Jack Lang “proposes” his resignation from the presidency of the Arab World Institute; Jean-Noël Barrot “takes note” of this determination | EUROtoday

Pressured to resign from all sides after the revelations of his hyperlinks with Jeffrey Epstein, Jack Lang introduced, Saturday February 7, that he ” propose “ his resignation from the presidency of the Arab World Institute (IMA) to the Minister of Foreign Affairs, Jean-Noël Barrot, in a letter consulted by Agence France-Presse. The Minister of Foreign Affairs, Jean-Noël Barrot mentioned, WorldSaturday night “take note” of this determination.

The former minister of tradition, who has headed the IMA since 2013, was summoned to the Quai d’Orsay on Sunday on the request of Emmanuel Macron and Sébastien Lecornu, after the revelation of his hyperlinks with the businessman and intercourse felony.

“The current climate, mixing personal attacks, suspicions and amalgamations, all of which are otherwise unfounded, is harmful. It revolts and disgusts me. It can only harm this magnificent institution”deplores Jack Lang in his letter addressed to Mr. Barrot. “In order to preserve the Arab World Institute” and of “to be able to calmly challenge all the accusations which [l]‘assault’the former socialist minister thus proposes to postpone his “resignation at the next extraordinary board of directors, which will also be able to choose my successor in order to avoid any break in continuity”.

Calls for his resignation have multiplied in latest days because the hyperlinks between Jack Lang and Jeffrey Epstein had been delivered to mild with the publication of hundreds of thousands of paperwork on January 30 by the American justice system. If no costs are weighed at this stage towards the previous minister, the point out of his identify 673 instances in exchanges with Jeffrey Epstein and his hyperlinks of curiosity with the American financier have pushed many members of the political class to demand his departure from the IMA.

Earlier within the day on Saturday, Jack Lang mentioned that “the accusations brought against [son] against [étaient] unfounded »from Agence France-Presse (AFP). After declaring on Monday “fully assume (one’s) ties” spent with the American financier, Mr. Lang assured Wednesday that he knew nothing of this man’s felony previous when he met him in the past “around fifteen years” via director Woody Allen. He then formally dominated out resigning, citing his “naivety” confronted with revelations about his previous hyperlinks with Epstein, who died in jail in 2019.

“Unfounded accusations”, in keeping with Jack Lang

Friday night, the PNF, an establishment liable for combating tax fraud, informed AFP that it had opened a preliminary investigation regarding “the facts revealed by Mediapart relating to Caroline and Jack Lang” and their alleged monetary ties to Epstein.

Based on these new “Epstein files”the media reported monetary ties and customary financial pursuits between the Lang household and the financier, convicted in 2008 for utilizing the companies of underage prostitutes and who was charged once more in August 2019 when he died in jail.

On Monday, Caroline Lang resigned as head of a movie producers’ union after revelations about an organization “offshore” which she based in 2016 with the American businessman. Jack Lang, for his half, admitted to having personally solicited the financier to acquire the fee of 57,897 {dollars} to an affiliation for a movie on “Lang-Mitterrand years”.

According to the exchanges exhumed, the 2 males notably negotiated in 2015 the sale between them of a riad in Marrakech. Their correspondence then continued for a number of years. “Dear Jeffrey, (…) your generosity is infinite” Jack Lang reportedly wrote in 2017. “Can I abuse it once more? »he requested once more, earlier than asking the billionaire to move him by automotive to a celebration organized outdoors Paris.