EXPONENTIAL
In 2003, he launched the Smartbox brand – a gift box – thanks to the 5,000 euros that his parents give him. He then became a shareholder of the Lafourchette booking site and then created his Otium Capital investment fund. 22 years later, his fortune amounts to 1.4 billion euros.
HOLINESS
The billionaire says loud and clear “Bring more money to finance more beautiful projects rather than finance the French state “. Proselyte, he “Dream of becoming holy by being good on earth and by directing his actions towards this aspiration of eternal life and paradise”. “I prefer to avoid paying the tax, and thus earning more money, to redistribute it wisely, for the benefit of projects that we select, where the euro spent will be much more effective than in the great machine of the“, he explained in 2022 in The pilgrim (a Christian weekly), to justify his tax exile in Belgium
CONSERVATIVE
This philanthropist is above all a fervent conservative Catholic. With Otium Capital, he has created and fueled from the Common Good Fund, which supports associations of his edge. On June 4, a controversial common good night was organized in Brussels in this direction.
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Pericles
Patriots. Rooted. Resistant. Identities. Christians. Liberals. Europeans. Sovereignists: Pericles, it is his metapolitical project for “Serve and save France”. Production box, Survey Institute, Political and Journalistic Training Institute are the levers, thanks to 150 million euros over 10 years.
MAGNATE
Like Vincent Bolloré, he seeks to hold media. Weekly journalists Marianne oppose what he bought their title in 2024. Already the owner of the far-right magazine L’Incorrecthe is now eyeing the media “From the right that assumes” current values.
RN
Heard in June 2024 as part of a judicial inquiry targeting the national rally, he is suspected of having illegally lent 1.8 million euros to the far-right party of Marine Le Pen, dedicated to electoral campaigns. He refused to be heard in the National Assembly on the subject. Solicited by the Politico site, the businessman teams said this Friday that “Mr. Pierre-Édouard Sterin has never participated, directly or indirectly, in any illegal campaign funding. The loans in question, carried out on a personal basis, were structured by an adviser expert in political financing and were declared.”
ENTOURAGE
His links are close to the right, of the French Minister of the Interior Bruno Retailleau (Republican) to the adviser of Marine Le Pen and Managing Director of Otium, François Durvye, via Paul Manafort, close adviser to Donald Trump.
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The opening of the non -mixed private boarding school he sponsors, scheduled for September in the Center region, is denounced by 160 personalities in a recent open letter. They fear the indoctrination of young people.
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