Published on January 23, 2025 at 4:28 p.m. / Modified on January 23, 2025 at 6:05 p.m.
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“A remarkably illegible indictment.” The tone is set this Thursday at the trial of Eric Arnoux, designer of very high-end chalets, tried in Geneva for having precipitated the collapse of his companies, deceiving his people and leading a palace life despite the difficulties. In defense of the accused, Me Marc Œderlin endeavored to deconstruct the portrait of the perfect trickster drawn up the day before and to replace it with that of a man who was unlucky and who lost everything in a project transformed into a vast fiasco.
“Yes, he fights and he doesn’t know how to give up. Is this a crime?” Pleading acquittal on almost everything and rejecting the civil claims of the plaintiffs amounting to several millions, the lawyer, revolted by the 5 years in prison required by the Public Prosecutor’s Office, insists: “Fate has already hit him enough.” And the accused addressed these last words to the judges: “I only tried to do beautiful and great things. I didn’t get rich.” Today, he says he is inoculated against the business world: “I want to launch into a more spiritual activity.”
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