two months later and after a fierce jewel the two men meet again same office different atmosphere. the ministers stand straight and tall but is stunned and defeated the last in the show of strength with the c.e.o. his defeat is also france's defeat. the c.e.o. is patrick cronin. the company sold to the u.s. without consulting the french data. in a deal that was sealed in circumstances where the of a spy novel from prying eyes and public opinion in. the sale deals a terrible blow to french industry and its energy independence today this affair of state is shrouded in a deafening silence. story

begins in the city of bell fort this is where the company was blown in eight hundred seventy two and since then it has literally shaped to the region initially gold as a c.m. the alsatian corporation of mechanical engineering the company adopted the name in one nine hundred twenty eight when it merged with the company francaise thomas hoost and ever since then has played a major part in many major french projects it designed the propulsion system for the normandy then the world's fastest line up and connected france to spain by building a train tunnel under the pyrenees and then built the turbo generators for the biggest power station in the world a gym. but for the people of bell fort else dome is so much more to deal. with the full wolf will the vault usually to preach the early. this year and the seed of look into this will. be privy to the universe. well the

police will do view. it if you do that you know and it will do harm and. in about a little while or is this a pharmacist. in june one hundred forty four france had been freed but almost destroyed by four years of war contributes to the political project of rebuilding and modernizing the country to critique in the us explain me don't do go next door as. i've been ship. before until you clear. up any good enough look if you don't it will if you want to. get anything out loud then you started immediately knew. that either she or mad at the thought out there be a lot of ideas begin a plan not outwardly. it pretty don't do men pearl save him more. to uproot as a set of milledge it is genie. foster that genius brings the

group international recognition and it will enjoy a golden age from the one nine hundred sixty s. on words dog set on this from now on they live you tossed off yeah. i may not be still in the sixth when there are. these new media but the nineteen nineties is when the fall begins a series of strategic errors led the group to bankruptcy in two thousand and three . of. the swedish norse book evolve well jake sharp's on a beach in. djibouti this show looked astrally does it who promoted . me a. little piece should move about as one say l. stone bounced back spectacularly in two thousand and seven the group recorded the best fit. because it's history boosted by the t.g.v.

historic speed record. eight hundred million views why then in two thousand and fourteen did everything suddenly change on the morning of the twenty fourth of april bloomberg revealed that in a surprise move was selling its energy bridge which counted for three quarters of the entire group to the american giant general electric and the economy minister at the time. is done. so. thank you. to. my. year just. now the floor do not use the four says. any

take now it's almost sure why don't get there. i mean again it creaks up. through all the under streets all says are no more hand however been questioning patrick grown over his intentions for months with his back to the wall his reaction is a media and a particularly strong. in a quiver care but take orders from your home he eats internet to mean that you'll be shown to be as has at above it to some to moan. and of on this you it don't you know what a fifty years out they are but all crazy dog doo set out cookies good no coffee all i should out by t. call i don't really out there all she do ma solon in ma i still use my my to do you have it all come out as good mean is totally going to me. as dolly i did think the

most old also be all crazy dog. you know policies really mouth do you know who they are no war is declared between the two men and the first battle takes place in a public arena sure going to pleasure it new potential new naked on june. don't succeed to conciseness bustin except i also think if you look at local factors means a lot of the you middle falls so long you had the coop of course on deserve all doing well by do food on them is wise to eat the problem such as each suppose it should sit x e t in a she see to sure you know but i think he does she do it on i don't. got the call shows of course when i press you come one. this and you may not gave. this mine up to him it did me to say that shen it don't go well no one bookie fight all she need professor to others ok i met. my half ago they tend to

poke at it and as you know person from all. contempt is a pathetic when i see steve i felt unable to sway public opinion patrick crown receives heavy support from his american partner general electric together they launch a media counter offensive what upon us what if we don't use their i phone to do not obey is that they should as done that please call me on cause not demagogue a long book does explain that any young. exception is one of be the ages in the early plagued if they e-mailed good sources and also all of us all caught on to my scrooge just all along saying oh we're on the trail don't know your dog out say israel are always well why don't you look on my face your heart's forsaken jerusalem building where she had been i was like you seriously don't they come to love point to point this in he. says when he said are you that still me get my place means tell you that stone it will meet you said and that any are known to

berg seems helpless against the general electric machine backed by major banks law firms and communications specialists the fight already seems to be lost on the program. and it is unique as a dentist as soon as tim but in a dramatic twist the minister pulls a new weapon from his pocket and invites himself to the negotiating table you know now to take home one book on the. key. no i said not to praise probably as most petitions he has termed don't who could do city of it would let us to proceed you know the policy and they have no trust on cuz folks on do not tell it to she denies your knowledge if. this is all polish. old place only only could see we don't do that. says in a comp we don't know when we will not have. them is to numb the two as you've determined you to know it good person if you can are no one to bug had achieved an

incredible act of sheer force he had transformed the general electric alstom pairing into a tripartite partnership with the french state in the areas of renewable energy and nuclear power it appeared that french interest and sovereignty had been preserved so it was it that going to play morning was that they often than not disguise the music they play out on a manual that deals. with villages your local shows. are no more. say tell us where you and it hasn't bought these people why still false just saw there exists levees you don't you will know my roof a clean up not that i don't you care to conclusion do not diplomacy now the next you'll move lobbies don't sit you know use their own tam's of people these any on june twenty first twenty fourteen the agreement is signed by general electric and the french state the sale has become an alliance at this moment the battle file

storm appears to have been won however we have to go back a few years to understand the stakes. were. looked up to fourteen months fourteen months in a foreign prison fourteen months of never seeing a familiar face. bend and by all still management ignored by patrick crone and forgotten by his country. fourteen months of wondering when it will all end. how did one hundred ranking alstom executive lose everything overnight and. why is he. these men who question him so insistently. want to confessions about his company do they want from a. presidential

campaign deed has has his way of communicating but you have to hand it to him but sometimes it's better to try and shake up the established way of doing things in order to come to a different conclusion i think what's worrying is this focus on you know fake news and jump news because one of the foundations of a democracy. has to be the trust in new facts and information and if that trust is fundamentally shaken and the independent media ah criticized then i think that that's a problem from a communications perspective. when

you go. you know you know. your good fortune. preaching. if we have a new arrangements with china may build a new foundation for. us i think broadly the u.s. has a problem. in the rise of china no matter what they do. in

twenty years to u.s. department of justice launches an extensive investigation and they suspect the french company of using corrupt practices for more than ten years to with contracts in many countries initial suspicions concern bribes allegedly made to members of the indonesian government in return for the contracts to build a power station refuses to cooperate with the u.s. department of justice but the investigation continues. godless and extends to other suspected cases in taiwan saudi arabia egypt and the bahamas else dumb systematic and deliberately corrupt practices are revealed across the globe book with again if it's not. been given then me it's not do not go into the to answer it as soon as. that. is there to morrow. morning and difficult. to do now as you can i can then use

them untrue for that eclipse. and then. get home. although we already condemned a broad it's surprising that all storm should simply brush the us prosecution of. corporate leaders are convinced that the us department of justice has no jurisdiction over events that occurred outside the us territory. you know i mean again. and again course in the uk a lot of these. pop docs. use it as you need to be able when you take the a pleasurable u.s. law is the foreign corrupt practices act home you have sepia this allows the d.o.j. or department of justice to prosecute a foreign company for corrupt practices not on u.s. soil provided that the company has an identifiable connection to the united states

to them overseas it. was it. after limo was it easy for example system to communicate door libya. after did you know was it easy. example a sat phone. if you. take it if. it is unique. with a refusal to cooperate the d.o.j. is prosecution intensified in april twenty fifth teen while traveling to the united states. a one time dumb executive was arrested. you won't

believe. evade did you. do it security. i think. we. were you. know it just for the record route she was under arrest three other former employees some of whom have been retired for years before american courts they plead guilty to corruption judges and the case against becomes overwhelming. you do i mean yeah i mean. you don't. want to do long division ip.

in paris on february the ninth twenty fourteen at the lug serious bristol hotel patrick crone meets the general electric see this is the first encounter the first face to face meeting between the two men chronos temps above all he wants to sell for the company he hopes to free both and himself from the clutches of the american justice system therefore places a condition on the sale general of the trick. settle any fine for. the general electric c.e.o. accept and commits to the condition having killed two birds with one stone patrick pop the champagne. and its economic and legal difficulties are evaporating into the american sky perhaps the department of justice will even defer the payment of the five patrick crown this is the exact moment when irrevocably became america .

the idea put in to. the next. that's a giant leap to be a that. and also. so you could call it if you see the fall in the late people forget it it's an atheist it's one thing to hans it just kind of a new if you heath ask you know you know mom didn't have boarded up these are doing to me even late to do if you get off and see who else on today's date on this you know solo up the army do i don't see the book is already doing these i want it more for the full two general security official motto please already problem. is

you need great guy to me on please always he said by the way and question because they were devoted to him. develops. these are the. people who own hundred they look at all the folks that they have it isn't only damon again. within days it is unique despite several alstom executives being arrested from twenty fourteen onward patrick cronin his team went to the united states several times never arrested nor concerned they could proceed with the sale to general electric and peace it's hard to imagine that at the same time very true she has been imprisoned for a year from executives are detained by the f.b.i. the moment they set foot on american soil so much so that else dom's director of legal affairs urges company managers not to travel to the united states strangely patrick cronin remains welcome to nightly news is false and uses forty a week like too long in france however patrick runs astonishing ability to enter

and leave the united states on hindered is raising eyebrows he's questioned by m.p. jack ma at the french national assembly. hall. yeah. it cannot fit. the norm or just humans to be. bait. kitty surely sure sure sure sure like this joan sure. sure yes this is. question i think it is a for the more they need to do something more that afic works as well as i can see bill. by no proof i'm going to switch by committee said you surely can ship. and on the other commodity today patrick runs

a vase avanza makes more sense to. it it is so that it on the over be accurate. he left you no money goes the place you're safe as a dish out of the economy social issues up by at this hour doc will see postulate a total manali medicare be near merica. last many other late if i ask do. you need to malice sit on your guy any day compliment of your commissions that i can to make equally monday call on it is that quick. it you know. or. was it as you need. just give us. just give you an. idea.

and this isn't general electric's first attempt over ten years the american company has bought five companies that were being prosecuted by the department of justice for corruption unfolds under the threat of conviction and a severe fine which is avoided they have been american british and french companies a twenty six million dollars fine was paid by the gray company in two thousand and seven after it was bought by general electric this was described as the biggest fine ever imposed under the foreign corrupt practices act eight years later that record is beaten by these lawsuits have systematically put pressure on the companies concerned facilitating the purchase by general electric for patrick cronin admitting a connection between any corruption prosecution against him and the acquisition of

alstom is out of the question according to the c.e.o. the reasons were purely financial some experts and journalists even said the same thing at the time of the sale. if you don't. explain. don't. worry. takes the top should fall to those on the bubble to them was sure looks like he doesn't tell you he did i mean john was elected sure wish sure not all places can lead to point b. short used to shoot it is a quite a silly show me a gentle difficult discipline maybe because it is a multicultural emanuel mccrum the successor to on a monthly book in the role of minister of economy shares this opinion is it

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our citizens in this microwave radiation it is certainly electoral small and it's getting worse. although. i. think the. headlines but shape the weaker are not see. the fifth consecutive weekend of yellow best protest.