Privileges, fraud, embezzlement, theft, harassment, pedophilia cases strangled or favoritism. All this almost total impunity.
Based on a hundred stories and some confidential documents Jauvert Vincent, a journalist with L’Observateur, paints a vitriolic portrait of the Foreign Ministry in its book “the hidden face of Quai d’Orsay” (Laffont editions), published on Thursday.
Silver diverted, one to blame arrival this survey on this bitter Ministry adrift starts with Bruno Delaye case. The diplomat is suspected of embezzling nearly 90 000 by leasing 18,000 m² of the Embassy of France he held in Madrid to large corporations, said Le Parisien . In summer 2012, a bill packet is sent anonymously to the Executive Director of the Quai d’Orsay, an investigation is conducted, but does that give birth to reprimand the ambassador.
Cheats for expense reports, stolen works of art from there, Vincent Jauvert pin many other business and evokes diplomats defrauding their expense, stealing works of art deposit or harassing staff. The list is “long” says Le Parisien .
The journalist Obs raises the question of wages and expenses allocated to ambassadors (amounts ranging from 10 000 to 200 000 per year depending on the position). Some are quite mysterious. A diplomat would also told him that “until 1999, it could not have been easier to nibble a few thousand euros each year” .
the pervasiveness of Marie-France Marchand-Baylet Another revelation: the omnipresence of Marie-France Marchand-Baylet, wife of the former Minister Laurent Fabius, who would clearly influenced appointments. For proof, one unfortunate interview it would have prevented an experienced diplomat to have the job she coveted, we learn in Le Parisien .
Far from condemning the Intervention his partner, Laurent Fabius would simply defined the case as an “misunderstanding between women” .
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