The controversial arbitration appeal trial which awarded 403 million euros to Bernard Tapie to settle his dispute with Credit Lyonnais resumes on Monday.
He was suspended last October due to the 78-year-old businessman's state of health.
Still marked by the assault he suffered in April, he will only attend the most important hearings.
The appeal trial of the alleged rigged arbitration of Bernard Tapie resumes Monday morning before the Paris Court of Appeal.
This is a crucial trial for Bernard Tapie because it is a question of knowing whether the 403 million euros received in 2008 as part of the resale of Adidas to Crédit Lyonnais are the result of a scam for the benefit of the business man.
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Bleached in the first trial
Bernard Tapie must attend the trial, even if he is still marked by the violent assault suffered a few weeks ago with his wife, during a burglary in the middle of the night at their home.
At 78 years old and still fighting his double cancer, the businessman will undoubtedly not attend all the hearings, but the most important because the stakes are always so crucial.
During his first trial, he was cleared by the courts.
But on appeal, everything is played out again.
Last fall, this appeal trial was interrupted due to Bernard Tapie's state of health.
It will therefore resume where the debates left off.
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On the bench, Pierre Estoup, one of the architects of this arbitration, will not be present either. He had not already appeared in the first trial for health reasons. On the other hand, Stéphane Richard, the current CEO of orange and former chief of staff of Christine Lagarde at the Ministry of the Economy, will be there. He has always claimed to have given no instructions in favor of this arbitration, which was according to him, at the time, the object of a broad consensus to put an end to an interminable legal fight.