HoneySuckleDreams Posted December 15, 2011 Share Posted December 15, 2011 http://www.guardian.co.uk/world/2011/dec/15/jacques-chirac-guilty-corruption I particularly like the bit that he couldn't take part in the trial because he suffers severe memory lapses.I thought that was a major pre-requisite for being a politician, french or otherwise. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
NormanH Posted December 15, 2011 Share Posted December 15, 2011 The French accounthttp://www.lemonde.fr/societe/article/2011/12/15/verdict-attendu-dans-l-affaire-des-emplois-fictifs-de-la-ville-de-paris_1618652_3224.html#ens_id=1618653 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
idun Posted December 15, 2011 Share Posted December 15, 2011 And there was me thinking that this had been pushed under the carpet, it was so long since it had been in the news. Ah well, what a surprise, not. So what will they do with him I wonder, taule, I doubt it. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
SC Posted December 15, 2011 Share Posted December 15, 2011 Jacques Chirac so wanted everyone to like him, and this has probably hit him very hard.I like him as a character, mostly because he was the first french person that I could understand 100% - when he gave a presidential address. He always spoke so slowly and with such long pauses that you got the impression he thought that his audience were all as thick as me."Chers compatriotes.........."I read somewhere that he has always "vousvoyed" Bernadette as a mark of his respect for her. I like that too.Steve Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Patf Posted December 15, 2011 Share Posted December 15, 2011 I didn't think he was as bad as some of the other top politicians.Ah well, I suppose it will prévenir les autres. [;-)] Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
idun Posted December 15, 2011 Share Posted December 15, 2011 And I always heard that he didn't get on with this wife and that is why he vousvoyed, and I don't suppose any of us will know the truth of that. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
breizh Posted December 15, 2011 Share Posted December 15, 2011 At last they got him for something. Pity they didn't get him for 125K a month private grocery bill paid in cash, no receipts, every month exactly the same amount. Or the "public" housing contracts. Or the private security contracts fulfilled by the Police. Ghost votes, gerrymandering, misuse of public services................... Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
woolybanana Posted December 15, 2011 Share Posted December 15, 2011 If they had got Chirac for that, they would have had to go for every politician still alive Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Frecossais Posted December 15, 2011 Share Posted December 15, 2011 Apparently his daughter thought it unfair to try him on account of his age and condition, (BBC lunchtime news today) Bit like the aged war criminals really. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
mint Posted December 15, 2011 Share Posted December 15, 2011 2 years suspended sentence or something equally derisory, I think.Blimey, I wouldn't mind going for a spot of corruption myself if that's all the punishment I'm going to get! Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
idun Posted December 15, 2011 Share Posted December 15, 2011 Fillon said tonight that it was too long after les faits, thirty years. It isn't as if everyone didn't know all that time ago. There were so many bad things happening and so much cash being dished out and no one did anything....... and why would they, they'd have their envelopes stopped and I suppose they rather liked them. Would that all politicans lived honest lives, what sort of world would we have then? ........ I can still dream and only in my dreams[blink] Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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