But without the last coup as some expected

And Antoine Bernheim stood, leaving the General Assembly of shareholders of Generali is complete without him. Saturday, in Trieste, one who was for a few hours even the President of the first Italian insurer did not intend to attend the enthronement of the new Board of Directors, which rejected it Mediobanca, the shareholder of reference. While the room without surprise, approved the choice of the new directors, he regained his car surrounded by a swarm of journalists. '' This is my case". "They want more of me, I'm going," he said. "They were removed from the Council those who were competent", he added, while Claude Tendil, CEO of Generali France, not him nor step was renewed.

Earlier in the day, he avait kept the floor more une time. Stand up, hands crossed behind his back, strapped into his Lord costume three pieces, he turned on his thirty-seven years in Generali, including twelve as President (between 1995 and 1999, then from 2002 to 2010). With emotion, voice sometimes shaken by some tears. With bitterness also. But without the last coup as some expected. "I have a lot of resentment for some, but I have not expressed it." "I am for peace of the brave... and even the non-braves," concluded Antoine Bernheim. Without being able to stop dragging that her age was only "a pretext" for its "enemies": "it seems that today ' today, eighty five years, I am an old man"rimbambito"cast.".

"The output to be".

"I have yet done very good work", he said, recalling that the "lion of Trieste" is now 70 billion euros of premiums, compared to 14 billion at the beginning of his first term of President. Time to leave, he was still in sight "several" proposed acquisitions, in Asia or the Brazil, cited as rare current external growth fields. "The Generali have interest to go to Russia, because there is no life in this country", also warned, while discussions with the Russian oligarch Oleg Deripaska to acquire a majority stake in Ingosstrakh are at a standstill.

"We will continue the work initiated by Antoine Bernheim, who led a policy of diversification internationally while consolidating the positions of Generali in Italy", explains the "Echos" Vincent Bolloré, Vice-President of the insurer since Saturday. For the businessman breton, shareholder influence of Mediobanca, his mentor "made out to be, moving and dignified". "He came then to the Board of directors who stood up to applaud him", he says. After having blown hot and cold, Antoine Bernheim is resolved to accept the Presidency of honour are proposed. "I know not what it means, he told shareholders. But after forty years of collaboration, I prefer to maintain a link with the company ... with the desire to make available to me.

Saturday day will eventually only reserved a little surprise. Cesare Geronzi, that passes the Presidency of Mediobanca to Generali, will be finally surrounded three Vice-Chairmen, and not two as originally planned. In addition to Vincent Bolloré and Alberto Nagel, the Managing Director of Mediobanca, entrepreneur of MGB Francesco Gaetano Caltagirone, 2 shareholder, also accesses this rank.

"First day of school".

The duo Giovanni Perissinotto-Sergio Balbinot retains operational commands of the group, the first becoming Director-General, the second taking in hand all the insurance business. As Cesare Geronzi, it is now "the first day of school in Trieste": "I don't know about the insurance, but I am ready to learn many things," he admitted to the press. It has in any case strongly denied the assumption of a merger between Generali and Mediobanca, and the prospect of a capital increase, thus distinguished from Antoine Bernheim.