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...late french President François Mitterrand was criticized for the regal manner in which he occupied his office, the activities of his eldest son also seem characteristic of a royal family - of the dysfunctional kind. Just nine months after his release from provisional detention for suspected involvement in illegal arms trafficking, Jean-Christophe Mitterrand, in a new book, exonerates himself not only of those charges but also of his life in general. In Mémoire Meurtrie (Battered Memory), Mitterrand fils, 54, casts himself as - what else? - a victim, first of a hard, cynical family, and then of outsiders...
...autobiography (Plon; 216 pages), Jean-Christophe Mitterrand argues that his father?s political ambitions determined his own fate. Despite the leftist credentials of his progressive parents - the socialist Mitterrand had married Danielle Gouze, who founded the human-rights group France Libertés - it?s difficult to imagine a familial environment more rigidly bourgeois than the one Jean-Christophe describes. The two Mitterrand boys weren?t encouraged to take part in any significant conversations and rarely dined with their parents, who were "not the sort to embrace or touch," as Jean-Christophe puts it. Communication was so formal that...
...editor and owner of the English-language Pakistani newspaper Frontier Post, to death for drug trafficking; in Islamabad. Reporters Sans Frontieres has denounced the verdict, saying it was "more for his critical coverage of Anti-Narcotics Force activities than for supposed drug trafficking." INVESTIGATION DROPPED, Against JEAN-CHRISTOPHE MITTERRAND, 54, son of the late French President FranCois Mitterrand, for procedural violations; in Paris. Mitterrand was investigated in connection with the sale of $600 million worth of arms to the Angolan government...
...last month to six months in jail on corruption charges, said Employment Minister Elisabeth Guigou and Foreign Minister Hubert Védrine knew about illicit payments to secure the purchase of a German oil refinery for Elf. Guigou and Védrine, former presidential advisers to François Mitterrand, denied the allegations...
...billion sale went through in 1991, generating a $6.43 million commission for Deviers-Joncour. Dumas claims that he always opposed the deal, fearing it would trouble relations with China, but that President Fran?ois Mitterrand overruled him. Though the Taiwan affair was central to the investigation, prosecutors have excluded it from the current trial. Reason: addressing the frigate sale could cause the whole case to be thrown out?under French law, only a special Justice Court of the Republic has jurisdiction to try a senior government official for acts related to his functions...