A documented analysis of forty years of sell-offs, technology transfers and industrial espionage that methodically dismantled French economic sovereignty.
For several decades, France, once a leading industrial and technological power, has been methodically stripped of its national champions. Through choice, cowardice or personal interests, successive political decisions have led to French excellence being sold off and strategic industries handed over to foreign powers.
This organized plunder is not the result of chance. It is the fruit of a policy of renunciation pursued over forty years, under different political majorities, but with remarkable continuity in the result: the loss of the industrial, technological and strategic sovereignty of a great nation.
What this analysis contains
It maps, presidency by presidency, the disposals, mergers and ownership transfers that sealed the fate of France’s industrial flagships: Péchiney in 1988, Arcelor in 2006, Gemplus in 2006, Alcatel in 2006 and then 2016, Technip in 2017, Alstom Énergie in 2015, Latécoère in 2019, OMMIC in 2019, Sanofi, and many others. The buyers are identified — the United States, India, the Netherlands, Finland, the United Kingdom, Australia, foreign investment funds — and the strategic consequences are specified: Arabelle turbines for nuclear power plants, aeronautical Li-Fi technology, space semiconductors.
The analysis also addresses Chinese technological plunder documented by the French intelligence services, DGSE and DGSI: the case of the two DGSE officers convicted between 2017 and 2020 for handing secrets to Beijing, the LinkedIn operation targeting 4,000 French executives, infiltrations at Dassault, the Safran/General Electric affair around the LEAP turbofan engine, coordinated cyberattacks against Airbus and its subcontractors by the group known as Turbine Panda, the Valeo case, and the systematic use of French universities as entry points.
A final section returns to the removal of the crime of high treason from the French Constitution by constitutional law no. 2007-238 of February 23, 2007, and to the shared responsibility of elected political leaders and the voters who successively brought them to power.
Why this analysis now
Taking inventory of what has been lost is not an act of nostalgia or resentment. It is a political prerequisite. One cannot restore what has not first been named and understood. This analysis is directly consistent with the Rupture and Restoration Plan for the State and with the analysis of American influence in the construction of Europe: restoring French sovereignty requires facing the scale of what has been surrendered.
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