Denis Robert

Quick Facts

Full Name	Denis Robert
Date Of Birth	May 9, 1958(1958-05-09)
Age	66
Birthplace	Moyeuvre-Grande
Country	France
Birth City	Grand Est
Horoscope	Taurus

Denis Robert Biography

Denis Robert is one of the most popular and richest Journalist who was born on May 9, 1958 in Moyeuvre-Grande, Grand Est, France. Denis Robert (born 9 May 1958) is a French novelist, investigative journalist and film maker. He previously worked for 12 years with Liberation, the daily newspaper. Liberation. He was in 2008 when he took part in a debate in a dispute with Philippe Val, former director of the magazine Charlie Hebdo, and journalist Edwy Plenel.

Alongside his works, Robert has directed and co-directed five documentaries, one for cinema , with cineast Philippe Harel, Journal intime of affaires in progress (1998) and then four more for television Le Cahier (1999), Les Dissimulateurs (2001), Histoire clandestine (2002) and L’affaire Clearstream is a racontomy of an ouvrier from Daewoo (2003).

In February 2001, the book Révélation$ came out and had an explosive effect. Robert held Cedel International (now known as Clearstream) responsible for being one of the major platforms for concealing financial transactions on a worldwide scale. He continued to condemn them by co-producing a movie Les Dissimulateurs with Pascal Lorent, as part of Canal+’s investigation show 90 minutes. Business journalists were either in disbelief or hostile to it, while some others were just unsure, perhaps because Clearstream was threatening them with endless lawsuits. The movie gained success among the Alter-globalization movement.

On 29 March 2004, the 17th Chamber of the Criminal Court of Paris convicted Robert for defamation, both for his book Révélation$ and for his documentary film broadcast on Canal+, on the subject of the activities of the financial institution. However, the same chamber had dismissed Clearstream’s complaint about La Boite Noire in October 2003. Both Clearstream and Robert appealed against the decisions which did not turn out in their favour.

In the latter part of 1997 Robert was planning to protest the effects of what he refers to as “the machine” (the capitalist economic system) for the most disadvantaged. Then, in Portrait de groupe avant demolition, Robert presented and illustrated the collection of street pictures of homeless people, that were taken from one of them, Rene Taesch.

Denis Robert Net Worth

Denis Robert is one of the richest Journalist from France. According to our analysis, Wikipedia, Forbes & Business Insider, Denis Robert 's net worth $5 Million. (Last Update: December 11, 2023)

Robert has studied psychology and graduated with an Master of Advanced Studies in psycholinguistics. After launching an online magazine called Santiag at Lorraine around 1982. He was a member of the editorial team of the magazine monthly Actuel which he was a part of for an entire year. By the end of 1983 the magazine was sold to Liberation as journalist for 12 years, initially as a reporter in the eastern region of France and later assigned to the department of politics and finances in the “Society” department. In 1995, he resigned to pursue his own writing projects. In the year 1995, he’d published two novels: chair Mathilde which was published in the year 1991 as well as Je I’m a Malheur, in 1994. The general public first became aware of his work in the early part of 1996 through his article Pendant les affaires les affaires persistant.

In the year 1997, Robert joined seven of the anti-corruption judges to establish an anti-corruption court, the Appel de Geneve, which aims to establish an European judiciary area that could combat financial crime more efficiently. This Appel de Geneve was the focus of a book called La justice ou le chaos that was released that same year. The book was followed by a dozen more novels and a number of essays on the investigation of the global finance firm Clearstream.

He was also the writer of successful novels: Happiness (Original title : Le bonheur), an erotic book written in 2000 and translated into 14 languages; Une ville, published in 2004, which was adapted as a TV series; and La domination du mode, which appeared in 2006. The same year, he also published a novel on football Le milieu du terrain which resulted in several lawsuits, and an investigative book, Clearstream, l’enquête; the latter is very rare, because its sale was prohibited and it was removed from bookstores for almost a month. In late 2006, in collaboration with a painter friend, Robert published an art book, Dominations : ‘étrange objet de peinture et de littérature, in parallel with a contemporary art exhibition in Paris.

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On 11 June 2008, Robert decided to stop publishing about Clearstream, being under too much pressure.

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Decision No.106 from 3 February 2011 of the Court of Cassation “breaks and cancels in its entirety” the decision of the Appeal Court, rejecting all of Clearstream’s arguments. The judges commented that “the public interest in the subject and the seriousness of the investigation, led by an investigative journalist, allowed the wording and the contentious allegations, the Appeal Court violated the above-mentioned texts” therefore cancelling Robert’s previous convictions. The Court of Cassation specifically stated that “when a public debate of public interest is involved, journalistic freedom includes possible resort to a certain degree of exaggeration, even provocation, in the debate”.