"an Israeli arms dealer.... billionaire"
As with all dirty, criminal things Israel, this will disappear down the Zionist MSM rabbit hole, never to be heard of again.
"Chirac formally charged with embezzlement; French inquiry into abuses of power expands" by Edward Cody, Washington Post | October 31, 2009
PARIS - Retired President Jacques Chirac was formally charged with embezzlement yesterday, joining a growing list of sitting and former senior French officials accused of abusing power to raise political funds or further their careers.
The malfeasance cases - also involving Dominique de Villepin, former prime minister, and Charles Pasqua, former interior minister, among others - have pulled back a curtain on the back rooms of French politics, depicting powerful figures engaging in a mix of high finance, arms marketing, dirty tricks, and personal vendettas in Paris.
Pasqua, 82, a combative senator who battled German occupation troops as a teenager, was convicted Tuesday of peddling influence to an Israeli arms dealer and sentenced to a year of hard time. Since then, he has called on the government to release classified files on French arms sales abroad and urged Chirac to “assume his responsibilities’’ in the case of clandestine weapons sales to Angola in the 1990s arranged by a slick French businessman and the Israeli billionaire....
Yeah, WHAT IS HIS NAME, huh?
Confirmations of a long-anchored public perception that corruption is rife in France’s corridors of power.
That's what happens when Zionist take over your government.
Against that background, political figures from the left as well as the right questioned whether it was a wise idea to prosecute Chirac, 76, the first former or sitting president of France’s Fifth Republic to face such criminal charges....
Protecting their own self-interested asses?
Segolene Royal, the Socialist candidate for president in 2007, said the former president had a right to peace and quiet in his retirement and suggested hauling him before a judge at this point “is not good for France’s image, even if he deserves it.’’
So it WOULD HAVE BEEN a GOOD THING to LET HITLER retire, right?
This woman lost to Sarkozy because she traveled to Israel and defended Palestinians and Lebanese.
Silly girl!
Xavier Bertrand, who heads President Nicolas Sarkozy’s Union for a Popular Movement, which descended from Chirac’s neo-Gaullist political party, said that “it is not useful to go back on things again and again.’’
Yeah, let WAR LOOTERS or WAR CRIMINALS ROAM FREE!
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After six weeks of courtroom drama featuring a would-be Lebanese spy, a hoodwinked French intelligence officer and a rack of histrionic lawyers, judges said they would hand down verdicts in January....
We shall see if the Globe follows up -- maybe.
If they start charging for stories, forget it.
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