THE “VIRGIN’S MESSENGER” SWINDLES | M6 | 66 minutes

Always covered in a white prayer veil, she claimed she communicated with the Virgin. But that didn’t bring her luck: Agnes Malet, 48, spent New Year behind bars for fraud. In the Corsican village where she lived, they accuse the woman who called herself “The Messenger” of literally stripping dozens of people bare, including her own husband. The founder of a religious community, “The Ave Marie of the Infant Jesus”, she is said to have used her influence on her followers to squeeze tens of thousands of Euros out of them. In the village of Vecovato, in the Haute-Corse, there had long been anxiety over the abuses of her association, where some twenty people lived. Who is this mysterious Agnes Malet, former nursing auxiliary, who came from the continent? Did she really abuse the trust of those around her?