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.
VOA: standard.2009.10.30
Charles Pasqua, a former interior minister, deplores French pandering, as he sees it, to America.