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Diplomacy: France scrambles to avoid its own WikiLeaks fiasco

admin — Thu, 02 Dec 2010 15:10:53 +0000

France’s foreign ministry is tightening security to avoid further scandal after the Wikileaks revelations. Paris’ ambassador to Tehran stresses that French diplomacy ‘will not change’, nor will the diplomats’ ‘psychological portraits’.
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FRANCE: Former PM ‘suspects’ graft in submarine sales scandal

admin — Fri, 26 Nov 2010 04:20:03 +0000

Former French Prime Minister Dominique de Villepin told a court he had “strong suspicions” that French officials received kickbacks from submarines sales, but saw no link in the freeze of kickbacks and a deadly 2002 attack.
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FRANCE: Families sue former French president in Pakistan arms scandal

admin — Sun, 21 Nov 2010 14:20:02 +0000

The relatives of 11 French engineers killed in a 2002 bombing in Pakistan will bring charges against former President Jacques Chirac, claiming he ignored risks of reprisals against French personnel by stopping bribe payments to Pakistani officials.
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FRANCE: Police search Sarkozy party HQ in L’Oreal investigation

admin — Thu, 09 Sep 2010 10:49:30 +0000

UMP party chief Xavier Bertrand (pictured) says that police searched the party headquarters in Paris on Wednesday as part of their ongoing investigation into the alleged involvement of Labour Minister Eric Woerth in the L’Oreal scandal.
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FRANCE: L’Oreal heiress cuts photographer Banier from will

admin — Sat, 28 Aug 2010 20:54:35 +0000

L’Oreal heiress and France’s richest woman, Liliane Bettencourt, has cut her personal friend and celebrity photographer Francois-Marie Banier (photo) out of her will, in the latest chapter of a scandal that has reached to government levels.
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FRANCE: Questioned by police, Labour Minister denies wrongdoing

admin — Thu, 29 Jul 2010 20:16:44 +0000

Scandal-plagued French Labour Minister Eric Woerth denied any wrongdoing or conflict of interest when police questioned him for eight hours Thursday in connection with financial scandals surrounding France’s richest woman, his lawyer said.
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FRANCE: Scandal-plagued labour minister questioned by police

admin — Thu, 29 Jul 2010 14:41:52 +0000

French Labour Minister Eric Woerth was questioned by police investigating the financial affairs of France’s richest woman, l’Oreal heiress Liliane Bettencourt.
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FRANCE: The Bettencourt scandal: Sarkozy and the media face-off

admin — Thu, 22 Jul 2010 16:53:12 +0000

Amid a growing scandal involving Labour Minister Eric Woerth, in which new revelations seemingly appear daily, the French President Nicolas Sarkozy’s already tense relations with the French press are being further strained.
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FRANCE: Police detain L’Oreal quartet for second day as scandal rumbles on

admin — Fri, 16 Jul 2010 07:42:16 +0000

Police detained for a second day fund manager Patrice de Maistre (pictured), a lawyer, society photographer Francois-Marie Banier (pictured) and the manager of a private island linked to Liliane Bettencourt, in a scandal that has shocked France.
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FRANCE: Police arrest four as L’Oreal scandal escalates

admin — Thu, 15 Jul 2010 17:35:19 +0000

French police have detained a financial advisor, lawyer, society photographer and island manager connected to France’s richest woman and L’Oréal heiress Liliane Bettencourt, in the latest chapter in a scandal that has rocked French politics.
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