Gérard Davet (born 1966) is a French investigative journalist for ''
Le Monde
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''.
Early life
Gérard Davet was born on August 25, 1966.
His father is a salesman and his mother is a teacher.
He grew up in
Meudon-la-Forêt.
Career
Davet became a journalist for ''
Le Parisien
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'' in 1989.
He has been an investigative journalist for ''Le Monde'' since 2011.
In October 2010, as he was reporting on the
Bettencourt affair
The Bettencourt affair involves allegations of illegal payments made by billionaire heiress Liliane Bettencourt to François-Marie Banier and members of the French government associated with Nicolas Sarkozy in 2010.
History
In June 2010, Ms. Bet ...
, his apartment was broken in, with only a laptop and
GPS device stolen from the premises.
In March 2014, he received a threatening letter linked to some investigative work he was doing.
Davet is the co-author of several books with
Fabrice Lhomme
Fabrice Lhomme (born 1965) is a French investigative journalist for ''Le Monde''.
Early life
Fabrice Lhomme was born on 17 November 1965. He was educated in a boarding school in Normandy. He attended François Rabelais University in Tours, where ...
.
Two books, ''Sarko m'a tuer'' and ''Sarko s'est tuer'', are about
President
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*'' Præsident ...
Nicolas Sarkozy
Nicolas Paul Stéphane Sarközy de Nagy-Bocsa ( ; ; born 28 January 1955) is a French politician who served as President of France from 2007 to 2012. In 2021, he was found guilty of having tried to bribe a judge in 2014 to obtain information ...
. Another book, ''L'homme qui voulut être roi'', is about
Gaston Flosse. Two more books, ''French corruption'' and ''La clef : révélations sur la fraude fiscale du siècle'', are about allegations of political corruptions and tax evasion in France. Their sixth book, ''"Un président ne devrait pas dire ça..."'', is based on interviews with President
François Hollande
François Gérard Georges Nicolas Hollande (; born 12 August 1954) is a French politician who served as President of France from 2012 to 2017. Before his presidency, he was First Secretary of the Socialist Party (France), First Secretary of th ...
.
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References
1966 births
Living people
French investigative journalists
People from Courbevoie
French male journalists
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