Rogue trader atones by walking from Rome to Paris

Published on March 7, 2014

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Société Générale­ rogue trader atones by walk­ing from Rome to Paris

The rogue trader who cost the Société Générale bank  €5bn in 2008 is to atone for his sins with a 1,400 walk from Rome to Paris. Jérôme Kerviel, 37, wrote a let­ter to the Pope, say­ing "I come to you with no other hope than to seek the jus­tice of God and ask His rep­re­sen­ta­tive on earth to con­sider my fate.” His let­ter was well re­ceived and earned him a meet­ing with the Pope, which in­spired him to walk all the way back to Paris.

Read on in­de­pen­dent.​co.​uk 7/03/2014

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Read on  Gazeta Wybor­cza.

Translated from Jérôme Kerviel entame une marche spirituelle