Topic: Jacques Chirac
Chris Lloyd seeks a little political correctness and takes The Northern Echo Editor and a Tory guest for a mid-day meal at The County in Aycliffe...
I am ready." These few words, slipped into a speech that ran for nearly 90 minutes, summed up the message François Hollande tried to convey Sunday...
Shamed former French leader Jacques Chirac was found guilty of corruption and given a suspended jail sentence on Thursday, becoming France's first ex-president to be convicted for his crimes.The 79-year-old statesman, who was excused from court on medical grounds, was ...
PARIS (Reuters) - A judge found former French president Jacques Chirac guilty on Thursday of misusing public funds, making him the country's first head of state to be convicted since Nazi collaborator Marshal Philippe Petain in 1945.Chirac, 79, was absent from ...
French judges are to rule Thursday in the unprecedented corruption case against aged ex-leader Jacques Chirac, the first time a former French president has faced charges in court.The 79-year-old, president from 1995 to 2007, is facing conflict of interest, abuse of ...
An advisor to the French president on Africa, admitted to police he was "mistaken" in naming Senegal's president and his son as being involved in a dirty cash scandal, his lawyer said Monday.Eric Dupond-Moretti told AFP that his client, Robert ...
PARIS (Reuters) - Former French president Jacques Chirac gave an impassioned defense of his morals on Friday in a statement read out by a lawyer during his trial over the misuse of public funds when he was mayor of Paris in the 1990s ...
PARIS (Reuters) - The trial of former French president Jacques Chirac for misuse of public funds is heading for likely dismissal, with even the prosecution calling for the 78-year-old to be discharged, in a case which has provoked a row about judicial independence ...
One of the benefits of being president of France must be that it keeps you out of jail.. . Jacques Chirac managed to avoid being put on trial for...
Emmanuel Dunand/AFP/Getty Images. Dominique Strauss-Kahn is seen at Manhattan Criminal Court.. . When I first heard that Dominique Strauss-Kahn —...
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Russian Prime Minister Vladimir Putin, right, and former French President Jacques Chirac ...AP News - -
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FILE - Nov. 17, 2006 file photo of then French President Jacques Chirac ...AP News - -
Jacques Chirac Bordeaux at dedication for library Mollat 11-20-2009
Jacques Chirac Bordeaux at dedication for library Mollat 11-20-2009 photo by LAUCHAS ...Globe Photos -
