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The Baudis affair, the murderous rumor

The Baudis affair, the murderous rumor

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Status

Released

Release Date

Oct 31, 2021

Runtime

0h 56m

Genres

Documentary, TV Movie

User Score

85%

Original Title

L'Affaire Baudis, la rumeur meurtrière

Production Companies

CAPA, France Télévisions

Director

Sophie Paliès

Description

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.