Probe into Le Pen WWII remark
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France's Justice Ministry orders an inquiry into Jean-Marie Le Pen's alleged claims about wartime Nazi occupation.
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PARIS Interior Minister Dominique de Villepin of France said Sunday that he was unable to confirm the authenticity of a statement attributed to a militant group called the Islamic Army in Iraq that said it was releasing two French hostages, on condition
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"I have just lived through ... moments that were not agreeable, but I know that the truth will come out"  Investigators searched the office of former Prime Minister Dominique de Villepin on Friday, a day after looking through his home as part of a probe trying to determine who was behind a political smear campaign, a police official said.The investigation arose from an attempt a few years ago to use false accusations of secret bank accounts to taint then Interior Minister Nicolas Sarkozy, a political rival of Villepin who this spring was elected France's president.Investigative Judges Jean-Marie d'Huy and Henri Pons and police from an investigation unit took part in the search of Villepin's office, said the police official, who agreed to discuss the case only if not quoted by name. Read more
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Dominic de Villepin says he will be formally investigated over an alleged smear campaign against President Sarkozy.
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Marine Le Pen, the heir apparent of France's far-right National Front, on Monday distanced herself from remarks by a senior party official that cast doubt on the scope of the Holocaust.
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French far-right leader Jean-Marie Le Pen says he is having problems getting endorsement to run for president.
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France's justice minister wants to know why someone sent her a severed finger in the mail, a ministry spokesman said Monday.
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American novelist Jonathan Littell, whose award-winning, 900-page World War II opus is written in French, has been granted French nationality.Comment
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Q: First the Schlesinger report, then the Fay report came out as well. Both of those reports at least somewhat critical of the secretary of defense and his office.
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CONVICTED French Nazi collaborator Maurice Papon asked to be buried wearing his Legion d'Honneur medal for services to France, causing fresh controversy after his death.Comment
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Jacques Chirac, the former French president, was today being questioned by a judge over a party financing scandal dating back to when he was the mayor of Paris.
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The Nazi occupation of France was not particularly brutal, French far-right leader Jean-Marie Le Pen was quoted as saying.
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Reply by M. Jean-Pierre Raffarin, Prime Minister, to a question in the National Assembly.
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Filed under: General - site admin @ 9:29 am From the Scotsman . The lede: Long-standing rumours that the former French president Jacques Chirac holds a secret multi-million-euro bank account in Japan appear to ... via Austin Bay Blog
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The abstruse French writer is popping up everywhere these days- in movies, TV, even newspapers. Is he trying to tell us something?
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The 'Clearstream affair' implicates President Chirac and Prime Minister Villepin in a smear campaign.
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Jean-Marie Le Pen may have a reputation for prejudice, but that doesn't deter his party's supporters among the disgruntled children of immigrants