Tuesday February 3, Jack Lang remains to be grasp of his kingdom. He receives The Worldsitting on the couch in his glass-walled workplace on the eighth ground of the Arab World Institute (IMA), the place he has walked each day from the Place des Vosges, simply on the opposite facet of the Seine, for greater than 13 years.
François Mitterrand’s former tradition minister jumped in shock when requested if he deliberate to resign (“What have I done wrong? What legal action is being taken against me? It’s absurd”). The day earlier than, Mediapart revealed the “financial links” between the Langs (the ex-minister and his daughter Caroline) and the American youngster prison Jeffrey Epstein, a businessman with a sprawling community, who died in detention in August 2019.
In the mass of emails revealed on January 30 by the American justice system, the connection between the Langs and Epstein seems to be woven of presents and companies rendered over seven years, till the sexual predator’s arrest in 2019. Ironically, Jack Lang doesn’t deal with the emails, which his entourage prints for him in order that he can annotate them. “He doesn’t have a computer, he has never written a single email with his own hand”confirms his crew on the IMA. He travels everywhere in the world, however would not converse English very properly both.
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