Le Monde, 9 February 2011
Judge Marc Trévidic wrote to the lawyer Jacques Chirac, Jean Veil, to determine the conditions under which the former president could be heard as part of the investigation into the attack in Karachi, said a source close to the investigation. Counsel for the families of victims, Mr. Olivier Morice, recently requested the hearing of the former president after former Defense Minister, Francois Leotard, said the arrest took commissions on the sales contract submarines to Pakistan could be a cause of the attack.
J. terrorism sent a letter to counsel for the former president to consider the conditions in which Jacques Chirac could be heard as a witness, the source said, confirming a report in Le Parisien. "Everything will be in the deepest respect for the presidential office," he told the judge his side Trévidic Europe 1 on Wednesday, refusing to confirm he had asked to hear Jacques Chirac. Mr Chirac's lawyer, Jean Veil, could not be reached Wednesday morning.
In June 2007, Jacques Chirac had refused to testify before the judges hearing the Clearstream affair, saying he could not "be compelled to give evidence on facts or made known during his mandate." Late 2010, former Prime Minister Dominique de Villepin, Secretary General of the Elysee Palace when Mr Chirac's decision to suspend the commission had ruled before the judge Trévidic any connection with the attack and assured that the decision of the committees had been decided because of suspicions about rétrocommissions some arms contracts.
Mr. Leotard, Minister Edouard Balladur's government from the sale to Pakistan in 1994 Agosta submarine, told the judge that Trévidic the attack that killed 11 employees of the Directorate of Naval Construction ( DCN) could be due to the cessation of the commissions on this contract and breach of promise not to sell submarines India.
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