
The former head of France's domestic intelligence agency went on trial on Wednesday on charges of using his security contacts for private gain, including on behalf of France's richest man: billionaire LVMH boss Bernard Arnault.
Bernard Squarcini, ex-head of the DCRI security service (France’s General Directorate for Internal Security, since renamed the DGSI), is one of 10 men on trial in the Paris criminal court case.