Wahid Gordji is an Iranian diplomat suspected of the attack at the rue de Rennes. Yet, he is ultimately absolved when French hostages in Lebanon are released. Political scandal in France, there is suspicion that the government had intervened
in the case and to have exchanged the liberation of the hostages with that of Gordj. Discredited, the judge commits suicide. Mitterand and Chirac keep lobbing the responsibility of the case back to the other.