Roland Dumas has been many things in his lifeResistance fighter, lawyer, politician, art collector, Foreign Minister and, most recently, president of Frances highest tribunal. But last week, as the silver-haired ex-barrister faced charges that he had pressured a state-owned oil company to hire his mistress and lived grandly off her income, Dumas played a role he had never imagined: defendant.
Along with his ex-lover Christine Deviers-Joncour and five other defendants, Dumas, 78, stands accused of abusing company funds. The prosecution claims that in 1989 Dumas used his influence as Foreign Minister to win a sinecure position at Elf Aquitaine for...
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