Bosses before the commission of inquiry into public aid: why?

This is going too far, and Les Echos is worried about it in two full-page spreads titled "Bosses face the trap of parliamentary commissions of inquiry." How, for example, could a CAC 40 executive, a billionaire if that's the case, accustomed to making what are called courageous decisions by deciding the fate of thousands of employees and the future of entire industrial sites, easily agree to be questioned by elected officials of the Republic ?

Rodolphe Saadé, head of CMA CGM, owner of La Provence and La Tribune Dimanche , was recently asked to explain the use of the aid in question to the rapporteur of the commission of inquiry into public aid , the communist senator and director of L'Humanité Fabien Gay. He almost lost his cool.

Renault CEO Luca de Meo had to respond to LFI MP Aurélie Trouvé before the National Assembly's Economic Affairs Committee about the fate of the subcontracting company Fonderie de Bretagne, which has been left to its own devices. Sometimes, investigators go so far as to refer the matter to the public prosecutor, as in the Nestlé mineral water affair . Why?