François Ruffin at the barbouzes ball – Libération

Accused of having spied on the deputy, who was then a journalist, as well as his association Fakir, Bernard Squarcini, the former boss of internal intelligence, assured that he had not committed any illegality for the benefit of LVMH.

It's the hearing of infiltrators, assumed identities, undercover operations… At the trial of Bernard Squarcini, the former head of internal intelligence, and a series of former police officers, counter-espionage agents, magistrate or private barbouze, only men are judged. All are consultants, most are wrapped in their activity “economic intelligence”. One of the defendants said to himself “journalist”. This Franco-Lebanese sports a press card “American dedicated for Europe”he boasts, drawing from his safari jacket, like a sesame, this paper which is worth nothing in France. “I am the only journalist to have interviewed Osama bin Laden twice”he plasters, rolling the “r”s in his diction “the Armenian”.

With his bulldog face and the rosary that he mechanically fiddles with during the audience, we imagine the man who says he was a little hand “from the DGSE”, having tea with a spring on the borders of a Gulf country. But certainly not in contact with the social activists of Fakir, the association long run by François Ruffin, which he frequented, for remuneration, before being unmasked, probably because of bizarre behavior. «Tu