Swindler of the Storm | M6 | 66 minutes

The man was already a legend. The story of Pierre Berre, a recidivist swindler, has just appeared on cinema screens, starring François Cluzet. Ten years ago he passed himself off as a senior manager of the Public Works Department and set up the construction of a motorway section in the Sarthe, firing the locals with false hope. Now Pierre Berre has been arrested in a village in the Charente-Maritime devastated by the violent storm Xynthia, where he was playing the hero-rescuer role. Claiming to be an official from the Ministry of Agriculture he placed 40,000 Euros worth of orders in the name of the State: Temporary offices, diggers, tankers… What drives this mythomaniac, who already has a record as a swinder? An investigation into the career of a complex personality.