Paris, France (GenevaLunch) – Former Prime Minister of France Dominique de Villepin has been acquitted by a Paris court of plotting to discredit the current president, Nicolas Sarkozy, in a case that saw three other defendants judged guilty.
Sarkozy’s name was found on a list of clients of a bank in Luxembourg, clients allegedly linked to illegal arms sales. It was later established that the list was forged in order to slander Sarkozy during his bitter contest with de Villepin to succeed former President Jacques Chirac.
Posted by Sean Ecker on 28 January 2010 at 16:17 |
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News story, GenevaLunch, 28 January 2010.
Filed under: Politics
Tags: Clearstream, Dominque de Villepin, Jacques Chirac, Nicolas Sarkozy
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January 29th, 2010 at 12:38 pm
Apparently the Parquet has appealed, early this morning. Maybe Villepin shouldn’t have implied so quickly that he was thinking of a new job for 2012!