François Ruffin “is trying to exploit this trial for personal, political, even commercial reasons”, assures Bernard Arnault

LVMH boss Bernard Arnault took the stand this Thursday as part of the influence peddling trial for the benefit of LVMH.

François Ruffin “tries to exploit this trial for personal, political, even commercial reasons“, assures Bernard Arnault on Thursday November 28, summoned to the bar in the influence peddling trial for the benefit of LVMH. The boss of the luxury company attacks the MP, civil party in this trial.

“He takes the opportunity to market his latest film“, assures Bernard Arnault, while at the time, François Ruffin was filming “Merci Patron”, a satirical film on the world leader in luxury awarded the César for best documentary in 2017. He worried the group because he planned to disrupt assemblies general principles of the multinational.

“Mr. Ruffin believed that we were the champions of layoffs and relocations, this is false“, assures the CEO of LVMH. “I wondered: why these untruths? I said to myself: this is probably his political side. It made me think of a Trotskyist quote: 'When you want to emerge politically, find an enemy and cling to him to progress'.“

Concerning “Merci Patron”, Bernard Arnault assures that he does not have “personally never asked to see this movie before“. “I saw it afterwards and I found it very funny. Mr. Ruffin is much better cinematically than politically. I didn't watch it twice though!“, launched Bernard Arnault.

Called to the stand, Bernard Arnault testifies at the trial of the former head of domestic intelligence Bernard Squarcini, suspected of having taken advantage of his networks to obtain confidential and privileged information for the benefit of the luxury group in particular.