Tristan Redman
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1,489 appearances
30 recordings
4 series
first heard Jan 2026
last heard 23 Aug
Tristan Redman’s voice in public audio — every appearance, attributed to the second.
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It's a lot.
But quietly, in the background, stories begin to emerge in the French press.
Stories that in the noise of the Sarkozy presidency, few people may have noticed.
They're some of the earliest reports about the money that had been spent in his presidential campaign.
Newspapers report that Sarkozy's 2007 campaign was the most expensive in French history.
At first, nobody's saying there's anything unusual about any of this, just that lots of money was spent.
But gradually, the question of the campaign finances begins to attract more attention.
This is journalist Fabrice Arfi.
No doubt.
The suspicion was that there had been mountains of cash, bundles of banknotes, which were used to pay the people on the campaign without any of it being declared.
Now, this is important because campaign funding is strictly controlled in France.
There's a limit to how much you can spend.
And in 2007, that was 21.5 million euros.
And Sarkozy's campaign was right on the limit.
At the end of the campaign...
There's so much cash left over at the end of the election, so many big banknotes, that the campaign managers don't know what to do with them.
it's not clear what they did do with this cash in the end.
Sarkozy's 2007 campaign says that its finances have all been okayed and signed off.
And the treasurer says this extra cash was sent in as anonymous donations.
But the judge in Sarkozy's trial says that nobody working on the campaign remembers receiving any envelopes of cash in the party mailroom.
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