Used – L'Omerta Française Sophie Coignard, Alexandre Wickham

There is a law in France that is not published in the Official Journal but is rigorously enforced: the law of silence. Hailing from Sicily and recycled in Corsica, it is omertà. Cash can circulate with impunity and in full legality in ministries. Where does it go? What is done with it? Taboo subject. Romantic intrigues play an important, and hidden, role in the functioning of the State. But it is forbidden to talk about it: private life! Fascinated by power, some celebrity journalists become - unintentionally? - accomplices to an invisible censorship. It is, however, bad taste to broach these sensitive topics, which are, in any case, reserved for the sole use of the microcosm. Authors of the best-seller La Nomenklatura française, Sophie Coignard and Alexandre Wickham, this time, attack the club of silencers who lock down the system, a repressive judicial machine, unique in the world, and all the well-meaning souls who protect the French from truths that are, apparently, not good to tell.