, where Tito discovers primary school, learns French and makes his first friends, those with whom he will commit childhood pranks. He grows up with an abusive and brutal father and dreams of becoming a cartoonist, or a surgeon. As a teenager, Pierre Tito shows himself as a rebel and anti-militarist before ending up wearing the uniform for eighteen months, as a "disciplinary measure following the burglary of a joke shop" in Drancy. "I was a minor, the judge offered me this way out," he comments. After the army, Tito tried to earn an honest living and was recruited as a security guard. And his "beautiful love story". But that was without counting on the separation, then the depression. "I didn't know how to talk about my unhappiness to my loved ones. On the other hand, I found that the challenges thrown down by former robbers perfectly suited my desire to screw myself up", he only sees dying under the bullets of the police as a way out... He recounts this entry into organized crime in the book "Alias ​​Tito" by Françoise Toussaint publis…