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Jean-Philippe Gaillard, the impostor with a thousand faces

2020-07-31T04:21:06.195Z


POSTURES & IMPOSTURES (5/5) - In search of recognition, identity or by challenge, they lied and deceived the general public. Today, Le Figaro tells the story of Jean-Philippe Gaillard, false director of Limoges airport.


A fighter pilot in the heart of the war in the former Yugoslavia, civil aviation engineer, operations manager or even head of Limoges airport, Jean-Philippe Gaillard led several lives at the same time. But all of them were built on lies.

The sparkle at the airport

On September 21, 2012, the sentence fell for Jean-Philippe Gaillard. White shirt, three-day-old beard, tense and scowling air, the 44-year-old man accepts the judgment of the Limoges criminal court. Accused of " fraud " and " forgery and use of forgery repeatedly ", he was sentenced to two years in prison, one year suspended, probation and obligation of care for the first reason, the second having been abandoned . The forty-something has already spent five months in pre-trial detention, so he emerges free from the courthouse, leaving behind a life of lies.

On September 21, 2011, Jean-Philippe Gaillard was sentenced to two years in prison, one of which was suspended for fraud. PASCAL LACHENAUD / AFP

A few months earlier, on September 2, 2011, he was appointed director of Limoges airport. For three months, he meets customs, police,

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Source: lefigaro

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