French lie generator

A French company has launched a service providing alibis for people who "need a little freedom" from the confines of matrimonial bliss. Alibila, which bills itself as "your alibi generator", will make telephone calls, devise invitations and even create restaurant or hotel bills to corroborate any story.

Prices for the service start at 19 Euros (£12) for a simple phone call and rise to 50 Euro (£34) for a "class 2 alibi", which includes all the documentation, phone calls and back up needed to safely indulge in a "passing adventure".

The company is France's first agency for adulterers who don't want their flings to be discovered. It provides alibis for a range of other situations, but admits its clients are mostly men.

One of Alibila's first clients was a man who needed an alibi that would allow him to join his mistress on a tropical island, without making his wife suspicious. The company provided a fake wedding invitation from a distant cousin et voila, alibi in place.

The agency will arrange fake events for its clients, but stops short of forging documents, director Regine Mourizard told Le Parisien. "We provide for our clients only those elements necessary to help them organise their private lies", he said.