Le Monde, February 1, 2011
According to a source familiar with the matter, the former Minister Francois Leotard told the judge Trévidic Marc, who heard Monday, January 31 in the investigation into the attack in Karachi, his conviction of having been tapped after the election of Jacques Chirac in 1995. The former defense minister Edouard Balladur was heard as a witness for several hours by the judge investigating the bombing in May 2002.
The magistrate following the trail of a terrorist attack which was organized in response to discontinuation of payment of commissions, decided by Jacques Chirac in 1995 on contracts concluded by the Balladur government. The successor of Francois Leotard of Defense Charles Millon, had admitted in court in November that members of the cabinet of Mr. Leotard had been tapped by the General Directorate for External Security (DGSE). But noted that "[his] knowledge" Mr. Leotard was not among them.
SUSPICIONS OF RÉTROCOMMISSIONS
Mr. Chirac had appointed certain services under the microscope to study the contracts concluded by the previous government, including Mr. Leotard. These audits have aroused suspicions of "rétrocommissions" into French makers. The judge in charge of another aspect of the case in Karachi, Renaud Van Ruymbeke, had asked in November to the Prime Minister, Francois Fillon, to declassify the content of plays performed by the DGSE, but he had refused, after a notice unfavorable to the advisory panel of defense secrets National (CCSDN).
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