French Former Foreign Minister Returns Gifted Statues
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Dominique de Villepin presented on Monday to the Ministry of Foreign Affairs two statuettes of Napoleon received in the early 2000s, says France Info. This gesture comes immediately after the revelations about the former minister of the program "Supplement d'investigation", broadcast on 30 April on France 2. A gift financed by the former president BurkinabéL-Former chief of diplomacy, then minister of the Interior and Prime Minister in the 2000s…
The lobbyist Robert Bourgi claimed, in the programme broadcast on France 2, that he had acted as an intermediary to offer the former foreign minister two statuettes of Napoleon, one of which was paid by Blaise Compaoré, then president of Burkina Faso.
Two Napoleon statuettes with an announced value of 125,000 euros are at the heart of a case that pursues the potential candidate in the presidential election of 2027.
Dominique de Villepin returned two statuettes to the Quai d'Orsay after the revelations of Robert Bourgi in "Supplement d'Inquête"
The entourage of the potential candidate in the presidential election of 2027 indicates that the controversial statuettes, which he received in the early 2000s, were returned to the Ministry of Foreign Affairs on Monday.
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