STX France

Mar 13, 2023

March 13, 2023 Bruno Bézard and Jean-Dominique Comolli, successive bosses between 2007 and 2010 then between 2010 and 2012 of the Agence des participations de l’Etat (APE), were Alexis Kohler’s superiors when the latter took part in deliberations in as a director of STX France (now Chantiers de l’Atlantique) and the Grand Port Maritime du Havre (GPMH), both linked to the shipowner MSC, a group belonging to members of his family. The secretary general of the Élysée Alexis Kohler, right-hand man of Emmanuel Macron, was indicted for “illegal taking of interest” in September. Strasbourg’s Alexis Kohler is very close to the current head of state. Leaving ENA four years before Emmanuel Macron, they met in 2010 until they became “inseparable”, according to his mother, who testified in the Latest news from Alsace in 2017 . From 2014, he became his chief of staff at the Ministry of the Economy until the minister’s resignation in 2016. “The Alexis Kohler affair” started in 2018, with the publication of a survey of Mediapart about a possible conflict of interest between his various positions in the public service and his family ties to MSC. After a year of investigation at the PNF closed without follow-up, the Anticor association obtained in June 2020 the appointment of investigating judges. In this rich investigation of more than fifty hearings and ten searches, Alexis Kohler was questioned on September 22 and 23. Then put on trial.