Saint Exépury's cryptic death deciphered

The mystery of the death of the French novelist and postal flight pilot Antoine De Saint Exupéry has been solved after the discovery of the man who killed him at the end of the World War II .

The former German Lutwaffe Pilot by the name of Horst Rippert (88) has revealed that he was responsible for the killing of the author of “The little prince”. He admitted that he was a great fan of the author saying “If I’d known it was him, I wouldn’t have fired”

Following his nearly twenty-five months in North America, Saint Exupéry returned to Europe to fly with the Free French and fight with the Allies in a Mediterranean-based squadron.

His final assignment was to collect intelligence on German troop movements in and around the  Rhone River Valley . On the cool, soft evening of July 31, 1944, he left from an airbase on Corsica, and was never seen again.

His literary works were as colorful a the horizons he discovered during his flights, except the famous “The little prince”(1943) a poetic tale in which a pilot stranded in   

the desert meets a young prince from a tiny asteroid; all the others were inspired by his experiences as a pilot.

Saint Exupéry’s most famous works are : “Southern Mail”(1929), “Night Flight” (1931, Wind sand and stars” (1939) and “Flight to Arras ” (1942).