“Angolagate”: Corruption at the highest levels of French politics | World | Deutsche Welle | 29.10.2009
t is a growing scandal in France, but whether what is being referred to as “Angolagate” will send more politicians to prison depends on the whether judges are given access to the documentary evidence.
Pasqua, already convicted and sentenced, is keen on making sure all the information about the arms deals of the 1990s is brought out in the open.
“I’m calling for the Angola affair to be de-classified,” Paqua said. “Angola first, we can worry about the others later. Why? Because if these documents are declassified we’ll have the proof that what I’m saying is true.”
It that were the case, it would prove that a number of people in the French government were aware of then ilegal arms deals. The French government said on Thursday that it would declassify the documents – if a judge made an official request and if the defense secret commission agreed.
