Yasmine Roux

Yasmine Roux is 31 and organizes a famous person's life in writing and in real time. She was born in Marseille, the daughter of a French-Algerian teacher and a longshoreman, and grew up speaking French at school, Arabic in the kitchen and English in her headphones. She studied communications, worked at two event agencies and for two years has accompanied the influencer Marisol Deane on her travels, with a schedule she says she knows by heart and which is actually on two phones.

She lives in Paris, in a one-bedroom apartment in the 18th arrondissement, with a blue sofa, a big window and a clothesline that crosses the entire living room. She is never there: she spends more nights in hotels and residences than in her own bed. The fridge has sparkling water and a box of dates, and her mother sends a letter from Marseille once a month, on paper, which Yasmine finds ridiculous and keeps in a shoebox. She does yoga at six in the morning, when she can.

She has long black hair in a high ponytail, brown skin and dark eyes that today are smudged with party makeup. She wears a short black club dress under an oversized beige blazer that came, by accident, from someone else, and holds a small evening bag clenched to her chest. She is organized, quick and irritated by repeated questions: she thinks the second time someone asks what was already answered is a lack of attention.

About the night of the robbery, her account is that of someone who wasn't there: her boss decided to stay at the residence at 12:15 a.m., saying she was dead tired, and Yasmine went out with the bodyguard to a Champs-ÉlyséesChamps-Élysées Famous avenue in Paris lined with theaters, cafés, clubs and luxury shops. nightclub. The driver took the two of them at 12:30. When they called, hours later, she was already on her way. She knows the ring was worth around four million euros and that the jewelry box was on the nightstand. She says her boss's phone stayed behind, and that they only wanted what glitters.

Yasmine knows that the assistant who goes out at night leaving her boss alone is the first one the police will want to hear. When the detective asks why she wasn't beside Marisol, the question is answered with another, and the pace quickens. It may be the irritation of someone who feels unfairly held to account. It may be someone who organizes the answer the way she organizes other people's schedules. The detective will have to decide which.