Just Style (Free subscription) | 29/07/2008
Colourful French tycoon Bernard Tapie has been awarded a EUR285m (US$450m) payment from the French Government 13 years after the sale of his Adidas sports goods group.
Boston Globe (Free subscription) | 28/07/2008
France will not fight a decision awarding 285 million euros ($449 million) to maverick businessman Bernard Tapie as compensation for the mishandling of the 1990s sale of sportswear maker Adidas, a government ministry said Monday.
French Politics (Free subscription) | 17/07/2008
Ségolène Royal's apartment was burgled, and she charged that Sarkozy was behind it. Now a court has awarded Bernard Tapie a large settlement in a lawsuit, and François Bayrou alleges that Sarko is behind that, too. It's a good thing he's a hyperpresident. Otherwise he wouldn't have enough time to get into so much mischief. It is a trifle unseemly, though, for presidential candidates to be
France24 (Free subscription) | 12/07/2008
After 14 years, politician, businessman, actor and football coach Bernard Tapie has won a 230 million euro compensation from Credit Lyonnais, which had bought the company Adidas from him before selling it off for twice the amount.
