Marc Perelman interviews Alain Richard, Former Defence Minister; Nicolas Dhuicq, UMP MP; Pierre Conesa, Former Defence Ministry Official; and Philippe Vasset, Editor in Chief, Intelligence Online.
Marc Perelman interviews Alain Richard, Former Defence Minister; Nicolas Dhuicq, UMP MP; Pierre Conesa, Former Defence Ministry Official; and Philippe Vasset, Editor in Chief, Intelligence Online.
Charles Pasqua, who was sentenced to a year in prison for his role in Angolagate, has called on the French authorities to waive the “secret défense”, by which sensitive evidence is kept secret. FRANCE 24 asked an expert to explain.
Charles Pasqua, a former interior minister who was sentenced to a year in prison for his role in the 'Angolagate' arms trafficking case, has urged the French authorities to declassify sensitive documents he says will clarify his role in the affair.
After being sentenced to jail, former Prime Minister Charles Pasqua asked State secrets to be declassified. He says that doing so it will be obvious that high profile politicians knew of the arms trafficking between France and Angola.
French authorities have come under pressure to say what they knew about the illegal sale of arms to Angola in the 1990s after a Paris court slapped jail terms and stiff fines on leading members of the French political and business establishment.
Charles Pasqua, a former French interior minister, says he will appeal his prison sentence announced by a Paris court Tuesday in the 'Angolagate' case. His appeal, he said, will involve a request to lift state secrets on illegal arms sales.
82-year-old French senator and former interior minister Charles Pasqua described as “incomprehensible” his one-year prison sentence for his role in an arms trafficking scheme to Angola in the 1990s. He plans to appeal the ruling.
The son of former French president François Mitterrand, Jean-Christophe, and Senator Charles Pasqua (pictured), a former French interior minister, are among those convicted by a Paris court in the "Angolagate" arms-to-Africa trial.
Some 42 politicians, businessmen and members of the Parisian elite are to be sentenced Tuesday for trafficking arms worth 790 million dollars to Angola in the 1990s.
