I don't know if it's available outside France. But Netflix has made a documentary in french about Marco Mouly "Les Rois de l'arnaque" / "Kings of the scam". The least we can say is that he's a real piece of work.
Most of the people involved are such caricatures of sephard that you wouldn't put them in a work of fiction.
The man is a clown, boasts, lies, but at some point you can also see the fear in his eyes when his daughter is 15 minutes late because he fears for the lives of his loved ones.
It's really the story of a couple of small-time VAT fraudsters from a poor Parisian suburb who stumbled onto something way too big for them and got caught out by some real gangsters.