DANY BOON: THE €6 MILLION SCAM | M6 | 66 minutes

On Friday 26 September, an unusual trial will begin in Nice: that of the con artist who allegedly swindled nearly €7 million from French cinema’s most bankable actor, Danny Boon.
Thierry Fialek-Birles to some, Terry Birles to others, or even Lord Waterford-Mandevill. He pretended to be a Franco-Irish aristocrat with a degree from Oxford, owner of several yachts, a manor house and even a cottage in Normandy, whose parents had died in a helicopter crash… In reality, Thierry was born in the Yvelines, his parents are still alive, and those who knew him when he was young already saw him as a young man who made up stories and loved to live the high life.
Arrested in Panama after three years on the run, he is being prosecuted for fraud, money laundering and forgery. Portrait of this high-flying con artist who managed to fool Boon.