Princess of Gaza, Frank Schumann, Veronique Grosjean

Yulia Tymoshenko, the Ukrainian politician born in 1960, former icon of the Orange Revolution, who became Prime Minister and then rival of President Viktor Yanukovych and leader of the opposition, is best known for her radiant face framed by typical braids, her privileged relationship with the master of the Kremlin, Vladimir Putin, and her current situation behind bars, which has outraged Westerners. Sentenced to seven years in prison in October 2011 for abuse of power during her second term as head of government, hospitalized since May 2012, she is awaiting her second trial for alleged tax evasion and embezzlement, repeatedly postponed. She is also suspected of having ordered the assassination of a deputy in 1996. This new, much more serious charge could lead to life imprisonment. But what do we really know about the Tymoshenko case, apart from the fact that it is blocking Ukraine's entry into the EU? Against the current of this media silence, German journalist Frank Schumann investigated on site for a year, revealing a large-scale intertwining of private and public interests. Unsolved crimes, sex and money affairs, former KGB spies: the cocktail is explosive and the emblematic figure not so virginal.