Jean-Paul Pigasse

Jean-Paul Pigasse (born 1939) is a Brazzaville-based French journalist and media proprietor.

Jean-Paul Pigasse
Born (1939-07-26) 26 July 1939
Toulouse, France
NationalityFrench
EducationInstitut d'études politiques de Toulouse
OccupationJournalist, media proprietor
RelativesMathieu Pigasse (nephew)

Early life

Jean-Paul Pigasse was born on 26 July 1939 in Toulouse, France.

Career

Pigasse wrote under the pseudonym of 'Favilla' for Les Echos from 1978 to 1984.[1] He is the author of five non-fiction books.

He is the owner of ADIAC, a communications firm which publishes the daily newspaper Les Dépêches de Brazzaville in the Republic of the Congo.[2][3] He is friends with Congolese President Denis Sassou Nguesso.[2][3]

In 2002, Tracfin realised that in 1999–2000, he had received 2.2 million Francs (around 340,000 Euros) from an offshore company called Socoil.[2] Out of this sum, 1.2 million Francs were transferred to French businessman André Tarallo as a payback for a prior loan.[2]

Personal life

His wife is a cousin of French businessman Alfred Sirven.[2] He lives in Brazzaville, Congo.[3]

Bibliography
  • La difficulté d'informer : vérités sur la presse économique (Paris: Alain Moreau, 1975).
  • Les sept portes du futur : des clés pour déchiffrer l'avenir (Paris: Albin Michel, 1981).
  • Le bouclier d'Europe (Paris: Robert Laffont, 1992).
  • La France et sa défense (with Jacques Baumel, Paris: Forgues, 1994).
  • Congo, chronique d'une guerre annoncée : 5 juin-15 octobre 1997 (Paris: L'Harmattan, 1997).
  • Le dossier noir de la presse française (Paris: Forgues, 1998).

References
  1. Jean-Paul Pigasse, Bibliothèque nationale de France
  2. La justice enquête sur l'ami du président congolais, Le Parisien, April 24, 2002
  3. Maria Malagardis, Brazzaville entre plumes et enclume, Libération, February 22, 2013


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