And or the civil part Vivendi it was found to be responsible

Jean-Marie Messier will now leave the small black Chair on which he is sitting with the judges over the past three weeks. It has however nothing lost tanning that he wore upon his arrival at the Court on 2 June. "j2m" appeared for three offences: "dissemination of false or misleading information" on the financial health of the group, "abuse of social good" in connection with the golden parachute that he had negotiated, but not hit, and "manipulation of course" of the Vivendi action. Five executives or former executives of seen so that a head of financial institution were considered to be at his side.

Among them, the former right of Jean-Marie Messier, Guillaume Hannezo, Director financial arm of light and the Canadian Edgar Bronfman Jr, former Executive Vice-President of the Group and heir to the Seagram industrial empire which had merged with Vivendi in 2000. All will have to wait until the end of the year to be attached to their fate, the tribunal having put his judgment reserved. The former boss of light is liable to up to five prison and heavy fines.

After the acts of contritions at the opening of the debates where Jean-Marie Messier acknowledged having committed "errors", the former star of the CAC 40 pattern is shown very uncomfortable throughout the hearings, rarely mauled by the tribunal, here in "errors" in the proceedings who have "bent neck to reality", he crossed the debates in all serenity. The assistance is more than sparse. Aficionados of the courthouse no doubt prefer the hearings of Jérôme Kerviel, alternating (as in the Theatre) in the same courtroom.

Then the Court has left with debates former boss of seen conducting a hearing without roughness with a perfectly ground defense mechanism: assume, justify. But it was a strange trial where the main accused was unloaded from liability in a class action in the United States. And or the civil part, Vivendi, it was found to be responsible. Jean-Marie Messier was therefore in front of him during those three weeks, the Vivendi group lawyers who are especially attached to prevent any third party of the responsibility of the group.

Last reserved today

But the former boss of given a was also against him these 300 individuals, "the people of all origins (...)". "without animosity towards who that is." They "expect judicial responses", recalled Frédérik Karel-Canoy, which defends a sixty of them. He claims jointly and severally to the seven accused - of former senior Vivendi officials for the most part-160 euros per share in respect of the damage and 10 euros per share in respect of the moral prejudice.

All grievances and resentment of the civil parties do not for all criminal offences, said Wednesday the Prosecutor's Office. Without explicitly decide the term of "relaxed", Chantal de Leyris counsel asked the Court to "draw the consequences" of an address devoted entirely to demonstrate the innocence of the former leadership of light. A choice "of opportunity" according to one of the small shareholders... swept by defence counsel. The last argument and deliberate implementation will take place today.