1926 The foundation of the Carlton
Marcel
Jomeau had the Carlton hotel built in 1926, on Avenue Jules Ferry, the main
avenue in Tunis. He wanted to sell it and placed this ad in the Gazette
d'Alger. During the French protectorate in Tunisia, the nearest French city
was... Algiers, where administrative affairs of Tunisia, including real estate
transactions, were centralized and processed. Tunisian legal disputes were
judged in the Algiers court.
Jomeau
did not sell the Carlton. His trace is found in 1940 during his conviction by
the Algiers court; he had made the Carlton one of the chicest places in Tunis
and... the hub of drug trafficking!
1940:
Marcel Jomeau, owner of the Carlton, convicted of drug trafficking.
