In Greek tragedies, the protagonists, aware of their destiny, try by all means to avoid what awaits them. However, each of their efforts brings them even closer to the inevitable. See the benches of the Paris judicial court full of journalists, this Wednesday the 20th, Thursday the 21st and Friday the 22nd of November, to follow the hearings on the newspaper’s espionage. Fakir By LVMH, this lesson from ancient theater is still relevant today.
At the beginning of this part of a judicial investigation that leads to the bringing to justice of ten people, there is concern on the part of the luxury group. That of seeing their general assembly (GA) on April 18, 2013 disrupted by Fakirnewspaper founded in 1999 in Amiens by François Ruffin. And that these actions are published. “Attracts people! (…) There is press »explains Pierre Godé, then number two at LVMH, to Bernard Squarcini, former director of internal intelligence recently fired by François Hollande and who immediately became a consultant. And suggest, in this telephone conversation intercepted by the courts on March 7, 2013: “It could be interesting (…) to infiltrate them, right? »
In addition to information on the actions planned during the general assemblies and on the participants – which will lead to the creation of thromboscopes in which telephone numbers, family information or even the political orientation of those interested sometimes appear -, the group will try to recover the documentary Thanks boss! before its release in 2016. Filmed by the founder of FakirFrançois Ruffin, today deputy (various left) for the Somme, the film follows a couple of workers impoverished by the transfer of their LVMH subcontracting factory. Between 2013 and 2016, the monitoring of Fakir It will cost the luxury group more than 2 million euros, distributed unevenly between cascading service providers.
Multiplied remuneration
Albert Farhat was the first to come into direct contact with the newspaper. The sixty-year-old man, who introduces himself to the audience as an eminent reporter – “the only one who has interviewed Osama bin Laden twice » and honorable foreign intelligence correspondent for thirty years, calls on the newspaper’s directors to stay abreast of the actions. “I did the job of a journalist, nothing more! »he claims on the stand, despite numerous inconsistencies in his story. He lied about his identity, did not publish any information collected, which he transmitted for 1,500 euros per month to anti-terrorist advisor Jean-Charles Brisard.
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