Plot

Special Investigation is a reporting and investigation program broadcast on Canal+ from September 2002 to June 2016, which took over from Lundi Investigation and 90 Minutes, previous investigation programs broadcast on Canal+. The investigative journalist Paul Moreira, who founded these two programs in 1999 and 2003, left Canal+ 2006 to create the Premières Lignes television press agency, which from the outset has been an important supplier of investigations for Special Investigation but also for Cash Investigation, founded in 2012 by Elise Lucet. From the mid-2010s, the show came under pressure over its revelations, denounced by the editorial team. In 2016, Geoffrey Livolsi, Nicolas Vescovacci, the two authors of an investigation which was to be broadcast on May 18, 2015 in Special Investigation, and Jean-Pierre Canet, editor-in-chief of the documentary, filed a complaint for "obstruction of freedom of expression", "abuse of corporate assets" and "abuse of power", to protest against these pressures. According to their complaint, Vincent Bolloré, president since 2014 of the supervisory board of Vivendi, parent company of Canal+, called the former general director of the encrypted channel, Rodolphe Belmer, since dismissed, to "demand the deprogramming of the documentary" , highlighting his friendship and business ties with the boss of the bank that the documentary was about.—TVStory