Who is Jean-Claude Pautot, ex-robber turned actor, arrested after a cocaine seizure?

Published on January 09, 2023 at 11:29

We saw him on the Cannes red carpet in May 2022. Jean-Claude Pautot was present alongside Louis Garrel, during the Cannes Film Festival, to present the film “The Innocent”. This weekend, “Le Journal du Dimanche” reported that the 66-year-old man had been arrested at the end of December in Malaga, due to a link with international drug trafficking. The cargo was in a sailboat off the Azores and in the Paris region. “The French anti-narcotics office and the Spanish investigation services followed this traffic which circulated between Venezuela and Europe via Martinique”, specifies “Le Point”. For now, a dozen people have been arrested in connection with this major seizure. The role of actor Jean-Claude Pautot in this affair has not yet been clarified.

Jean-Claude Pautot, an ex-robber turned artist

A figure of organized crime, Jean-Claude Pautot seemed to have finished with his past as a robber. During his life, he was convicted many times. He thus spent fifteen years of his life on the run and spent more than twenty-five years behind bars. It was in the early 2010s, in prison, that he discovered a passion for painting, even exhibiting his works in a Parisian gallery. His incredible past as a thug was also told in a two-part comic strip, “Face au mur” (2017). He then turned to the cinema. In “The Innocent”, directed by Louis Garrel, Jean-Claude Pautot embodies a former prisoner. A compositional role.