Governing is to scare and reassure

Robert Charvin

Fear is a political weapon

Many citizens are the victims of the lies of our political, economical, financial but also administrative, military, sanitary leaders. For years, whistleblowers from all backgrounds have proved that the truth scares and isolates. It is easier to destroy the lives of the ones who act in conscience, with all goodwill for the sake of the community rather than proposing long-term solutions. However, whistleblowers as defined by the French Sapin II law are not the only ones who alert about the State’s wrongdoings:  the movie Gibraltar was inspired by the Customs agent Marc Fievet’s story. In the numerous interviews given to media, he has for years explained that he had been abandoned by the French administration.

His web site details the situation he had to face: "Undercover as of 1988 on the Costa del Sol and the drug hug Gilbratar, Marc Fiévet, age 43 at the time, operated during six years within the international drug dealers networks.The French Customs teamed up with him to open a restaurant in Estepona, Spain and financed a cargo for him to better infiltrate the world of drug trafficking. He was introduced by the French Customs authorities to the Spanish Customs authorities (SVA), to the British Customs authorities (HM Customs and Excise) and to the US DEA service as being the agent on duty on the Costa del Sol and the Gibraltar zones. During his activity, he contributed to have 100 tons of drugs seized and 97 drug dealers arrested. However, he was also arrested and then sentenced in 1994 in Canada for drug trafficking, without Paris coming to his rescue. Transferred to France, it is only in 2005 that he got out of prison, after ten and a half years in prison. For Marc Fiévet, it is unbelievable that his employer - or his appropriate Minister - has ‘abandoned’ him in this manner and that the State continues to deny compensation. In 2005, the France 3 program Pièces à conviction disclosed the incredible story of NS55, agent Fiévet’s code name whom they met when he got out of prison. Mr. Fievet has since continued to fight for his rehabilitation". His story being "Classified", not a single authority wants to hear about this story anymore.

Photo: Marc Fiévet during thebook signing for "Infiltré" – personal collection

On March 2nd, 2021, more than fifteen years after getting out of prison, after a journey as unfair as it is cruel, the former undercover announces the unthinkable on his Twitter account:

"NS55 DNRED" SCANDAL:

After having exhausted all the remedies in France, I filed a claim at the European Court in order to hedge on the iniquity of the judgement received after my file remained “Classified”. The complaint was rejected without reasons for refusing it!

Marc Fiévet (@marcfievet)

Undercover to serve our country, Mr.Fiévet suffers the same denial as the one which has destroyed my life. One of his last tweets has particularly touched me because he can understand more than anyone else the nightmare I have been suffering on a daily basis for more than ten years when I had to work under the command of French Customs sworn officers: "FRANCE (UBS) : Stéphanie Gibaud devenue agent de renseignement et lâchée par des salauds de Bercy". (Stephanie Gibaud turned into an intelligence officer and was abandoned by bastards in the Ministry of Finances)

We have been used by France because we are ethical and talented. To have served our country so well, we only received lies and arrogance of our State ‘elite’ in return.

I cannot recall those in favor of the Sapin law be outraged for the shameful fate of Marc Fiévet, hold the State accountable whereas this law ambitions to “bring the French legislation to the best European and international standards as far as fighting corruption is concerned and thus contributes to a more positive image of France abroad”("porter la législation française aux meilleurs standards européens et internationaux en matière de lutte contre la corruption, et contribuer ainsi à une image positive de la France à l’international").

French companies managers also are the victims of our State’s malfunctions at the highest level, namely with the direct responsibility of politicians and senior officials. With cowardice, denial and with an extraordinary confidence, boosting their careers and their own interests have turned out to be the daily concern of these ‘elites’, instead of protecting our strategic interests and the citizens of the country of human rights.

Frédéric Pierucci, is a former Senior Manager working for Alstom, a French energy and transport group. He was the Director of the boilers subsidiary of Alstom Power. Pierucci faced charges of corruption and was indicted by the government of the United States of America. Arrested by the FBI when stepping off a place at the New York JF Kennedy airport in April 2013, he was prosecuted for violation of the “Foreign Corrupt Practice Act”, a US extraterritorial law, which allows the USA to use it for the purposes of economic warfare. In fact, the country priding itself as the biggest democracy in the world reproaches the French senior manager to have been aware of Alstom using a consultant who would have paid bribes to Indonesian officials to secure a contract for boilers at a power plant ten years before.

In order to reduce his prison sentence, the French citizen had no other choice than pleading guilty before a prosecutor during the summer of 2013 but his imprisonment, which was supposed to last six months will finally last twenty-five months. Whereas my UBS ex-colleague Bradley Birkenfeld was enjoying a prison treatment where he could welcome journalists for interviews, Frédéric Pierucci’s daily life was quite different in a high security prison.

In the book "Le piège américain" (JC Lattès, 2019) co-written with the Fre