What I have heard this morning is simply scandalous

The eyes in the eyes. It's a Jean-Marie Messier lividum and shaking voice of emotion s corruptions which has insisted, Friday, his indignation at the 10 members of the popular jury called to render their verdict in the "class action" committed before the District Court of New York. Emotionnelle and very personalized, with callback detailed his journey from childhood to the top of a "major French companies" modest Polytechnique and ENA, the defence sought to defuse the tactics of counsel for the complainants to fly the "facade solidarity" shattered between Vivendi and its former CEO.

Seven years after, it have avoir its strategy of "convergence" pipe-content, even if it recognizes avoir committed "errors".On the merits, he strongly rejected any charge of misleading information, or manipulation of the accounts, saying have always sought to "every decision in the interest of the shareholders." "What I have heard this morning is simply scandalous." "Say that I have led the company bankrupt is a shameless lie", exclaimed Jean-Marie Messier after having sworn. "It's wrong." "I lived with this matter for seven years and I hear many today take advantage of the opportunity to wash my name, completely", also added a Jean-Marie visibly moved Messier to a jury closer than ever. The main purpose of the outrage of the former President and CEO: citation, by the lawyers of the complainants, passage of a motion by the own counsel for Vivendi in a request for arbitration on his parachute Golden dating back to 2003. While the French group displays today une defence solidarity with its former CEO, accuses the arguments of the Council of the time, black and white, the former President and CEO led the group to the edge of the abyss and have lost the confidence of shareholders as early as the spring of 2002. "He has built an empire of media on a mountain of debts;" and he felt so to his own vision that he mortgaged the future of Vivendi Universal to achieve .... "Mr. Messier was the engineer of more than $ 100 billion of losses of shareholder value and has been one of the largest and most respected bankrupt French companies" was shouted with delight the New York bar veteran Arthur Abbey, citing specific counsel for Vivendi in these documents dated December 2002 and May 2003.

"Les Guignols" cited at the bar

"Statements voluntarily intemperate, formulated in an arbitration procedure has nothing to do with the case", countered Jean-Marie Messier, visibly outraged. During his hearing, which must still go on today and tomorrow, is mainly used to justify the logic of its industrial strategy on the grounds of its "sincerity". For him, the creation of the portal Vizzavi was somehow "the anticipation of the iPhone." "Our vision was good, but we left too early," summarizes, adding that "industrialists have not delivered their products in time".Not to mention the negative impact of unpredictable events, such as "11 September, the collapse of the dot-com bubble and the Enron affair..." "on the course of Vivendi. As the debt of the group, he recalled that he had already jumped to EUR 22.8 billion in 1999 and investors were therefore unaware of the risk incurred. While acknowledging having yielded to the temptation of the surmédiatisation, he recalled that the label "j6m" was primarily an invention of the "Guignols de l'Info". For good show that he was the target of a satirical, his lawyer even to present to the dumbfounded jurors the puppets of the cranks on the big screen. I've made the mistake to do too much." When the tide is turning, above you, faster the media will get you off, because you become a symbol... ", he explained to the jury intrigued.