french journo faces six million euro in claims
. . . BEHIND THE HEADLINES Bailiffs have appeared on his doorstep at home some 200 times , claims the support committee behind France’s leading investigative journalist. There are some 30 court cases lodged in progress against Denis Robert in what may prove to be one of the biggest banking scandals yet – even after the global economic crisis. So far, a total of six million euros are being claimed against Robert and various French media who have reported his claims of vast networks of corruption, much of it allegedly linking to the global economic crisis. Robert has been forced to start selling paintings, tshirts, and to step away from exposes and pen a novel to try and match steadily climbing legal bills. Most of the claims come from Clearstream, a clearing bank so secretive French judges have publicly denounced it as the “black box of offshore banking.” Some 500 journalists have scanned in their press cards and sent them into one of a handful of blogs set up to support Robert. Another...