Movie: The Baudis affair, the murderous rumor

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François Hollande
François Hollande

Self

Francis Szpiner
Francis Szpiner

Self

Serge Didier
Serge Didier

Self

Claire Chazal
Claire Chazal

Self (archive footage)

Dominique Baudis
Dominique Baudis

Self (archive footage)

Patrice Alègre
Patrice Alègre

Self (archive footage)

Pierre Baudis
Pierre Baudis

Self

Philippe Motta
Philippe Motta

Self

Karl Zéro
Karl Zéro

Self (archive footage)

Matthieu Aron
Matthieu Aron

Self

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    In 2002, serial killer Patrice Alègre was sentenced to life imprisonment for five murders. Gendarme Roussel, the main investigator of this case, believes that he will make him confess to other unsolved crimes in Toulouse. Two ex-prostitutes give a series of names of presumed accomplices of the killer, among them Dominique Baudis, then president of the CSA. He decides to face the case alone. Around him, it is silence: not an official support of his political family. Almost twenty years later, we return to the Baudis affair to try to understand it, with the testimonies of Pierre and Benjamin Baudis, his sons, François Hollande, Camille Pascal and the main protagonists.

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    2021-10-31

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