

The Baudis affair, the murderous rumor
2021-10-31 · 56 min · ★ 8.5
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.
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- Directors
- Julien Adam, Sophie Paliès
- Production companies
- CAPA, France Télévisions
- Countries
- France
- Status
- Released
Top Cast
François HollandeSelf
Francis SzpinerSelf
Serge DidierSelf
Claire ChazalSelf (archive footage)
Dominique BaudisSelf (archive footage)
Philippe MottaSelf
Karl ZéroSelf (archive footage)
Matthieu AronSelf
Patrick Poivre d'ArvorSelf (archive footage)
David PujadasSelf(archive footage)
Pierre AlfortSelf
Camille PascalSelf
Pierre BaudisSelf (archive footage)
Philippe Douste-BlazySelf
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