FRANCE INTER – TUESDAY MAY 3 – PODCAST
First of all, give back to César what the listeners of France Inter owe him. That is to say a lot. A long-time reporter, Christophe Barreyre imagined, in 2014, “Sensitive Affairs”, which has since become one of the flagship programs of France Inter. Hosted by Fabrice Drouelle, this program comes back on the air every day on a news item, political, economic, social or cultural, and, on Fridays, the story offered in the first part of the program takes the form of a fiction.
“Fiction is interesting for talking about reality in that it opens up other perspectivestold us Christophe Barreyre. This is what, in a sense, certain novelists, such as Marie NDiaye or Emmanuel Carrère, do. » Hence his desire to develop series. So of course, France Inter does not have the means of Netflix, but it is lucky to be able to rely on authors and directors of great talent.
False invoices
Thus, it was François Pérache and Cédric Aussir who signed La Vestedevoted to François Fillon and the “Penelopegate”, and Joan returns, a series in four episodes on the history of Le Pen (2018 and 2019). Recently, Vincent Hazard and Baptiste Guiton proposed Panda, the voice of jihad, returning to the terrorist journey of the Clain brothers. And they are the ones who today sign the excellent 22 millions, which tells Bygmalion.
A quick reminder of the facts: in 2014, the affair broke out when Point accuses the company of overcharging its communication services to the UMP for the benefit of its leaders and Jean-François Copé. False invoices which correspond to the payment of real services provided by Bygmalion during Nicolas Sarkozy’s 2012 campaign. Sentenced on September 30, 2021 to one year in prison, the former head of state appealed this decision.
And it is this whole affair that tells, with a more than certain sense of twist, the series imagined by Vincent Hazard, who has decided to give it to hear from the point of view of Florence, which the actress perfectly embodies. Tiphaine Daviot. A fictional character although inspired by the original investigator, Florence is a police lieutenant who recently arrived at the Central Office for the Fight against Corruption and Financial and Tax Offenses (created in 2013, the OCLCIFF is one of the first set up to “fight in a determined manner against all forms of fraud and breaches of probity undermining both national solidarity and the exemplarity of the Republic”).
In the first episode, we present the facts and the main protagonists: Florence therefore, but also François Mollins, who is responsible for opening the investigation, Jérôme Lavrilleux, known to be the “gun carrier” of Jean-François Copé, he was deputy director of Nicolas Sarkozy’s presidential campaign (episode 2). There are also judges Renaud Van Ruymbeke, Serge Tournaire and Roger Le Loire. (episode 4).
But it is useless, basically, to say more, because the case is known. Let’s say, on the other hand, that Vincent Hazard knew how to make it a largely documented fiction without ever the dramaturgy being sacrificed on the altar of invoices. In addition, this series, hand-sewn by Baptiste Guitton, who signs the production and whose beautiful voiceover we hear, sheds light on the functioning of justice in France. To be shared widely.
“22 million”, a series by Vincent Hazard directed by Baptiste Guitton. (6 x 30 min) “Sensitive Affairs”, to be found on the podcast application of France Inter and that of Radio France.