The club and their president Bernard Tapie would later be found to have been involved in a match-fixing scandal during the 1992–93 season (in which Marseille allegedly paid Valenciennes to lose a match), which saw them relegated to Division 2 and banned from participation in European football for the following season.
-- aux enchères --> in order to pay damages to Bernard Tapie who had successfully charged him with defamation.
During late summer of 2003, he was approached by the controversial French figure Bernard Tapie to star in an episode (especially made for him) of the French series Commissaire Valence.
He was forced to resign after hosting on June 1, 1994 a debate between Jean-Marie Le Pen and Bernard Tapie during the campaign preceding the European election, in which he proposed boxing gloves to both opponents.
At the beginning of the 1990s, under the leadership of the popular businessman Bernard Tapie, the party benefited from an ephemeral upswing in its popularity while the governing Socialist Party was in disarray.
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When head prosecutor in Valenciennes, he became famous for prosecuting the businessman-cum-politician Bernard Tapie for rigging the match between his football club Olympique de Marseille and the local club Valenciennes FC.