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Fabrice Arfi
Fabrice Arfi
Born (1981-09-04) September 4, 1981 (age 43)
NationalityFrench
OccupationJournalist

Fabrice Arfi, born on September 4, 1981, in Lyon, is a French journalist known for his investigative work, which has led to numerous revelations regarding the Woerth-Bettencourt affair, the Karachi affair, the Sarkozy-Kadhafi affair, and the Cahuzac affair.

Biography

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Family Fabrice Arfi is the son of a vocational high school supervisor (CPE) and Alain Arfi, a lawyer who, after graduating from law school, worked as a police inspector from 1976 to 1988, specializing in counterfeit money within the financial crimes unit.[1][2][3]

During the Cahuzac affair, the minister's communications officer spread false information about the journalist's father's career in an attempt to discredit Mediapart's work on the case. She has since apologized for this.[4]

Journalism career

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With a high school diploma, Arfi joined the "Culture" section of Lyon Figaro, a local edition of the national news daily Le Figaro, in 1999, where he became a music critic.[5] He later covered legal affairs for several years. After collaborating in Lyon with AFP in the Police and Justice section, he co-founded the weekly Tribune de Lyon, which was acquired in November 2006 by some of its employees. He has also contributed to Le Parisien/Aujourd'hui en France, Libération, and Le Monde. In March 2008, he joined the "Investigations" team of the online news site Mediapart.[6][7] Vanity Fair has described him as the "spiritual son" of Edwy Plenel, co-founder and president of Mediapart.[8]

An investigative journalist, Arfi, alongside his colleague Fabrice Lhomme, was behind many revelations concerning the Woerth-Bettencourt affair[9] and the Karachi affair. He also played a key role in exposing the Sarkozy-Kadhafi affair and the Cahuzac affair.[10]

In 2018, he published his book D’argent et de sang (Of Money and Blood), about VAT fraud on carbon quotas, which he described as "the biggest scam in French history." In 2023–2024, Canal+ aired a TV adaptation of the book, directed by Xavier Giannoli.[11]

Fabrice Arfi is one of four French journalists who are members of the International Consortium of Investigative Journalists (ICIJ), alongside Karl Laske (also from Mediapart), independent journalist Aurore Gorius, and Édouard Perrin of Premières Lignes Télévision. He is also a spokesperson for the journalists' collective Informer n'est pas un délit (Informing is Not a Crime), which was formed in 2015 to campaign against the emergence of a new business secrecy law in France.[12]

Publications

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  • Le Contrat. Karachi, l'affaire que Sarkozy voudrait oublier, co-authored with Fabrice Lhomme, Stock, 2010.
  • L'Affaire Bettencourt, un scandale d'État, co-authored with Fabrice Lhomme and the Mediapart editorial team, Don Quichotte, 2010.
  • L'Affaire Cahuzac. En bloc et en détail, co-authored with the Mediapart editorial team, 2013.
  • Le Sens des affaires, Calmann-Lévy, 2014.
  • La République sur écoute - Chroniques d'une France sous surveillance, co-authored with the *Mediapart editorial team, Don Quichotte, 2015.
  • Avec les compliments du Guide, co-authored with Karl Laske, Fayard, 2017.
  • D’argent et de sang, Seuil, 2018.
  • Sarkozy-Kadhafi. Des billets et des bombes, La Revue dessinée/Delcourt, 2019.
  • Pas tirés d'affaires, Seuil, 2022.

Filmography

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References

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  1. ^ Labrunie, Étienne (September 27, 2018). "Le grand palmarès des médias 2018". GQ France.
  2. ^ "Quelle époque ! Émission du samedi 15 octobre 2022". October 15, 2022 – via www.france.tv.
  3. ^ « Envoyé spécial », France 2,‎ 5 janvier 1995
  4. ^ Rosencher, Anne (April 15, 2013). "Fouks, le roi de la com dans le viseur". www.marianne.net.
  5. ^ "Fabrice Arfi". La Libre.be. September 29, 2024.
  6. ^ "Fabrice Arfi : podcasts et actualités". Radio France. January 1, 1970.
  7. ^ "Fabrice Arfi : biographie et publications". Mediapart. September 29, 2024.
  8. ^ Déserts, Sophie des (January 24, 2018). "Edwy Plenel, enquête sur l'enquêteur". Vanity Fair.
  9. ^ "Vous avez interviewé Fabrice Arfi sur l'affaire Bettencourt". www.20minutes.fr. October 8, 2010.
  10. ^ Lecointre-Baladi, Anne-Lise (November 1, 2023). "D'argent et de sang : la saga de l'escroquerie aux quotas carbone expliquée par l'auteur du livre, Fabrice Arfi". Deklic.
  11. ^ "ICIJ Journalists". October 2, 2017.
  12. ^ B.Corson, Equipe (May 3, 2018). "Fabrice Arfi : « Il faut restreindre le secret des affaires à la seule concurrence commerciale »". POLITIS.
  13. ^ "Fabrice Arfi : "Le journalisme est aussi une forme de littérature"". France Culture. January 1, 2024.
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