Karachi: hearings and Hortefeux Cope?

16 Jul

Counsel for the families of victims of the attack in Karachi on Monday asked the hearing of Jean-Francois Cope and Hortefeux after a newspaper article about their alleged links with an intermediary in arms contracts, Ziad Takkiedine at the heart of investigations by magistrates in Paris.

The information website publishes photos of Mediapart Ziad Takkiedine with the two men, one of the show in August 2003 with their wives before the yacht of businessman and one of Jean-Francois Cope in the pool of the villa of Ziad Takieddine. According to the site, Ziad Takieddine took over several trips to Jean-Francois Cope and his wife, especially in Lebanon in October 2003 when the current head of the UMP was Secretary of State for Relations with Parliament. Jean-Francois Cope acknowledged to the site have been invited as part of “strictly friendly relations” with Ziad Takieddine and Hortefeux said he went “once or twice at home.”

“I ask the hearing of MM. Cope, Hortefeux and Charon and their wives by the judge and the judges Trévidic Van Ruymbeke and the Loire,” said the lawyer for the families of victims of the attack in Karachi, Me Olivier Morice.

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