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JACQUES CHIRAC ORDERED TO STAND TRIAL FOR CORRUPTION.  “Already, the mere fact of 76-year-old Chirac…
JACQUES CHIRAC ORDERED TO STAND TRIAL FOR CORRUPTION. “Already, the mere fact of 76-year-old Chirac…
JACQUES CHIRAC ORDERED TO STAND TRIAL FOR CORRUPTION. “Already, the mere fact of 76-year-old Chirac’s being investigated has been a humiliating coda to his four-decade political career. On top of that, one of Chirac’s former prime ministers is on trial in a separate case. ...
France's Jacques Chirac ordered to stand trial
France's Jacques Chirac ordered to stand trial
news.yahoo.com — PARIS A French judge ordered former President Jacques Chirac to stand trial on embezzlement charges predating his... presidency a case that could mark the first time a former leader of modern France is forced to defend himself in court. Chirac is to be ... (more) France's Jacques Chirac ordered to stand trial
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Another Weasel Goes on Trial: (Pardon my schadenfreude)
GayPatriot — ... of two of our allies, France and Germany, to support that good man’s commitment to enforcing numerous United Nations resolutions which Iraq had violated. Well, when Jacques Chirac, the man who served as President of France for the better part of W’s tenure in the White House stepped down in 2007, our relations with the Gallic nation quickly improved.  The problem was not the American President, but the French one. Now, that perfidious Parisian has been ordered to stand trial for corruption.  Pardon my schadenfreude.

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