An industrialist and the central figure of the plot. He discovers his wife's affair and orchestrates a fake blackmail operation under the alias Louis Berthier to frame her lover. After covering up the accidental death by burying the body in a factory wall, he is ultimately exposed when his wife finds his passport and accuses him of murder in her suicide note.
Jacques actively seeks to ruin Yves's life through a calculated blackmail trap.
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