abstract:Charles Pasqua (born 18 April 1927) is a French businessman and Gaullist politician. He was Interior Minister from 1986 to 1988, under Jacques Chirac's cohabitation government, and also from 1993 to 1995, under the government of Edouard Balladur.
A formerinteriorminister, Charles Pasqua, was this weeksentenced toayearin prison (and a suspended sentence of twoyears) for involvement in armstrafficking to Angola.
Two of Chirac's former prime ministers, Alain Juppe and Dominique de Villepin, have both stood trial on separate charges, while ex-interior minister Charles Pasqua was sentenced to prison in a third trial that ended this week.
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CharlesPasqua, a former interior minister, deplores French pandering, as he sees it, to America.