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Power never needs to be illegal to be corrupt. It only needs silence.
In 1979, Le Canard Enchaîné exposed a secret: French President Valéry Giscard d'Estaing had accepted diamonds from Central African ruler Jean-Bedel Bokassa.
No indictment.
No trial.
No confession.
But the Fifth Republic would never be the same.
The Diamonds Affair is a gripping political investigation into the scandal that reshaped French democracy—and exposed how power protects itself.
Evan Blackmoor uncovers:
• How Françafrique blurred diplomacy and corruption
• Why presidential immunity became untouchable armor
• How media exposure replaced judicial accountability
• Why elections—not courts—became the only verdict
From Bangui to Paris, from private gifts to public collapse, this is the inside story of how democracies decay—not through coups, but through compromise.
For readers of political exposés like the Dreyfus Affair and the Stavisky Affair, this book reveals the hidden mechanics of modern power.
This isn't history.
It's a warning.
