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Okay, I was watching the french-francophone Planète(+?) channel, a documentaries- and such shows themed channel. There was a serie on grands escroqueries, like Fernand Legros, the greatest arts fraud plan, and the Ponzi Scheme creator.

And there was this case I heard vaguely about in the past, the famous fall of Bernard Tapie, the man who had Rebock and the Marseille Olympique soccer team.

I learned then it was actually not him who frauded, but he was a victom, apparently - and to complexify thing, he had dream of being THE politician in France, president of the republic. Or at least settle for something like Marseille's mayordom for a good while.

But apparently, there was also some shades of conspiration and backstabbing, as some peoples did REALLY not want him at neitheir posts, and manipulated things around to screw his position, his estate and his bids. Backstabs hath happened.

So, what if the things turned differently? What if the manipulations failed, his presidential bid was kept around? First, had he any serious chances, and how he would change things then if not? He was centrist turned originally, I heard, and caused... problems both on right AND left. And how a Tapie presidency would have turned, then?

You can also work him as a minister, or at the very least, his 'consolation price', the mayordom of Marseille.

Disclaimer; I am quebécois and don't know much the politics of France, honestly.
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