all in combining a large number of waysAnd it will last between 24 and 36 monthsThis year surely and for much of next yearBut the situation has changed in two yearsOn paper Washington scrupulously on its promisesWe can just identify it by different means8 of net sales from January to June at EUR 23Finish the besos and abrazos the kisses and KissThe renewal will continue without precipitationIt is quite lucid about the risks he takesEros and Thanatos in the land of the Silver King. For ten days, the Swiss jurors will tackle dissect the sulphurous case Stern: the trial of Cecile Brossard, mistress and murderous of Edouard Stern, flamboyant banker of the 1990s, opens Wednesday in Geneva. Why she killed Edouard Stern: money passion A cocktail of roman train station for a couple whose history is closer to Pasolini than Barbara Cartland. Raising curtains on a modern tragedy.
On 28 February 2005, the heir to the Stern Bank, an investment fund in Eastern countries and son-in-law of Michel David-Weill, Lazard pattern leader, is shot dead four revolver shots at his home in Switzerland. His associates discover, on the morning of March 1, coated bound body of a combination in latex, referring to practices sado-masochists: the first ball reached it in the face, the second in the chest, another in the left flank, the last in the right temple. Paris and Geneva rustle of crazy rumors on a possible contract on his head in the case of Rhodia, or by the Russian mafia... But on 15 March, after an incredible run that has driven him to Australia, Cecile Brossard, with which Edouard Stern had a stormy binding for four years, admitted the killing.
Sex, blood, money... The media-judicial machine packaged... PAS for a long time. Because the Swiss justice quickly casts a discreet veil on the case. Too much world, and the beautiful world, is indeed involved. The juge d'instruction Michel - Alexandre Graber able to at the outset the highly sensitive nature of the record. Cecile Brossard defence and civil parties (the banker family) are well decided also to agree to remain silent. No need to stir the mud: there is a real desire to protect the family, children of Edouard Stern... and a number of personalities. Nobody want that Cecile Brossard exhibits at the trial the hundreds of recordings of words sado-masochists "Mistress Alice" or "Sophie", after the interlocutors, has kept meticulously, for ten years. That the lid falls. Quickly.
Plead the crime of passion
On Wednesday, against all expectations, Cecile Brossard appear therefore not for murder, the heaviest in Swiss criminal prosecution, but for murder. Expert psychiatrist gave him a liability "very slightly decreased." In the first case, it risked a sentence ranging from 10 years to life imprisonment, in the second, it is liable to between five and twenty years in prison. If the jury granted him the minimum sentence for crime of passion, including pre-trial detention, it could hope to get out as early as 2010. No matter the conviction for murder, "I want to ensure that the punishment is fair", argues Marc Bonnant, counsel for the three children of Edouard Stern, today aged twenty-two, twenty to eighteen years of age.
A fair sentence and large disregarded unpacking The Swiss justice will not be able to ignore completely the personality of Edouard Stern to understand the motives of Cecile Brossard. Between two visits to psychiatric hospital, 40-year-old woman waiting four years to be considered in its Geneva field-Dollon prison. It will be described for jurors the thread of this tumultuous relationship, listen to lawyers describe impersonal voice extreme practices of the couple. The defence will argue the crime of passion of this "loving" woman, which Edouard Stern promised marriage, and comes in fury when he blocks the million dollars he had paid him on his account. The civil parties attempt to enter the normal a secret and Ivy, man accustomed to financial blows. They will avoid carefully place the networks of the banker, his political friends and captains of industry. They do not want to stir up the difference between the ex-prostitute somewhat adrift in a suburban Pavilion and the Tycoon brilliant heir to a line of bankers since the 19th century. The fight would be unequal. What is the relationship between indeed actually Cecile Brossard and her lover A part of madness probably.
Edouard Stern was born rich, beautiful and intelligent. He was to succeed. His route but gives the impression that the gifted banker is passed next to his life. On schizophrenia. He did the choice of a hectic life, certainly, but at the edge of the yellow line, always combining this insatiable need to be loved very brutal, multiplying blows, adventurer in business, maintaining an obsessive report to the money. "His relationship with Cecile Brossard is consistent with its taste of the transgression," note a former friend. In any case allowed memories mixed to establishment... And a colossal fortune for his heirs to manage. Gathered in a foundation by Kristen Van Riel, the executor of Edouard Stern and his childhood friend, it is estimated at more than 2 billion euros. The fortune of the Stern grew to approximately 400 million since the death of Edouard. He was all prepared, put in place structures to preserve the legacy. Even beyond death, the heir to the Stern Bank developed neurotic ties with money. "There is no example in our generation of someone who has made as much money in as little time", said to his friend Lindsay Owen-Jones, the pattern of l ' Oréal, in "The new Economist" (). He loves the win, he hates losing it, or leave it to others, also well in his business in his private life. Upon his arrival in Lazard, a friend to predict its output: "In a business bank, leave money on the table and you're doing the pockets of those who are around," he said.
Fiercely businessman
Edouard Stern career started early. Entered in twenty-two years in the family Bank, it evicts his father of management two years later, in 1978, with the support of his uncles. The establishment Cree to the scandal. The heir did cure. It finally acquires its reputation of fiercely businessman and multiplies the raids, including the most famous, the one of Saint-Gobain on the water General, must be stopped by François Mitterrand, then President of the Republic. But it bored already. After selling in 1984 part of the activity, it gives the Bank for 1.7 billion francs to Bank Switzerland society in 1987. Four years earlier, he married the daughter of Michel David-Weill. They are in love. Beatrice is richer that him, he will not fear that it don't like it for his money... They have three children. He seems to want to round off its sharp corners. Happy, finally But again, it resumes, dream of a prestigious fate. In 1992, Michel David-Weill appointed his son-in-law "general partner" of Lazard Brothers & Co. in New York, before induct it two years later on his return to France as his heir. But the graft takes evil in Lazard, the hushed world of high finance. Lonely, violent, derogatory, Edouard Stern causes persistent hatred of the partners. Some will leave: Jean-Marie Messier, partner-Manager of the Bank and ex-prétendant to the position of successor, goes to join the General of the waters, Christian de Labriffe go join Rothschild, Jean-Bernard Lafonta, BNP. The clash will reach unprecedented violence with Anne Lauvergeon in 1996. Four years after its entry into the Bank, the breakdown is therefore consumed between the father-in-law and son-in-law. They "divorceront" settlement in 1997 (literally as figuratively, at the same time Edouard Stern left Béatrice): Lazard, via Eurafrance, one of its holdings, will pursue the capital of a new $ 600 million company chaired by Edouard Stern. Investment fund called first Finance & Investors, then IRR (International Real Return), will succeed a few very nice shots... But the Forum seems broken. A year after his departure from Lazard, he lost almost 300 million francs. It invests in the Eurotunnel nightmare, is focused in a legal battle on Rhodia with Hugues de Lasteyrie... The fallen angel descends to hell. For years, it follows an analysis. He knows is fragile. In 2001, he will meet with Cecile Brossard. The trial will they look like, disorder.
