Bernard Tapie, a life full of events – Gala

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Race car driver, singer, boss of a football club, minister, businessman, actor…a 45-year career, Bernard Tapie has multiplied the caps professional. An intense life began in the most extreme poverty.

Bernard Tapie starts without a doubt, the hardest fight of his life. The business man of 74 years old, former minister and former chairman of the football club Olympique de Marseille, ” suffers from cancer of the stomach with extension on the bottom of the esophagus. It is treated by the oncology department of the Saint-Louis hospital, in Paris, by a program of chemotherapy suitable. There is a hope that surgical intervention is possible before the end of the year “, comes to explain this Sunday morning to the AFP, Dominique Tapie, his companion for the past 44 years. A wife with which the former minister has experienced the glory, the fortune and the happiness of the family but also in conflict with the law to the point of being jailed in 1997.

In fact, four years ago, a player of football club of Valenciennes had revealed a corruption attempt on the part of the Olympique de Marseille club, then presided by Bernard Tapie. Sentenced on 28 November 1995, for the ” complicity of corruption and bribery of witnesses “, it is taxable to 2 years imprisonment of which 8 months firm and 3 years of ineligibility. After 165 days in jail, “Nanar ” will get in July 1997 for parole. A passage behind the bars that the businessman had evaded in his own way during his visit in February last on The Divan de Marc-Olivier Fogiel : “For me the prison, it seems that I’ve done I don’t remember anymore. It must be hard when even. Aalors when is it that we have fun? “. Testut (1996), The Phocéa (1997), the accounts of the OM (1998), Adidas-Credit Lyonnais (2008), much of judicial affairs for more than 20 years have relegated the former interpreter of the title to her Success in life to the “Justice ” of the newspapers.

A life of struggle and adversity that has found its culmination last may after Bernard Tapie was sentenced to repay the € 404 million that he had obtained, in 2008, in the context of his dispute with Credit lyonnais on the sale of Adidas, which occurred in 1993. A decision occurred three months after the man of a thousand and one lives, told in The Couch on France 3, this dark period of time during which he had thought to put an end to his days, this was in the mid 90’s : “you have to realize that at one point, I found myself by the conjunction and the sum of the penalties : most of law to sport, the right to make policy, the right to do business. They had even forbidden the right of authorship, ” explained Bernard Tapie in front of Marc-Olivier Fogiel. A broadcast during which he had also mentioned his childhood in a working environment at le Bourget, in the paris suburbs, in an apartment of 20m2 shared with his parents and brother Jean-Claude : “I don’t know of any children who were happier than me. “he however entrusted. And to add : “It was cut of in cut (…) I experienced my first bath, I was 17 years old. I’ll never be as poor as when I was born. “

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Bernard Tapie

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