A year and a half following the death of businessman Bernard Tapie, his wife, Dominique, gave a rare testimony on TF1 in the program “Sept à deux”.
Now ruined, Dominique Tapie explained that she was being prosecuted for “a debt of 647 million euros”. “It worried Bernard to leave me in such a situation if he were to leave,” she explained at the microphone of TF1. “He was waiting for another decision.”
“Sometimes I asked him what would happen if he was gone,” she says. “It’s my skin they want, if I’m no longer there, they’ll leave you alone,” Bernard Tapie would then have said to his wife.
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And Dominique Tapie to say how much she suffered “from having to leave everything” since “all the property we had was seized”. Today, she says she lives “with a pension of 300 euros since I only worked for three years and Bernard’s only pension, that of deputy” which is estimated at around 600 euros.
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Dominique Tapie says she lives today thanks to the support of her friends, first and foremost Jean-Louis Borloo who relocated her. “All my childhood friends are there and help me too”.
Faced with these financial difficulties, Dominique Tapie explained that she resented her late husband for a time when she was “in this turmoil of moving with the auctioneers who came and lifted each object”. “I was lost,” she breathes. “But I made up with him. It would have been too unfortunate to stay angry with him.”
“He said to me, ‘They’ll leave you alone.
3/3 – Ruined, #DominiqueTapie, wife “in solidarity” with her husband, is being prosecuted for a debt of 647 million euros. She lives today thanks to the support of her friends, in the forefront of which Jean-Louis Borloo who rehoused her. pic.twitter.com/mRtIVaYnqG
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Aggression, a fatal shock to Bernard Tapie?
Dominique Tapie also returned, in this interview, to the aggression of which they were victims, a few months before the death of Bernard. “It was a shock” which, according to her, marked “a milestone in the deterioration of the state of health” of her husband who died on October 3, 2021.
“There was a before and an following this attack.”
2/3 – #DominiqueTapie looks back on the assault they suffered a few months before her husband’s death. “A shock”, which marked “a milestone in the deterioration of the state of health” of Bernard Tapie. pic.twitter.com/zFdUSaftAm
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“There was a before and following this attack. For him, he had failed in his role as protector”.
1/3 – In 52 years together, #DominiqueTapie has known glory, luxury and ruin. “Jealous”, “indomitable”, “tender and affectionate”: she recounts Bernard Tapie’s difficult character to live with, the love she had for him, and her pride in being a minister. pic.twitter.com/a29BIjusIQ
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