Yann Piat , born Yannick Mary 12 June 1949 in Saigon ( French Indochina ) and murdered on 25 February 1994 in Hyères (Var ) is a politician French member...
Taiwan frigates scandal (fr) (aka La Fayette scandal)
The story of Taiwan and the Lafayette frigates begins in 1989 when the Taipei government was casting around for a new generation of light warships to join its defensive network against threatened invasion by China.
The favourite was a highly capable...
Angolagate (arms-for-oil scandal)
President José Eduardo dos Santos of Angola
Angolagate, also known as the Mitterrand–Pasqua affair, is an international political scandal over the secret sale and shipment of arms from Central Europe to the government...
The Canard enchaîné satirical newspaper fought to bring to light evidence of alleged corruption during President Jacques Chirac's tenure as mayor of Paris
Jacques Chirac
In the 1980s and 1990s there were, in the Paris region (Île-de-France), multiple instances of alleged and proved political corruption cases, as well as cases of abuse of public money and resources. Almost all involved...
Infected blood scandal
Georgina Dufoix and former boss Laurent Fabius
France's Infected blood scandal began in April 1991 when doctor and journalist Anne-Marie Casteret published an article in the weekly magazine the L'Événement du jeudiproving...
