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International Herald Tribune (Free subscription) | yesterday
... Many of the leftist militants fled to France, benefiting from a policy instituted under President François Mitterrand of accepting them if they renounced their extremist pasts.But over the past years conservative French governments have moved away from Mitterrand's policy.Sarkozy's government said in June that Petrella would be extradited, but asked Prime Minister Silvio Berlusconi...
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France24 (Free subscription) | yesterday
... 1990s under an offer of asylum extended to former leftist militants by then Socialist president Francois Mitterrand, provided they renounced their stance. The Red Brigades (Brigate Rosse in Italian), a Marxist-Leninist group formed in the 1970s, sought to create a revolutionary state through armed struggle. Among their most notorious actions was the kidnap and murder of Italy's former...
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Mail & Guardian (Free subscription) | 10/11/2008
The eldest son of late president Francois Mitterrand, an Israeli-Russian billionaire trying to become Jerusalem's mayor, a former interior minister and a novelist who specialises in crime thrillers are among 42 people implicated in the trafficking of weapons worth $791-million to a country which at the time was subject to an international arms embargo.According to a 486-page indictment...
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IOL (Free subscription) | 10/07/2008
The son of former French president Francois Mitterrand, an Israeli-Russian billionaire and a tycoon with ties to Arizona's jet set are among the headliners as 42 defendants, accused in a web of trafficked arms to Angola, money laundering and kickbacks, got on trial in Paris.
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France24 (Free subscription) | 10/07/2008
More than 40 French personalities suspected of illegal arms appeared in a Paris court over the so-called "Angolagate" scandal. The son of former French President François Mitterrand attracted much of the attention.
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findingDulcinea (Free subscription) | 10/08/2008
... characters ranging from a French presidential hopeful to a Chinese opera singer.” Jean-Christophe Mitterrand, 61, son of the former French president François Mitterrand and former African affairs adviser, is charged with helping to organize the arms-for-oil deals. Mitterrand reputedly connected Dos Santos with “Russian-born Israeli billionaire Arcadi Gaydamak, 56, and...
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San Diego Union (Free subscription) | 10/07/2008
... the 1990s. Both deny breaking the law. Other suspects include the son of former French President Francois Mitterrand, Jean-Christophe Mitterrand, and a host of political heavyweights. Most are accused of taking bribes from a company Falcone ran in exchange for political and commercial favors. A lawyer representing Angola, Francis Teitgen, argued that the investigation jeopardized...
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The Telegraph (Free subscription) | 10/06/2008
The father of the owner of Portsmouth Football Club and the son of the late French president François Mitterrand are among 42 people who have gone on trial in Paris accused of involvement in France's "Angolagate" armsforoil scandal.
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France24 (Free subscription) | 10/06/2008
The much-awaited “Angolagate” trial opens on Monday in Paris. High-profile French names, including Jean-Christophe Mitterrand (pictured), are accused of receiving kickbacks for helping a businessman clinch illegal arms-for-oil deals with Angola.
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New Zealand Herald (Free subscription) | 10/07/2008
Society's big guns go on trial in arms case Page 1 of 2 4:00AM Wednesday Oct 08, 2008Jean-Christophe Mitterrand. Photo / APPARIS - The son of a former French President, an Israeli-Russian billionaire and a tycoon with ties to Arizona's jet set were among the headliners yesterday as 42 defendants went on trial in Paris, accused in a worldwide web of trafficked arms to Angola, money laundering...
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International Herald Tribune (Free subscription) | 10/06/2008
Mitterrand's son and a former interior minister are charged with illegal transfer of Russian weapons during the civil war.
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Scotsman.com (Free subscription) | 10/07/2008
Prosecutors allege that the two key suspects – French businessman Pierre Falcone and Arkady Gaydamak, an Israeli tycoon based in France at the time – organised the sale of Russian arms to Angola from 1993 to 2000, during its civil war, for a total of about £455 million, in breach of French government rules.The other suspects, including Jean-Christophe Mitterrand, the son of former president...
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News Scotsman (Free subscription) | 10/07/2008
Prosecutors allege that the two key suspects – French businessman Pierre Falcone and Arkady Gaydamak, an Israeli tycoon based in France at the time – organised the sale of Russian arms to Angola from 1993 to 2000, during its civil war, for a total of about £455 million, in breach of French government rules.The other suspects, including Jean-Christophe Mitterrand, the son of former president...
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Blogging for a free world (Free subscription) | 10/06/2008
... case went to the pinnacle of power in France, starting with a nod from the son of then-President Francois Mitterrand, and growing into a tangle of laundered money and parallel diplomacy that left a stain on France’s relations with Africa and on the country’s reputation in the global arms market. Jean-Christophe Mitterrand and 41 other defendants feature in the climax of what...
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Financial Time (Free subscription) | 10/06/2008
Jacques Attali, an advisor to France's President Nicolas Sarkozy, Jean-Christophe Mitterrand, son of former President François Mitterrand, Charles Pasqua, a former interior minister and the Israeli politician Arkadi Gaydamak are among those accused of helping to facilitate $790m (€576m) of arms sales to Angola between 1993-98.
