THE MADOFF” OF TRIPE “ | M6 | 66 minutes

Far from the skyscrapers of Wall Street, it was among the stone-built houses of a Paris suburb that he operated. Raymond Claval, a tripe merchant at the market, is suspected of having swindled more than 300 people out of 60 million Euros. With his air of a music hall entertainer, he promised to invest their money at mind-boggling rates of return, claiming that the cash would be used to supply the State’s secret funds! But the day when many of his clients wanted to get their investment back, this improvised banker didn’t have a penny in the till.