Mitterrand’s bodyguards | RMC Découverte |

For 30 years, Pierre Tourlier was the official driver and bodyguard of François Mitterrand, but much more than that : the confidant, the one you can count on, the guardian of secrets. For the 20th anniversary of the death of former President of the Republic and the centenary of his birth, Pierre Tourlier agreed to tell us the story of the man he served and new as no one has ever known … Like all those who have accompanied François Mitterrand throughout his 14 years of presidency, he has dozens of stories to tell. Those Christian Prouteau recounts are among the tastiest. The man to whom Mitterrand had entrusted the Elysee and his own safety, the founder of the highly sulfurous terrorism cell of the Elysee, the GSPR creator (Security Group of the Presidency of the Republic), recounts François Mitterrand with a certain humor that we did not suspect … And then there are those who have crossed the Presidential trajectory, with whom the President liked to play, to shape his image as he intended : the photographers. Diego Goldberg, from the Sygma agency, one of the few that Mitterrand tolerated by his side and Pascal Rostain from Paris Match, the king of paparazzis. François Mitterrand or the little secrets of a great statesman.