Bernard Tapie: his son Stéphane "makes you feel guilty" of having led his father to the police (VIDEO)

Died on October 3, 2021, Bernard Tapie is still being talked about. His son Stéphane Tapie recently confided in the microphone of Sud Radio on the time he had to deliver his father to the police.

Bernard Tapie died in October 2021 from double cancer of the stomach and esophagus, but his relatives continue to speak publicly about him in order to pay tribute to him. His son, Stéphane Tapie published on January 12 How to say goodbye to you an autobiographical book in which he evokes his special relationship with his father, but also his mother’s fight against leukemia which “ruined their relationship“. This Friday, January 20, he was a guest on the show Culture in all its forms on Sud Radio on the occasion of this news. Very transparent, he returned to the time he delivered his father to the police.

Stephane Tapie has “balance“his father to the police

Go back. In 1997, Bernard Tapie was imprisoned, following a two-year prison sentence, including eight months in the VA-OM case. A corruption case that broke out following a match between Olympique de Marseille and US Valenciennes-Anzin. In his life, he had been prepared for anything, except for his son to see him in handcuffs. And yet, it was Stéphane Tapie who brought him to the authorities. “I felt a lot of guilt“, he confides. He details: “To me, I was a snitch. He left my car, he returned to the Quai des Orfèvres with the pliers“. A guilt that continues to gnaw at him, even if the businessman had no choice but to turn himself in prisoner.

Stéphane Tapie could not visit him in prison

“For me I threw it away, I took it away“, continues the brother of Sophie Tapie. This is the reason why it took time before going to visit her.I found myself four or five times in front of the prison of Health and I could not return. It was impossible“, he says before adding: “I still had that image of me handing him over to the police“. As for Bernard Tapie, the latter had prepared himself physiologically to be locked up: “He had moved into his home in a cellar, a cell“. He remained locked up”two or three hours a day“in prison conditions because without this preparation, hewould have been shot“.