The Baudis affair, the murderous rumor

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The Baudis affair, the murderous rumor

Release Date: October 31, 2021

Year	:	2021
Slogan	:	«»
Genres	:	Documentary, TV Movie
Production Companies	:	CAPA, France Télévisions
Director	:	Julien Adam, Sophie Paliès
Producers	:	Émilie Champel, Isabelle Fuhrmann, Amandine Chambelland, Jérémy Fertelle, Karim Ouarti, Pauline Pinquier, Stéphanie Leclerc-Fournier, Bastien Lacour, Théophane Argenton
Writers	:	Sophie Paliès, Alexandre Duyck
RunTime	:	56 mins.

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.