Bernard Tapie died this Sunday, October 3 at the age of 78. His charms, his rants, his business…, have always gone hand in hand with television. On this document from the INA, here are his media debuts, in a portrait launched by the journalist Patrick Poivre d’Arvor, on Antenna 2, ancestor of the second current chain.
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The unknown and the little prince
We are in 1980, the young businessman with a square jaw is interested in the company Manufrance, in Saint-Etienne. The report shows the “Son of a worker passed to the Communist Youth, Arts and Crafts at 20 and music composition (for the film Les berets vert)” talk about his projects.
“All kinds of rumors accompany such a man, comments the journalist who signs the subject. To each question, he provides an answer but wants to highlight, above all, his capacities as a consulting engineer who would be one of the fastest to know how to read and interpret a balance sheet. “
Wonderful chance: while his interlocutor asks him about the castles he has just bought from Bokassa Iis, the former president of Center Afrique, the car crosses one of his sons, Saint Cyr. “You are going to make a tremendous blow” Slides Tapie, who knows all about it, slowing the driver down and opening his rear window to shake the little prince’s hand …
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The tonic gym enthusiast
At the same time, a report this time presented by Paul Amar, shows him doing the gym with Véronique and Davina, in the show Tonic Gym. The subject takes the images of the previous subject and also shows the Singing Tapie, in black and white. “My criminal record is clean, with the exception of a conviction at the age of 22 for contempt of an officer”, we hear him say.
The one who no longer believed girls
That was a little earlier, in 1966. In his first life as a singer. “I no longer believe the girls with their beautiful oaths, but I love them all the same”, assured a Bernard Tapy in the microphone with a Y. Not enough yé-yé for the time. The scene didn’t believe in him for long either …
1983 winner of the year
He buys back everything that is for sale, sometimes even men, the cyclist Bernard Hinault who is preparing to run the Tour de France under his colors. “And you, what are you running after?” “, the journalist Hervé Chabalier asks him, in this 1983 interview. A year later, he will be elected “Man of the Year”.
Le Pen’s best opponent
After a first debate with Jean-Marie Le Pen, in 1989 (above), Bernard Tapie finds his old opponent at the 20 h newspaper of France 2, in 1994, for a debate refereed by Paul Amar, as part of the campaign for the European elections.
The journalist calls them both populists. As a preamble, he takes out boxing gloves from a Decathlon bag to give them to his guests (a gesture as little appreciated by them as by the channel’s information department). “It’s serious, politics”, comments, jaws clenched, the former Minister of the City of François Mitterrand, then deputy of Bouches-du-Rhône.
The boss of OM
May 27, 1993. Olympique de Marseille won the European Cup. He is the boss. “We will forget the rest, other stories that drag on, nasty”, concludes the commentary of this enthusiastic subject of the JT of France 2.
Nanar tricks
To talk about the Tapie Affair, a twenty-year politico-judicial soap opera that pitted Bernard Tapie against the former Crédit Lyonnais on the resale of Adidas, here is, at your choice, a little musical interlude signed by the Guignols de l’Info, with Nanar’s puppet playing the DJs. Or a very well done five-minute summary, produced in 2016 by the daily The world.
The lucid man in the face of his cancer
On November 19, 2017, Bernard Tapie, who we learned during the summer that he was suffering from cancer, confided at length to Laurent Delahousse, on France 2. The weakened man shows himself lucid: “When you are 70 years old and over, you have to accept that you are going to go towards the ultimate test which is death. For me, this is not a disaster. I have lived in an incredible way […]. I have known moments of unimaginable happiness. “
Three years later, at the beginning of September 2020, he still had the strength to advise those suffering from the same disease, in front of a cameraman from LCI. It was on the occasion of the eloquence contest of the lawyers of the Paris bar. “Your cancer cells have an enemy, and that is energy. It is this that boosts your immune system. And how do we find it? By moving! If you are in bed from morning till night, you are dead! “
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