As for 'repulsive shit' that's my view, but I don't know what else you would call someone who, in his capacity as a member of his PCF branch committee not only allowed his resistance-hero wife to be falsely traduced as a Gestapo agent, and even voted for her to be expelled from the party on these grounds (See The Future Lasts a Long Time). At the behest of his hack comrades, he assassinated Helene Rytmann's character long before he killed her in fact.