Roger Lafontant Roger Lafontant Roger Lafontant (1931–September 29, 1991) was the former leader of the Tonton Macoutes and the former Minister of dictator Jean-Claude Duvalier. He was the leader of an attempted coup d'état on January 1991, in Haiti, an effort which ultimately lead to his death. As a student studying to become a gynecologist, he founded the student branch of the Tontons Macoutes, which supported dictatorship under President François Duvalier and his son Jean-Claude Duvalier. In November 1972, he became Minister of the Interior and National Defense Jean-Claude Duvalier was then rejected because of his personal ambitions. Lafontant was then sent
Jean-Claude Pressac at Auschwitz : design, construction, use, modifications, and destruction of the crematoria and gas chambers" which was published in 1993. Reporting from France for The New York Times, Roger Cohen wrote on 28 October 1993: The book written by Pressac was a subject of Ron Rosenbaum's interview with Claude Lanzmann in Paris, conducted for his own book "Explaining Hitler". Rosenbaum noted how much the 1985 release of the Lanzmann's controversial Shoah (film) "had raised him to the vatic, prophetic heights" from which he hurled criticism at others. Pressac was no exception. Lanzmann said: Jean-Claude Pressac Jean-Claude Pressac ( 1944 –