tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-146835892024-03-05T18:47:26.383-10:00jpk updatejean-pascal couraud | media | tahiti | french polynesia |Avaiki Niushttp://www.blogger.com/profile/01914794693184508245noreply@blogger.comBlogger56125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-14683589.post-84290865618785518542012-09-25T18:25:00.003-10:002012-09-25T18:25:43.957-10:00JPK committee to hold AGM in October...<br />
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are pleased to announce the holding of a general meeting of the Committee to
support the search for truth about the disappearance of Jean-Pascal Couraud,
which will be held Thursday, October 4, 2012 at 5:30 p.m. at the hotel
INTERCONTINENTAL BEACHCOMBER, "Tipani" Room to deliberate on the
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- Update on the ongoing investigation and perspectives in coming months</span><span style="font-size: 13.5pt; line-height: 115%;"><br />
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Contributions to legal fees</span><span style="font-size: 13.5pt; line-height: 115%;"><br />
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Administrative and financial report</span><span style="font-size: 13.5pt; line-height: 115%;"><br />
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the occasion of this meeting, details will be provided on all possible measures
and information disseminated via the attached press release, posted today on
our website www.soutienjpk.org which remains the preferred communication tool
for the support Committee, including for those who wish to support the
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<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif; font-size: x-small;">“Committee supporting the search for truth about the disappearance of
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<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">Numerous investigations, hearings and confrontations were
made and still need to be pursued in order to specify and verify the evidence
and statements collected on testimony by former GIP agents and their relatives
recounting his abduction and murder by
employees of the territorial fleet; About Vetea Guilloux, the origin of
our filing a complaint and as reported by several independent sources,
including the police.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">> Several dossiers of the scandal are on file that have
expanded the scope of the investigation since 2008, that identify a possible
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<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">> Tahara'a affair: Jean-Pascal Couraud is among the
co-plaintiffs on the basis of a claim made to this effect by Mr Desarcis,
implemented three months after his death in March 1998 - Flosse conviction for
conflict of interest in 2006;<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">> Notes on file
Rondot recovered during the Clearstream investigation, tracing elements of the
internal investigation on behalf of the DGSE, about a Japanese account
belonging to Jacques Chirac; these notes relate to talks among Chirac /
Villepin / Rondot on the subject;<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">Burglary by the services of the Presidency in August 1997 to
study Mr. Desarcis, deeply engaged at the time in various cases involving
Flosse; he was also a lawyer and associate with Jean-Pascal C. on various
affairs; condemnation of Director of Cabinet and Chief of Staff to the
President of the [French] Polynesian government - it is in this affair that 13
of the 14 pages of "Dessarcis notes" about Flosse are on record (the 14th page is supposed to contain
detailed information on the bank accounts but has never been recovered);<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">Considerable resources have been committed by the judge to
verify the veracity of information found in a note written in early 1997 and
held by Jean-Pascal Couraud, mentioning possible financial transfers from
Polynesia to Japan for the ultimate benefit of Jaques Chirac, the most
significant elements proving the existence of a Japanese account opened in the
name of the former President of the French Republic, from hearings under X,
several [anonymous] agents of the DGSE, now available in the folder.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">Among the various affairs cited in this note is also mention
of regular monthly cash payments by Hubert Haddad to Flosse, in the OPT affair
that will be heard in the court of Papeete in late September 2012, as revealed
today; this shows the danger that Jean-Pascal could represent at the time to
powers that be, it may also be noted that the police and State services also
had a copy of this note near the end of 1997.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">The inquiry to establish and verify with certainty the conditions
under which surveillance was done on Jean-Pascal by the "Service Studies
and Documentation (SED)", under the authority of the President Polynesia,
in November and December 1997, until his death, the chain of responsibilities
related to the organization of this surveillance has been clarified. The
involvement of officers of the state (including DGSE) in the creation and
operation of the SED is now clearly established, with the avowed objective of
monitoring political opponents of the President of the Government of French
Polynesia.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">At this stage, the evidence and documents collected allow us
to consider identification of those responsible; the executors and contractors,
whose acts led to the death of Jean-pascal COURAUD. Strong presumptions
obviously lean towards different people who at the time worked more or less
directly under the authority of the President of the Government of French
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<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">De très nombreuses investigations, auditions et
confrontations ont été réalisées et doivent encore être poursuivies afin de
préciser et vérifier les témoignages et déclarations recueillis portant sur les
dires d’agent de l’ex-GIP et de leurs proches racontant l’enlèvement et le
meurtre par des employés de la flottille administrative ; les propos de Vetea
Guilloux, à l’origine du dépôt de notre plainte, sont ainsi rapportés par
plusieurs autres sources indépendantes, dont des gendarmes.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">· Plusieurs
dossiers d’affaires annexes ont été
versés au dossier qui ont permis d’élargir le champ de l’enquête depuis l’année
2008, afin d’identifier un mobile possible : </span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">affaire Tahara’a : Jean-Pascal C. figure parmi les
co-plaignants sur la base d’un mandat donné à cet effet à Maître Desarcis, mis
en œuvre 3 mois après sa disparition en mars 1998 - condamnation de Gaston
Flosse pour prise illégale d’intérêt en
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<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;"> notes du général
Rondot récupérées lors de l’enquête Clearstream versées au dossier, retraçant
les éléments de l’enquête interne DGSE sur un compte japonais qui aurait existé
au nom de J. Chirac ; ces notes relatent des entretiens Chirac / Villepin /
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<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;"> cambriolage par
les services de la Présidence en août 1997 de l’étude de Maître Desarcis, très
engagé à l’époque dans diverses affaires impliquant Gaston Flosse ; il était
aussi l’avocat et collaborateur de Jean-Pascal C. sur divers dossiers ;
condamnation du directeur de cabinet et du chef de cabinet du président du gouvernement
polynésien – c’est par cette affaire que 13 des 14 pages de la « note Dessarcis
» sur Gaston Flosse ont été versées au dossier (la 14ème page censée contenir
des informations précises sur des comptes bancaires n’a jamais pu être
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<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">· Des moyens importants ont été engagés
par le juge pour vérifier la véracité de certaines informations trouvées dans
cette note rédigée début 1997 et que détenait Jean-Pascal C. mentionnant des
virements financiers possibles de Polynésie vers le Japon au bénéfice final de
Jaques Chirac ; les éléments les plus significatifs attestant de l’existence
d’un compte japonais ouvert au nom de l’ancien président de la république française proviennent des auditions sous X de
plusieurs agents de la DGSE, aujourd’hui disponibles dans le dossier.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">· Parmi les
diverses affaires mentionnées dans cette note figure également la mention des
versements mensuels réguliers d’argent liquide par Hubert Haddad à Gaston
Flosse, révélés aujourd’hui dans l’affaire OPT qui sera jugée au tribunal de
Papeete fin septembre 2012 ; ceci montre bien le danger que pouvait représenter
Jean-Pascal à l’époque pour le pouvoir en place ; on peut noter que la
gendarmerie et les services de l’Etat disposait également d’une copie de cette
note dés la fin d’année 1997.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">· L’enquête
a permis d’établir et de vérifier de manière certaine les conditions dans
lesquelles s’est effectuée la filature de Jean-Pascal par le « service d’études
et de documentation (SED) » placée sous
l’autorité du président de la Polynésie, en novembre et décembre 1997, jusqu’à
sa disparition ; la chaîne de responsabilités liée à l’organisation de ces
filatures a été précisée. L’implication d’agents des services de l’état
(notamment la DGSE) dans la création et le fonctionnement du SED est clairement
établie aujourd’hui, avec un objectif avoué de surveillance des opposants
politiques du président du gouvernement de la Polynésie.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;"> A ce stade,
les témoignages et documents recueillis permettent d’envisager l’identification
des responsables, exécutants et donneurs d’ordre, des actes ayant conduits à la
mort de Jean-pascal COURAUD. De fortes présomptions vont évidemment en
direction de différentes personnes qui à l’époque travaillaient plus ou moins directement
sous l’autorité du président du gouvernement de Polynésie française</span></div>
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d’instruction devrait rendre ses conclusions au cours des prochains mois.</span></div>
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<i>> an open letter to President of French Polynesia, Oscar Manutahi Temaru, <br /><b>15th December 2011 </b></i></div>
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<i>Kia orana Mr. President,</i></div>
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Fourteen years ago today, a journalist named JPK disappeared from the island of Tahiti.</div>
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To this day, top secret documents remain on file, linked with this journalist, but denied to investigatory judges by a national security commission. </div>
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Similar documents also link JPK with a separate investigation into Clearstream, the world's largest bank, a bank for banks. At no time since the era of nuclear testing have people French Polynesia come closer to the raw power of the French state, a savage mafia "melieu" involving intelligence services, judiciary and diplomacy. </div>
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Disappearance of Jean-Pascal Couraud on 15th December 1997 saw the loss of an opportunity to expose hidden back-channels of global finance. </div>
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A "secret, and secondary, banking system" as it was described next door in the Cook Islands, by a former prime minister, Sir Geoffrey Henry, during the 1995 Letters of Guarantee scandal. No one believed him then. Few believed JPK later.</div>
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A third person met with disbelief is Denis Robert, a man who exposed Clearstream as rotten to the core, reporting on "false assets" of some USD $1.5 trillion. </div>
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That was in 2001, a year now famous not for that expose, but for the New York start of a so-called War On Terror. </div>
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Over the years, at the same time as children, women and men were dying in Afghanistan and Iraq, Clearstream bank kept its legal department busy, filing more than 30 different defamation claims against Denis Robert, serving him with more 600 writs alleging malicious wrongdoing. </div>
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Robert kept busy too, writing and releasing The Black Box, and, when that was also pulled from shelves by nervous publishers, retreating to the sanctuary of the arts, writing text for a graphic novel titled The Affair of Affairs.</div>
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All three books are of enormous significance to Tahiti because the resulting court cases were only cleared this year, a full decade after the first book of Robert was published. Significant because your Supreme Court stared down the world's biggest bank, telling Clearstream that regardless of the veracity of claims contained in the Robert books, all that concerned the court was whether he had, as an investigative journalist, acted with ethics and according to generally accepted practice. </div>
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They found that he had. All 30+ defamation cases, and 600 writs, dismissed. As Robert said, it was > </div>
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" A victory for journalism. " </div>
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But the victory was much, much bigger than just journalism, and here lays the true significance for Tahiti Nui.</div>
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Bigger by far is the victory for democracy, and its reinforcment of recognition for the functions and role of the Fourth Estate. This year also sees the 50th anniversary for the mostly well-regarded Colombia Journalism Review. Their anniversary slogan ></div>
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" Strong Press . Strong Democracy ."</div>
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This slogan might seem a bit ... rich ... coming from a nation that gave us the Global Financial Crisis, for which your country is paying dearly. That hosts secret finance centres so vast Time magazine reports the United States as the most corrupt country in the entire world. A country seeking extradition of Julians Assange, with presidential candidates publicly calling for prosecution or assassination of the Wikileaks founder. Perhaps a more accurate anniversary slogan for CJR might be ></div>
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"Weak Press. Weak Democracy."</div>
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Therein lies the point of this open letter. I am writing this as an open letter, not to show off a la Anglais. </div>
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But to report having failed since 1998 to open up links between Tahiti news media workers and their colleagues across the independent Pacific. I did try to present a few proposals, that get occasional official and private interest, but still, after six years, no progress. I am writing an open letter because I did try and be diplomatic and make suggestions to people close with you, and other leaders ... but failed. </div>
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And now this, these closures. </div>
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As leader of French Polynesia, Mr President, your party has clearly and transparently stated aspirations towards self-governance, perhaps on the Cook Islands model, but more likely full independence. </div>
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Anyone can understand your administration wanting to cut costs and would, if in your position, understand also the frustration of dealing with a biased press, even losing patience. Just as has happened among governments in the United Kingdom, the United States and Australia, with news media. </div>
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Yet, your administration is stripping itself of an institution that the Supreme Court of France has just recently confirmed as of strategic importance, rightfully beyond the powers of even the biggest multinational threat. </div>
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Murdoch may rightfully have his troubles with politicians globally, but it does not mean that BBC News should be in danger of shutting down. Nor is the PBS in the US facing closure. In Australia, the government slammed the door in Murdoch's face, hard, awarding the contract for Australia's world service, the ABN, back to their own state broadcaster, ABC, "permanently."</div>
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So seeing Murdoch named and shamed, and the News of the World forced to close its doors ... it might seem like a good idea for French Polynesia too - let's close down Tahiti Nui Television and Agence Tahiti Presse as well ! Especially the latter, for its historic bias against Tavini Huiraatira, remember? Back in the bad old days of Systeme Flosse?</div>
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Those days are over now, Mr President. </div>
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I remember the delerium of the night of "Taui", when the people of Tahiti Nui confirmed you as their leader, not long after that huge, huge protest. To walk away, now, from that kind of journalist heritage risks insulting that memory. Of Jean-Pascal Couraud, and all his colleagues who worked alongside him, fighting word-for-word with the entire panalopy of the French state, sometimes, literally, hand-to-hand. </div>
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JPK lost a fight, 14 years ago today, a professional battle turned deadly personal, but, like Reimana knew before, he, too, lost his battle, there was still a news war to be waged, media freedom campaigns to be won. Yet your own municipality broadcaster Te Reo Tefana is a sad shadow of its former self, stripped of resources, long lost as a global influencer. </div>
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In working towards a newly independent nation, Te Ao Maohi Ou, your presidency must urgently reconsider its reasons for closing down two pillars of your country's Fourth Estate. Days like this I remember the old cliche, "Don't get into Journalism if you want to stay Friends with anyone", but as a journalist I must ask this question, it's my job, sorry about it.</div>
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Feb 4th 2010 | PARIS | From <em style="margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-left: 0pt; margin-right: 0pt; margin-top: 0pt; padding-bottom: 0pt; padding-left: 0pt; padding-right: 0pt; padding-top: 0pt;">The Economist</em> print edition</div>
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HOW independent is the French judicial system? That question has been thrown into sharp relief by the public prosecutor’s decision to appeal against the acquittal on January 28th of Dominique de Villepin, a former prime minister, in the “Clearstream” smear-campaign trial. One of the civil plaintiffs in the case was Nicolas Sarkozy, who has long claimed that Mr de Villepin was out to thwart his political career. Mr de Villepin evidently failed. Mr Sarkozy claimed soon after the acquittal that he accepted the verdict—and yet the public prosecutor promptly decided to appeal. Ever since, rumours have swirled of plots and counter-plots.</div>
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Mr de Villepin was quick to cry foul. The decision to appeal, he claimed, had been taken “during a meeting at the Elysée”, Mr Sarkozy’s official residence. He knew, he told French television breezily, because he had himself served there for seven years as chief of staff to President Jacques Chirac. “I know the state, I know the public service,” he said. “There isn’t a shadow of a doubt.”</div>
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This week Jean-Claude Marin, the Paris public prosecutor, struck back. He had received no instruction from the Elysée, he insisted. His appeal was a matter of “conscience”, based on a close reading of the 327-page judgment. The judges had not only found the other two main suspects guilty, but also sentenced them to jail terms. It remains unclear who orchestrated their actions. For his part, Claude Guéant, Mr Sarkozy’s chief of staff, said that Mr Marin had neither asked for advice from the Elysée nor received any instruction.</div>
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Yet many rum elements to the affair remain. Why did Mr Sarkozy say that he would not appeal, when in criminal trials it is up to the public prosecutor? Why, if not for effect, did Mr Marin announce his appeal on live breakfast radio? (He said, deadpan, that this was because the appeals office closed at 5pm the previous day.) Why did public prosecutors in 2008 consider that there was not enough evidence to send Mr de Villepin to court, only to change their minds a few months later? As <em style="margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-left: 0pt; margin-right: 0pt; margin-top: 0pt; padding-bottom: 0pt; padding-left: 0pt; padding-right: 0pt; padding-top: 0pt;">Le Monde</em>, a leftish newspaper, said, it all leaves “the suspicion of manipulation”, whatever the reality.</div>
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The suspicion hangs in particular over the public prosecutors, who report directly to the justice ministry. The role of the Paris public prosecutor, who is appointed by presidential decree and is in charge of the biggest affairs of state, is considered to be highly political. The incumbent tends to change with the party in power. Nominees often have links to political parties. When the Gaullist Mr Chirac was first elected in 1995, for instance, he dismissed the Paris public prosecutor appointed by the Socialists. Influence is usually subtle and deniable. “The political authorities’ great trick, in affairs of crucial concern to them, is to give a trusted judiciary the illusion of freedom, even while ‘prompting’ the right answer,” says Philippe Bilger, the advocate-general in Paris.</div>
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Such worries also explain the unease over Mr Sarkozy’s plan to abolish investigating judges, who have sweeping powers to collect evidence, question witnesses and decide to send suspects for trial. Their robust independence has led to a few miscarriages of justice, but it has also exposed murky dealings among the political and business elite. The government wants to transfer investigative powers to the public prosecutors and turn investigative judges into supervisors, with powers to block or authorise an investigation.</div>
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The danger is that this will strengthen the powers of the prosecutors but do nothing to reinforce their independence. Even Mr Marin has argued that there may be a problem. “If appearances are against us to this degree, we need to look again at the status of the prosecution,” he said this week. Outsiders have similar reservations. In a parliamentary resolution last year, the Council of Europe declared that the abolition of French investigative judges was “widely suspected of being part of an attempt by the political authorities to increase their influence on the handling of sensitive cases.”</div>
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<span style="font-size: 85%;"><span style="font-family: 'Courier New';">On Friday at the </span><a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Palais_de_Justice,_Paris" id="ut90" style="color: #5e8054;" target="_blank" title="wikipedia | palais de justice | paris | english"><span style="font-family: 'Courier New';">Palais de Justice</span></a><span style="font-family: 'Courier New';">, the </span><a href="http://fr.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jean-Pascal_Couraud" id="o-jp" style="color: #5e8054;" target="_blank" title="jpk | vetea guilloux"><span style="font-family: 'Courier New';">Vetea Guilloux affair</span></a><span style="font-family: 'Courier New';">, deferred from 10 April 2009, was again adjourned, this time to 29 January 2010, without argument against. </span></span><br />
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<span style="font-size: 85%;"><span style="font-family: 'Courier New';">The only legal representative at the hearing was for </span><a href="http://www.google.co.nz/search?hl=en&rlz=1C1GGLS_enNZ302NZ322&q=wikipedia+jpk+Quinquis&btnG=Search&meta=" id="r.e7" style="color: #5e8054;" target="_blank" title="google | jpk quinquis links | french"><span style="font-family: 'Courier New';">Mr. Quinquis</span></a><span style="font-family: 'Courier New';">, and said that, therefore, while not appearing on behalf of the other party, an </span><i><a href="http://legal-dictionary.thefreedictionary.com/A+Priori" id="nda-" style="color: #5e8054;" target="_blank" title="a priori"><span style="font-family: 'Courier New';">a priori</span></a></i><span style="font-family: 'Courier New';"> application for adjournment should still be accepted by the courts, even when unopposed.</span></span><br />
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<span style="font-size: 85%;"><span style="font-family: 'Courier New';">In 2004, he publicly accused fellow GIP operatives Tino Mara and Tutu Manate of having 'disappeared' former Pape'ete editor </span><a href="http://www.google.co.nz/search?q=%22jean+pascal+couraud%22&pov=115713741614129725763&usg=__PufAXfS3dUJSTbm0nJlE6gEAV48=&hl=en" id="ctpp" style="color: #5e8054;" target="_blank" title="google | jean pascal couraud"><span style="font-family: 'Courier New';">Jean Pascal Couraud</span></a><span style="font-family: 'Courier New';">. Vetea Guilloux at first admitted to lying, then retracted his admission.</span></span><br />
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<span style="font-size: 85%;"><span style="font-family: 'Courier New';">Sentenced on first appearance, he appealed, but the Supreme Court quashed a decision from the High Court, because the sentence exceeded what the penal code allows for such cases. Relocated to Paris, the second appeal case is forced to wait for instruction from Justice Redonnet, in the main JPK case, before they can continue. </span></span><br />
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<span style="font-size: 85%;"><span style="font-family: 'Courier New';">Persisting all this time in his allegations, Vetea Guilloux briefly explained his retraction at the start of the case as being because of a "weight on his shoulders" from the justice system.</span></span><br />
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<span style="font-size: 85%;"><span style="background-color: white;"><span style="font-family: 'Courier New';">Friday at the courthouse in Paris, the case Vetea Guilloux, who had been referred to this date April 10 last, was again returned, this time to January 29, 2010 and without argument. </span></span><span style="font-family: 'Courier New';">The representative of Mr. Quinquis only at the hearing, and therefore not representative of the other party said that a priori, the direction should still be completed.</span></span><br />
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<span style="font-size: 85%;"><span style="font-family: 'Courier New';">Examination of this part of the record JPK, where judges will decide on the facts of false accusation and wrongful termination against Vetea Guilloux, has again been postponed. The latter was accused in 2004, former IPTF Tino Manate Mara and Tutu to have removed the journalist Jean-Pascal Couraud. Vetea Guilloux had admitted to lying, then retracted.</span></span><br />
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<span style="font-size: 85%;"><span style="font-family: 'Courier New';">Sentenced in immediate appearance, he was again on appeal, but the Court of Cassation quashed the decision of the court of second instance, because the sentence exceeded what the penal code provides for such facts.Relocated to Paris, the second trial on appeal is forced to wait for instructions from the judge in the case Redonnet JPK before they occur. Vetea Guilloux, it persists for all time in his accusations, explaining briefly to have retracted to the top of the case, because of the pressure on his shoulders by the court.</span></span><br />
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<span style="font-size: 85%;"><span style="font-size: 85%;">Vendredi au palais de justice de Paris, l’affaire Vetea Guilloux, qui avait été renvoyée à cette date le 10 avril dernier, a de nouveau été renvoyée, cette fois au 29 janvier 2010 et sans plaidoirie. La représentante de Me Quinquis, seule à l’audience, et donc sans représentant de l’autre partie, a indiqué qu’a priori, l’instruction devait encore être complétée.</span></span><br />
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Recently fined <a href="http://www.rnzi.com/pages/news.php?op=read&id=47353">1000 euros</a> for defaming a Pape'ete prosecutor, Tahiti Pacifique publisher Alex du Prel has blasted back with a front cover expose of secret dealings during the Flosse years.<br />
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The phrase "<em>barbouzes</em>" is slang similar to "spooks" while "<em>filatures, surveillances, enregistrements</em>" refers to shadowing, surveillance and recordings.<br />
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September caps a rough few months for the 18 year old magazine, one of the few independents left in the Pacific.<br />
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Earlier, a Paris court, 18,000 kilometres from Pape'ete, had found in favour of a complaint from a French prosecutor representing Tahiti. It is one of the few successful attempts at defamation proceedings, du Prel receiving dozens of legal - and illegal - threats over the years.<br />
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Their decision came despite earlier decisions by the Consultative Commission on National Defence Secrets to not release three documents from the Directorate General of External Security, French equivalent of the CIA. Seized during a historic raid on DGSE by an investigating justice, the documents first had to be screened by the independent panel for national security considerations.<br />
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Without the documents, however, it is impossible to prove whether Tahiti Pacifique was right or wrong. As Reporters Sans Frontiers asks, was "a journalist silenced in order to protect a French politician, or several of them?” <br />
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RSF described the fine as "extremely regrettable. Defence secrecy has again been used to prevent the truth from emerging, in this case the truth about a journalist’s murder. We fear the recent progress in the Couraud murder investigation will go no further and that the authorities have decided to bury the case.”<br />
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Meantime, there has been a second request to lift the diplomatic immunity held by Flosse as a senator for French Polynesia, following expose of kickbacks from an advertising agency contracted to the Office of Post and Telecommunications.<br />
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. . .Avaiki Niushttp://www.blogger.com/profile/01914794693184508245noreply@blogger.com0Île-de-France, France48.814098527355725 2.34008789062547.909769027355722 0.47241189062500011 49.718428027355728 4.2077638906249994tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-14683589.post-86236912802057177042009-05-27T01:06:00.000-10:002009-05-27T01:07:03.757-10:00Papeete prosecutor pushes press case in Paris<div class="post-header-line-1"></div> <div class="post-body entry-content"> <p class="western"><b>. . .</b></p> <p class="western"><b>NEWS</b></p> <div class="western"><b>Papeete prosecutor pushes press case in Paris</b></div> <div> </div> <p class="western">A cartoon features in a criminal defamation case pursued by French authorities against a long time Tahiti editor and his magazine.</p> <p class="western">"True justice, like the can-can, only happens in Paris," reads the cartoon, of a justice official pushing court files to the sides, including one marked JPK.</p> <p class="western">Former Papeete editor, Jean Pascal Couraud, known as JPK, disappeared in 1997 with police marking his dossier "suicide."</p> <p class="western">JUNE DECISION</p> <p class="western">Allegations were made in 2004 by a secret agent that, instead of suicide, Couraud had been abducted by secret agents, tortured and killed.</p> <p class="western">Hearings on 19<sup>th</sup> May into the defamation claim relate to a January 2007 cover of Tahiti Pacifique magazine headlined, "<u><a href="http://www.tahiti-pacifique.com/archivesTPM/18909.html"><font color="#5e8054">Yes, JPK was assassinated</font></a></u>."</p> <p class="western">A decision is due 23 June 2009, reports <u><a href="http://www.rue89.com/2009/05/20/affaire-jpk-le-procureur-de-tahiti-en-arroseur-arrose"><font color="#5e8054">Rue89</font></a></u>.</p> <p class="western">"SURPRISE WITNESS"</p> <p class="western">More recently, in April this year, Tahiti Pacifique reported that a "surprise witness" had appeared before the JPK investigating magistrate, Jean-François Redonnet.</p> <p class="western">Claiming to have seen a white van being used in the 1997 kidnapping of Jean-Pascal Couraud, the witness was quoted as saying the abduction was "of such violence and speed that I was shocked". </p> <p class="western">Anti-corruption website Bakchich – French for baksheesh or bribery – reported that Tahiti Pacifique editor Alex du Prel pointed widespread allegations of assassination at GIP, a presidential security operation, <i>Groupement d'intervention de la Polynésie</i>.</p> <p class="western">CRIMINAL DEFAMATION</p> <p class="western">Pape'ete prosecutor Jean Bianconi lodged the case in the 17<sup>th</sup> criminal chamber of Paris superior courts, <i>17e chambre correctionnelle du Tribunal de grande instance de Paris, </i>said to specialise in press cases. </p> <p class="western">Naming himself, his deputy and a judge formerly in charge of the JPK case as complainants, Bianconi filed the case in <u><a href="http://www.tahiti-pacifique.com/libertepresse/article10-07.html"><font color="#5e8054">October 2007</font></a></u>, some ten months after publication. </p> <p class="western">The case was filed in Paris "on the sly," claims du Prel in a letter to colleagues on 17 May 2009. Du Prel testified <u><a href="http://www.rnzi.com/pages/news.php?op=read&id=46661"><font color="#5e8054">via video link</font></a></u> according to Radio New Zealand International with Agence Tahiti Presse <u><a href="http://www.tahitipresse.pf/index.cfm?snav=see&presse=27589"><font color="#5e8054">reporting damages</font></a></u> sought of 5,000 euros for each complainant, for a total of €15,000. </p> <p class="western">GODFATHER</p> <p class="western">Like other French media, Tahiti Pacifique extensively reported links between the disappearance of Couraud and allegations of corruption involving former French Polynesian president Gaston Flosse, and former French president Jacques Chirac, godfather to his grandson.</p> <p class="western">In the January 2007 story, Bianconi is not named but objected to the following paragraph:</p> <blockquote dir="ltr" style="MARGIN-RIGHT: 0px"> <p class="western">"… certainly the image of impartiality of justice in Tahiti, like the police, is rough; disastrous for a functioning democracy. Some judges of the Papeete judiciary also admit a 'tense' and 'low morale at the Palace [of Justice].' Is this because a senior judge might think you invested in a 'divine mission' to orchestrate a scheme (in which some judges agree to participate) to protect by all means the former GIP and its leader, Rere Puputauki, who, if convicted, could endanger the senator Flosse, which in turn could endanger 'the highest levels of the State?' …"</p> </blockquote> <p class="western">"STAGGERING"</p> <div>Du Prel criticised the holding of the hearing in Paris, some 16,000 kilometres from his home office <u><a href="http://www.tahitipresse.pf/index.cfm?snav=see&presse=27589"><font color="#5e8054">in Moorea</font></a></u>.</div> <div> </div> <p class="western" style="MARGIN-LEFT: 0.5in">"Imagine the outcry in France if the prosecutor assigned the editor of a Paris magazine before the criminal court in Papeete, on the pretext that three copies would be sold in Tahiti. This is a process used in the past by a vicious few to take revenge against book publishers, never the press."</p> <div>Defending him, Claire Doubliez sought to supply context by outlining what Rue89 describes as a "staggering array" of cases involving delays to justice in Polynesia.</div> <div> </div> <div>BEYOND</div> <div> </div> <p class="western"> <div>"The background to this case is the fact that the functioning of the judiciary in Papeete is, obviously, a concern," said Doubliez in a statement to the court. </div> <p class="western"> <div>"I think the case goes beyond the scope of defamation," she said. </div> <div> </div> <div> "The prosecution held that a single passage was defamatory. For others, this was not the case," said Doubliez , adding it was the professional journalistic duty of Alex du Prel to denounce justice procedures not normal at the time of the article.</div> <div> </div> <p class="western"> <div>"SMOOTH"</div> <div> </div> <div> </div> <p class="western">In the national assembly in Paris, opposition Socialist parliamentarian René Dosiere attacked the defamation claim when it was lodged last year.</p> <div> </div> <div> </div> <p class="western" style="MARGIN-LEFT: 0.5in">"Justice, in Polynesia, in this case the prosecutor, is much more ready to attack the director of an independent newspaper, Tahiti Pacific Magazine, that continues to denounce fraud and the silence of justice in Polynesia, stressing that justice is smooth for the powerful and hard for the weak. Thus, in Polynesia, most importantly, justice is not to tackle corruption, but those who expose corruption."</p> <div> </div> <div> </div> <p class="western">Bianconi has been widely linked with former president Jacques Chirac, justice officials well known for openly supporting one political side or another, as is also common in another republican system, America.</p> <div> </div> <p class="western">MAFIA</p> <div> </div> <p class="western">French media note that Bianconi came from presiding over an appeal court in Aix-en-Provence, accepting an apparent demotion to the prosecutor's office at a time when Flosse was facing awkward questions over payments to ghost workers.</p> <div> </div> <p class="western">Bianconi is due to leave Pape'ete next month.</p> <div> </div> <p class="western">Like many others throughout French foreign services, Bianconi hails from Corsica, an island infamous as the birthplace of the French mafia, operating mostly out of Marseille since the second world war. </p> <div> </div> <p class="western">"MILIEU"</p> <div> </div> <p class="western">Similar to the Italian mafia and American secret services during and after the war, numerous media and official investigations have drawn links between the French mafia – or "<u><a href="http://www.google.com/search?hl=en&safe=off&rls=com.microsoft:en-nz&num=100&newwindow=1&ei=O9MVSpawE8KSkAX-6In8DA&sa=X&oi=spell&resnum=1&ct=result&cd=1&q=mafia+corsica+MILIEU&spell=1"><font color="#5e8054">Milieu</font></a></u>" – and the French equivalent of the CIA.</p> <div> </div> <p class="western">DGSE stands for the Directorate General of External Security. Training of DGSE agents included a base in <u><a href="http://maps.google.fr/maps?f=q&source=s_q&hl=fr&geocode=&q=dgse+corse&sll=47.15984,2.988281&sspn=15.365653,28.125&ie=UTF8&ll=42.006448,9.093933&spn=1.049021,1.757813&z=9"><font color="#5e8054">Corsica</font></a></u>.</p> <div> </div> <div> </div> <p class="western">In 1997, two agents retired several months before JPK disappeared to head the setting up of a surveillance section within the Flosse government, 'retirement' also being a term common among secret services on top secret missions.</p> <div> </div> <p class="western">. . .</p></p></p></p></div> Avaiki Niushttp://www.blogger.com/profile/01914794693184508245noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-14683589.post-27413941981833722882009-03-02T00:18:00.002-10:002009-03-02T00:39:04.482-10:00sarkozy tightens screws on search warrants<span style="font-family:verdana;">. . .<br /><br />NEWS<br /><br />The Sarkozy administration has moved to further shut down active investigations in France.<br /><br />A draft law covering the 2009 – 2014 programme of military spending requires judges to request permission for searches that involve defence secrets, reports Le Monde newspaper.<br /><br />The bill provides for restricting access to locations “likely to harbour elements covered by the national defence" and "local private companies involved in research or defence".<br /><br />Currently, judges can go where they want and ask the Advisory Committee on National Defence Secrets (CCSDN) for declassification of documents, decided on a case-by-case basis.<br /><br />Under the new bill, the Ministry of Defence would issue search warrants.<br /><br />If the ministry gives the green light, the magistrate must make an appointment with the president of the CCSDN to accompany searches in these places.<br /><br />The magistrate is obliged under the bill to give written reasons for the search, and the documents sought.<br /><br />If adopted, this process would remove the element of surprise which judges have now when they move to conduct searches on their own decision, in all places classified.<br /><br />"This is a new step towards regaining control of judges by political powers," says Laurent Bedouet, Secretary General of the Union of Judges (USM majority).<br /><br />"The government rolled out the heavy artillery to impede or neutralize the work of some judges who are still able to investigate troublesome cases", said the Union of Magistrates.<br /><br />According to the union, the bill was “designed in response to investigations that have caused turmoil in the political and military milieu: investigating the Taiwan frigates, a search warrant on the presidency for the Borrel case, and, especially, one for the Clearstream Affair at the headquarters of the DGSE (Directorate General for External Security).”<br /><br />LINK<br /><br /></span><a href="http://www.lemonde.fr/societe/article/2009/02/27/des-magistrats-s-insurgent-contre-le-projet-d-extension-du-secret-defense_1161132_3224.html"><span style="font-family:verdana;">Des magistrats s'insurgent contre le projet d'extension du secret-défense</span></a><span style="font-family:verdana;"> . . . </span>Avaiki Niushttp://www.blogger.com/profile/01914794693184508245noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-14683589.post-27540834112323771062009-02-16T14:56:00.014-10:002009-02-16T15:52:27.542-10:00fake letter distracts from chirac no go<span style="font-family: Georgia, "Times New Roman", serif;"><br /></span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Georgia, "Times New Roman", serif;">A French weekly has attacked the credibility of a document at the centre of <i>l’affaire JPK,</i> a four year old investigation into alleged assassination of a former editor from Tahiti.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Georgia, "Times New Roman", serif;"><i>Journal de Dimanche</i> declared a letter about the asassination of Jean-Pascal Couraud was a “fake.”</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Georgia, "Times New Roman", serif;">Attributed to Vetea Cadousteau, the letter is still undergoing tests for authenticity.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Georgia, "Times New Roman", serif;">Cadousteau was former spy found dead in 2006, in a shallow valley river during a pig hunting trip. French media reports his body had socks on, but no shoes.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Georgia, "Times New Roman", serif;">Police from DNIF, the National Directorate of Financial Investigations, found the letter during a September 2008 search at the home of Gaston Flosse, former president of French Polynesia.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Georgia, "Times New Roman", serif;">The letter was in a drawer of his home office bureau.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Georgia, "Times New Roman", serif;">“I know that I will be killed for what I know” it reads.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Georgia, "Times New Roman", serif;">Last month, Flosse said he was lodging defamation suits against local and French media for their reportage of allegations made in the letter about the disappearance of Jean-Couraud, known as JPK.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Georgia, "Times New Roman", serif;">Allegations link his disappearance with a dossier of documents showing Flosse had enabled payments of millions of dollars to an account held in Japan, in the name of former president of France, Jacques Chirac. </span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Georgia, "Times New Roman", serif;">Unsigned, undated, the seven page letter of testimony closely matches evidence given in late 2004 by another former spy, Vetea Guilloux – that Couraud was abducted, beaten, tortured at sea, then dumped into waters some 2,500 metres deep.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Georgia, "Times New Roman", serif;">According to reports in <i>Journal de Dimanche</i>, that’s because a police officer wrote the letter, not Cadousteau.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Georgia, "Times New Roman", serif;">An investigative journalist at the Sunday paper, Marie-Christine Tabet said a Tahiti policeman Georges Pater admitted he wrote the letter to put pressure on a former president of French Polynesia, Gaston Flosse.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Georgia, "Times New Roman", serif;">Described as a “boy of scant enthusiasm”, Officer Pater visited Guilloux in prison on several occasions, asking and reasking questions about alleged assassination of JPK, claims Tabet.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Georgia, "Times New Roman", serif;">Pater is quoted as telling Guilloux: “I’ve been commissioned by Sarkozy to clean Chiraciens from the whole island,” and that his “testimony on the l’affaire JPK would help.”</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Georgia, "Times New Roman", serif;">So far, <i>Journal de Dimanche</i> is only one of a handful of French media to mention the police officer.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Georgia, "Times New Roman", serif;">Tabet, for one, appears convinced that Officer Pater is telling the truth, and goes a step further, claiming his evidence is a set-back for a troubled investigation. </span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Georgia, "Times New Roman", serif;">“Back to square one, and the poison of doubt”, <span style="color: blue;"><u><a href="http://www.lejdd.fr/cmc/politique/200907/jpk-la-lettre-accusant-flosse-est-un-faux_187115.html">she wrote</a></u></span>.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Georgia, "Times New Roman", serif;">Ordinarily, that kind of language might be considered a little strange for a journalist covering an investigation yet to make an official finding on the disappearance of a former colleague.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Georgia, "Times New Roman", serif;">Justice Jean-François Redonnet ordered the seven page letter undergo a second round of testing.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Georgia, "Times New Roman", serif;">Doubts over the letter and the ability of the examining magistrate to question Chirac are just two of the challenges facing this inquiry.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Georgia, "Times New Roman", serif;">Real or not, the letter distracts attention from continued refusal by Jacques Chirac, former president of France, to answer questions from an investigatory magistrate looking into the disappearance of JPK.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Georgia, "Times New Roman", serif;">Through his lawyers, Chirac told another weekly newspaper, <i>Le Carnard Enchaine</i>, that he did not have to answer any questions because presidential immunity still applies to actions taken when he was in office. </span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Georgia, "Times New Roman", serif;">This is a variation on an earlier theme, that Chirac enjoyed presidential immunity as long as he was still in office.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Georgia, "Times New Roman", serif;">Before, lawyers claimed Chirac had presidential immunity from investigation because of his office. </span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Georgia, "Times New Roman", serif;">Now Chirac lawyers are arguing that instead of the office holder, it is the presidential acts themselves that are immune from being questioned by magistrates.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Georgia, "Times New Roman", serif;">Former prime minister Dominique de Villepin was one who did answer questions from Justice Redonnet.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Georgia, "Times New Roman", serif;">He flatly denied that an investigation initiated from his former office uncovered evidence of a bank account in a Japan bank under the name of Chirac.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Georgia, "Times New Roman", serif;">"President Chirac has never had a bank account in Japan," he said earlier this month.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Georgia, "Times New Roman", serif;">Like Chirac, Villepin is no friend of current president, Nicholas Sarkozy, whose administration at first encouraged the JPK inquiry.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Georgia, "Times New Roman", serif;">Few expected Redonnet to arrive on the doorstep of the French spy agency, DGSE, and request to see top secret documentation. Or to order national fraud police to raid the homes and offices of Flosse and Chirac.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Georgia, "Times New Roman", serif;">Some suggest an attack of nerves in Paris might be the reason behind a spate of recent moves to cut back balancing powers of other institutions – namely parliament, justice and media.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Georgia, "Times New Roman", serif;">Sarkozy guilloutined debate in the national assembly. He then overturned 200 years of judicial history by removing investigatory powers from judges.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Georgia, "Times New Roman", serif;">As if that were not enough, Sarkozy also dismissed an independent panel previously in charge of appointing the head of the country’s state broadcasting services. He then signed an edict banning advertising from state TV, leading to alarm among journalists over a loss of independent revenue and management.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Georgia, "Times New Roman", serif;">Independence is a long running concern among French journalists.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Georgia, "Times New Roman", serif;"><i>Journal de Dimanche</i> is an example of this kind of concern, wide ranging controversy starting with a former owner, Robert Hersant, publishing “rabidly” pro-Nazi propaganda during World War II. </span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Georgia, "Times New Roman", serif;">In 1988, it was Groupe Hersant that bought the daily paper edited by Couraud, then fired him for a long series of exposes, scoops, comments and criticism against Flosse.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Georgia, "Times New Roman", serif;">Another such owner is current <i>Journal</i> boss, <span style="color: blue;"><u><a href="http://www.forbes.com/2008/07/01/france-billionaires-arnault-biz-billies-cz_cvz_0701frenchbillies_slide_6.html?thisSpeed=15000">Serge Dassault</a></u></span>, worth some US$10 billion in 2007, ranking 84<sup>th</sup> in a Forbes list of billionaires, with extensive links throughout government and the judiciary.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Georgia, "Times New Roman", serif;">Ten years earlier, in 1998, Dassault had been given a suspended 18 month sentence for bribing Belgium officials with some €4 million to buy arms from his company, prosecutors calling for a €2.2 million fine.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Georgia, "Times New Roman", serif;">Instead, the Court of Cassassation imposed a mere €60,000 fine – barely three percent of the amount sought by prosecutors.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Georgia, "Times New Roman", serif;">An arms merchant, Dassault is no believer in freedoms of the press, despite owning dozens of different media organisations; newspapers, radio and television stations.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Georgia, "Times New Roman", serif;">He explains his approach.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Georgia, "Times New Roman", serif;">“When I meet the editorial team for the first time on a newspaper that I have just bought, <i>I</i> ask permission from journalists to go have a pee. The second time, I take a piss without asking anyone”.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Georgia, "Times New Roman", serif;">“The third time,” he pauses, “I piss on <i>them</i>.”</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Georgia, "Times New Roman", serif;">On another occasion, Dassault said that, “If there were no journalists and no book writers, newspaper publishers would be happy people.”</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Georgia, "Times New Roman", serif;">From such background, it might be possible to get an idea of editorial processes that describe a police officer as “boy”, pass judgement on an official inquiry as “poison”, and declare evidence “fake” even before the inquiry does. </span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Georgia, "Times New Roman", serif;">Quoting a “special correspondent”, Tabet dismisses the “fiery confession” as it “simply replicates the words of Guilloux.”</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Georgia, "Times New Roman", serif;">The paper also labelled JPK a “ghost”, ahead of an admiring profile on Chirac and his efforts to build an instititution in his own name, aimed at human rights and development in the third world.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Georgia, "Times New Roman", serif;">Reports of “fake” testimony in the JPK affair come from the same media group as <i>Elle</i> magazine and <i>Paris Match</i>.</span></div>
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Max Gatti, lawyer for the JPK support committee, said claims of fakery were an attempt to "brainwash" people about the case.<br />
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. . .Avaiki Niushttp://www.blogger.com/profile/01914794693184508245noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-14683589.post-2542858162764150312009-01-31T00:36:00.001-10:002009-01-31T00:36:41.685-10:00flosse says no hasty conclusions<DIV class=western style="MARGIN-BOTTOM: 0in"><FONT face="Corbel, sans-serif"><B>. . .</B></FONT></DIV><br /><DIV class=western style="MARGIN-BOTTOM: 0in"> </DIV><br /><DIV class=western style="MARGIN-BOTTOM: 0in"><FONT face="Corbel, sans-serif"><B>NEWS</B></FONT></DIV><br /><P class=western style="MARGIN-BOTTOM: 0in"><BR></P><br /><P class=western style="MARGIN-BOTTOM: 0in"><FONT face="Corbel, sans-serif"><FONT color=#000000>An undated, hand-written letter outlining the abduction, torture and killing of a former Pape’ete editor was found at the home of a former French Polynesia president.</FONT></FONT></P><br /><P class=western style="MARGIN-BOTTOM: 0in"><BR></P><br /><P class=western style="MARGIN-BOTTOM: 0in"><FONT face="Corbel, sans-serif"><FONT color=#000000>Police officers found the letter in a drawer during a raid on Flosse’s home in September 2008.</FONT></FONT></P><br /><P class=western style="MARGIN-BOTTOM: 0in"><BR></P><br /><P class=western style="MARGIN-BOTTOM: 0in"><FONT face="Corbel, sans-serif"><FONT color=#000000>Details of the find only emerged last month.</FONT></FONT></P><br /><P class=western style="MARGIN-BOTTOM: 0in"><BR></P><br /><P class=western style="MARGIN-BOTTOM: 0in"><FONT face="Corbel, sans-serif"><FONT color=#000000>Gaston Flosse at first refused comment, according to a report from </FONT></FONT><FONT color=#0000ff><U><A href="http://www.google.com/hostednews/afp/article/ALeqM5gELyy80Cjnu7eKT8cc2M6BTDW-RA"><FONT face="Corbel, sans-serif">AFP</FONT></A></U></FONT><FONT face="Corbel, sans-serif"><FONT color=#000000>, later issuing a statement labelling the allegations “scandalous.”</FONT></FONT></P><br /><P class=western style="MARGIN-BOTTOM: 0in"><BR></P><br /><P class=western style="MARGIN-BOTTOM: 0in"><FONT face="Corbel, sans-serif"><FONT color=#000000>Author of the letter is said to be Vetea Cadousteau, a former member of a secret spy cell who died in “very disturbing” circumstances, according to lawyers for a support committee of the editor, Jean-Pascal Couraud.</FONT></FONT></P><br /><P class=western style="MARGIN-BOTTOM: 0in"><BR></P><br /><P class=western style="MARGIN-BOTTOM: 0in"><FONT face="Corbel, sans-serif"><FONT color=#000000>Handwriting analysis of the letter was “inconclusive”, said laywers James Lau and Max Gatti in a statement for </FONT></FONT><FONT color=#0000ff><U><A href="http://www.soutienjpk.org/"><FONT face="Corbel, sans-serif">Soutien JPK</FONT></A></U></FONT><FONT face="Corbel, sans-serif"><FONT color=#000000>.</FONT></FONT></P><br /><P class=western style="MARGIN-BOTTOM: 0in"><BR></P><br /><P class=western style="MARGIN-BOTTOM: 0in"><FONT face="Corbel, sans-serif"><FONT color=#000000>Further testing is needed to confirm the author of the letter of testimony, several pages long.</FONT></FONT></P><br /><P class=western style="MARGIN-BOTTOM: 0in"><BR></P><br /><P class=western style="MARGIN-BOTTOM: 0in"><FONT face="Corbel, sans-serif"><FONT color=#000000>Lawyers for Flosse, a member of the French senate, dismissed the letter as a “set up”, part of a “plot”.</FONT></FONT></P><br /><P class=western style="MARGIN-BOTTOM: 0in"><BR></P><br /><P class=western style="MARGIN-BOTTOM: 0in"><FONT face="Corbel, sans-serif"><FONT color=#000000>The letter claims to explain how Jean-Pascal Couraud was abducted, tortured to force him to confess where he had hidden files and how, when he was already half-drowned, a senior member of the DGSE gave orders to drop his body into 2,000 metres of water, tied to several fishing weights.</FONT></FONT></P><br /><P class=western style="MARGIN-BOTTOM: 0in"><BR></P><br /><P class=western style="MARGIN-BOTTOM: 0in"><FONT face="Corbel, sans-serif"><FONT color=#000000>A few hours after the AFP report, Flosse released a </FONT></FONT><FONT color=#0000ff><U><A href="http://www.tahitipresse.pf/index.cfm?snav=see&presse=26332"><FONT face="Corbel, sans-serif">statement</FONT></A></U></FONT><FONT face="Corbel, sans-serif"><FONT color=#000000> to Agence Tahiti Presse from Fakarava, an outer island 432 kilometres north west of Tahiti.</FONT></FONT></P><br /><P class=western style="MARGIN-BOTTOM: 0in"><BR></P><br /><P class=western style="MARGIN-BOTTOM: 0in"><FONT face="Corbel, sans-serif"><FONT color=#000000>Flosse attacked critics and press for continuing “to speak of kidnapping and murder of Jean-Pascal Couraud when, after more than 10 years since the disappearance of this journalist, nothing has come out to back this up. "</FONT></FONT></P><br /><P class=western style="MARGIN-BOTTOM: 0in"><BR></P><br /><P class=western style="MARGIN-BOTTOM: 0in"><FONT face="Corbel, sans-serif"><FONT color=#000000>In his statement, Flosse said that he was guilty “merely of receiving an anonymous letter, describing alleged revelations about this case, like Oscar Temaru did in 2004, receiving testimony from Vetea Guilloux.”</FONT></FONT></P><br /><P class=western style="MARGIN-BOTTOM: 0in"><BR></P><br /><P class=western style="MARGIN-BOTTOM: 0in"><FONT face="Corbel, sans-serif"><FONT color=#000000>Unlike testimony given to the Temaru administration, Flosse has never publicly referred to the letter.</FONT></FONT></P><br /><P class=western style="MARGIN-BOTTOM: 0in"><BR></P><br /><P class=western style="MARGIN-BOTTOM: 0in"><FONT face="Corbel, sans-serif"><FONT color=#000000>Flosse did not dismiss the new testimony entirely.</FONT></FONT></P><br /><P class=western style="MARGIN-BOTTOM: 0in"><BR></P><br /><P class=western style="MARGIN-BOTTOM: 0in"><FONT color=#000000>“<FONT face="Corbel, sans-serif">When you know that Vetea Guilloux been sentenced to prison for his testimony, there is no hasty conclusion to be drawn from this document.”</FONT></FONT></P><br /><P class=western style="MARGIN-BOTTOM: 0in"><BR></P><br /><P class=western style="MARGIN-BOTTOM: 0in"><FONT face="Corbel, sans-serif"><FONT color=#000000>Backing up his warning against hasty conclusions, Flosse said he has “never been questioned by Justice in this case.”</FONT></FONT></P><br /><P class=western style="MARGIN-BOTTOM: 0in"><BR></P><br /><P class=western style="MARGIN-BOTTOM: 0in"><FONT face="Corbel, sans-serif"><FONT color=#000000>Vetea Guilloux was a member of the same spy cell who, in October 2004, told a minister in the then new Temaru government he had overheard colleagues during a party at Kikiriri resort, drunkenly boasting about killing Couraud.</FONT></FONT></P><br /><P class=western style="MARGIN-BOTTOM: 0in"><BR></P><br /><P class=western style="MARGIN-BOTTOM: 0in"><FONT face="Corbel, sans-serif"><FONT color=#000000>Today, Gatti said a second death of another Flosse spy allegedly involved in killing Couraud, Firmin Hauata, “goes deep.”</FONT></FONT></P><br /><P class=western style="MARGIN-BOTTOM: 0in"><BR></P><br /><P class=western style="MARGIN-BOTTOM: 0in"><FONT face="Corbel, sans-serif"><FONT color=#000000>Their statement comes three years after an editorial alluding to the deaths was made by monthly news magazine, Tahiti Pacifique. </FONT></FONT></P><br /><P class=western style="MARGIN-BOTTOM: 0in"><BR></P><br /><P class=western style="MARGIN-BOTTOM: 0in"><FONT face="Corbel, sans-serif"><FONT color=#000000>Cadousteau drowned in roughly 20 centimetres of water according to a </FONT></FONT><FONT color=#0000ff><U><A href="http://www.tahiti-pacifique.com/Affaire-JPK-GIP.html"><FONT face="Corbel, sans-serif">November 2005 report</FONT></A></U></FONT><FONT face="Corbel, sans-serif"><FONT color=#000000> referring to the trained diver as “V.C.” and Hauata as “F.H.”</FONT></FONT></P><br /><P class=western style="MARGIN-BOTTOM: 0in"><BR></P><br /><P class=western style="MARGIN-BOTTOM: 0in"><FONT face="Corbel, sans-serif"><FONT color=#000000>Hauata died of a heart attack while building hurricane relief housing in Tonga despite being in “good health”, according to the Tahiti Pacifique editorial.</FONT></FONT></P><br /><P class=western style="MARGIN-BOTTOM: 0in"><BR></P><br /><P class=western style="MARGIN-BOTTOM: 0in"><FONT face="Corbel, sans-serif"><FONT color=#000000>Officers in the raid came from DNIF, Division Nationale des Investigations Financières, French equivalent of a serious fraud office.</FONT></FONT></P><br /><P class=western style="MARGIN-BOTTOM: 0in"><BR></P><br /><P class=western style="MARGIN-BOTTOM: 0in"><FONT face="Corbel, sans-serif"><FONT color=#000000>DNIF officers are also looking into the Clearstream affair, a huge banking scandal linked with the disappearance of Couraud, known as JPK.</FONT></FONT></P><br /><P class=western style="MARGIN-BOTTOM: 0in"><FONT face="Corbel, sans-serif"><FONT color=#000000><BR>Facing numerous claims of corruption during a 30 year political career, the assassination allegation is by far the most serious for Flosse. </FONT></FONT></P><br /><P class=western style="MARGIN-BOTTOM: 0in"><BR></P><br /><P class=western style="MARGIN-BOTTOM: 0in"><FONT face="Corbel, sans-serif"><FONT color=#000000>He drew long links between the statement from the JPK support committee and attempts by Paris authorities to undermine his political credibility.</FONT></FONT></P><br /><P class=western style="MARGIN-BOTTOM: 0in"><BR></P><br /><P class=western style="MARGIN-BOTTOM: 0in"><FONT face="Corbel, sans-serif"><FONT color=#000000>Flosse questioned why “little known” lawyers would raise the names of Cadousteau and Hauata only today when they died four years ago.</FONT></FONT></P><br /><P class=western style="MARGIN-BOTTOM: 0in"><BR></P><br /><P class=western style="MARGIN-BOTTOM: 0in"><FONT face="Corbel, sans-serif"><FONT color=#000000>Referring to himself in the third person, Flosse said that as “Senator Gaston Flosse plays a decisive role in political reconciliation in French Polynesia, he can only wonder about the values of certain state authorities knowingly manipulating judicial information for the sole purpose of trying to block a political consensus which does not meet with the consent of certain people in Paris.”</FONT></FONT></P><br /><P class=western style="MARGIN-BOTTOM: 0in"><BR></P><br /><P class=western style="MARGIN-BOTTOM: 0in"><FONT color=#000000>“<FONT face="Corbel, sans-serif">Pure coincidence or deliberate?” he questioned.</FONT></FONT></P><br /><P class=western style="MARGIN-BOTTOM: 0in"><BR></P><br /><P class=western style="MARGIN-BOTTOM: 0in"><FONT color=#000000>“<FONT face="Corbel, sans-serif">In any event, Gaston Flosse is unable to verify the allegations of counsel because, not being indicted, he does not have access to the file. These statements seem so ridiculous to judicial authorities that Gaston Flosse has never been summonsed.” <BR></FONT></FONT><BR></P><br /><P class=western style="MARGIN-BOTTOM: 0in"><FONT face="Corbel, sans-serif"><FONT color=#000000>In a report headlined, “Letter’s discovery widens mystery around missing French Polynesian journalist” Radio New Zealand International reports that the spy cell in GIP, an emergency response group, <I>Groupe d’Intervention de Polynésie</I> was set up with “</FONT></FONT><FONT color=#0000ff><U><A href="http://www.rnzi.com/pages/news.php?op=read&id=43919"><FONT face="Corbel, sans-serif">tacit knowledge of the French authorities</FONT></A></U></FONT><FONT face="Corbel, sans-serif"><FONT color=#000000>.”</FONT></FONT></P><br /><P class=western style="MARGIN-BOTTOM: 0in"><BR></P><br /><DIV class=western style="MARGIN-BOTTOM: 0in"><FONT face="Corbel, sans-serif"><FONT color=#000000>Contrary to French law against domestic surveillance by non-state groups, the GIP surveillance cell eavesdropped and recorded dozens if not hundreds of Flosse foes, friends; even lovers of former Flosse girlfriends.</FONT></FONT></DIV><br /><P><FONT face=Corbel></FONT> </P><br /><DIV>. . .</DIV><br /><DIV class=western style="MARGIN-BOTTOM: 0in"><BR></DIV><br /><P class=western style="MARGIN-BOTTOM: 0in"><BR></P><BR>Avaiki Niushttp://www.blogger.com/profile/01914794693184508245noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-14683589.post-46409896386174340422009-01-30T23:32:00.003-10:002009-01-31T00:11:33.525-10:00home. . .<br /><br />HOME<br /><br />JPK Update takes today's headlines from leading news sites, most in French, just a few in English, about a Tahiti scandal that started out as an allegation of assassination and continues, to this day, to ensnare a widening ring of global figures.<br /><br />Most significant, former French president Jacques Chirac, alleged to have held roughly US$70 million inside a Tokyo bank set up by the family of a protege, former president of French Polynesia, Gaston Flosse.<br /><br />Disgraced United States investor Bernard Madoff - accused of spiriting away US$50 billion, the biggest fraud in court history - is another well known name emerging in links with Clearstream, a clearing bank.<br /><br />A kind of bank-for-banks, Clearstream officially acts exclusively as an independent check on transactions between banks.<br /><br />Allegations emerging in 2001 saw Clearstream accused of opening secret accounts for some of the world's biggest banks, as well as for private individuals and other "non-banks."<br /><br />Jean-Pascal Couraud disappeared holding a dossier of documents some seven centimetres thick, said to involve Clearstream.<br /><br />JPK's name came up in secret diaries of a French spy during a separate inquiry into Clearstream, still ongoing.<br /><br />His body has never been found.<br /><br />Multiple testimonies have emerged regarding his abduction, beating, roping and chaining at sea, before being let go, into waters more than 2,500 metres deep.<br /><br />. . .Avaiki Niushttp://www.blogger.com/profile/01914794693184508245noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-14683589.post-75839700919584687582009-01-30T23:20:00.004-10:002009-01-31T00:37:41.532-10:00about<span style="font-family:verdana;">. . .<br /><br />ABOUT<br /><br />JPK Update was set up by ANA, </span><a href="http://avaiki.nius.googlepages.com/"><span style="font-family:verdana;">avaiki nius agency</span></a><span style="font-family:verdana;"> in November 2005, following a trip to French Polynesia to cover February by-elections.<br /><br />Then, as now, the site serves as an attempt to cross the language barrier between French and English media coverage of the alleged assassination of former Pape'ete editor, Jean-Pascal Couraud, an investigative journalist.<br /><br />Known as JPK, the Couraud case is regionally significant in being the first journalist to have dissapeared while on active duty, the first allegedly assassinated.<br /><br />More about </span><a href="http://avaiki.nius.googlepages.com/"><span style="font-family:verdana;">avaiki nius agency</span></a><span style="font-family:verdana;">.</span>Avaiki Niushttp://www.blogger.com/profile/01914794693184508245noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-14683589.post-76340084283251666812009-01-30T23:14:00.002-10:002009-01-30T23:20:19.301-10:00contact update editor. . .<br /><br />CONTACT<br /><br />Bloggers, media colleagues and members of the public are welcome to use information and pictures from these pages.<br /><br />Linking to pictures and pages is welcomed, as is attribution to Avaiki Nius Agency.<br /><br />For more information, see contacts below.<br /><br />jason brown<br />editor<br />project jpk<br />tagata pasifika<br />TVNZ<br />po box 3819<br />100 victoria street west<br />auckland<br />aotearoa new zealand<br /><br />email <a href="mailto:avaiki.nius@gmail.com">avaiki.nius@gmail.com</a><br />mobile +642102484560<br />phone +6499167058<br />fax +6499167552<br /><br />. . .Avaiki Niushttp://www.blogger.com/profile/01914794693184508245noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-14683589.post-41894798493413836742009-01-30T22:51:00.004-10:002009-01-31T00:38:16.168-10:00french journo faces six million euro in claims<p class="western" style="MARGIN-BOTTOM: 0in"><span style="font-family:verdana;"></span></p><span style="font-family:verdana;">. . .<br /></span><p class="western" style="MARGIN-BOTTOM: 0in"><span style="font-family:verdana;">BEHIND THE HEADLINES</span></p><br /><p class="western" style="MARGIN-BOTTOM: 0in"><span style="font-family:verdana;"><br /></span></p><br /><p class="western" style="MARGIN-BOTTOM: 0in"><span style="font-family:verdana;">Bailiffs have appeared on his doorstep at home <span style="color:#0000ff;"><u><a href="http://pourensavoirplus.blogspot.com/">some 200 times</a></u></span>, claims the support committee behind France’s leading investigative journalist.</span></p><br /><p class="western" style="MARGIN-BOTTOM: 0in"><span style="font-family:verdana;"><br /></span></p><br /><p class="western" style="MARGIN-BOTTOM: 0in"><span style="font-family:verdana;">There are some 30 court cases lodged in progress against Denis Robert in what may prove to be one of the biggest banking scandals yet – even after the global economic crisis.</span></p><br /><p class="western" style="MARGIN-BOTTOM: 0in"><span style="font-family:verdana;"><br /></span></p><br /><p class="western" style="MARGIN-BOTTOM: 0in"><span style="font-family:verdana;">So far, a total of six million euros are being claimed against Robert and various French media who have reported his claims of vast networks of corruption, much of it allegedly linking to the global economic crisis.</span></p><br /><p class="western" style="MARGIN-BOTTOM: 0in"><span style="font-family:verdana;"><br /></span></p><br /><p class="western" style="MARGIN-BOTTOM: 0in"><span style="font-family:verdana;">Robert has been forced to start selling paintings, tshirts, and to step away from exposes and pen a novel to try and match steadily climbing legal bills.</span></p><br /><p class="western" style="MARGIN-BOTTOM: 0in"><span style="font-family:verdana;"><br /></span></p><br /><p class="western" style="MARGIN-BOTTOM: 0in"><span style="font-family:verdana;">Most of the claims come from Clearstream, a clearing bank so secretive French judges have publicly denounced it as the “black box of offshore banking.”</span></p><br /><p class="western" style="MARGIN-BOTTOM: 0in"><span style="font-family:verdana;"><br /></span></p><br /><p class="western" style="MARGIN-BOTTOM: 0in"><span style="font-family:verdana;">Some 500 journalists have scanned in their press cards and sent them into one of a handful of blogs set up to support Robert.</span></p><br /><p class="western" style="MARGIN-BOTTOM: 0in"><span style="font-family:verdana;"><br /></span></p><br /><p class="western" style="MARGIN-BOTTOM: 0in"><span style="font-family:verdana;">Another 5,300 have <span style="color:#0000ff;"><u><a href="http://www.gopetition.com/petitions/pour-denis-robert-contre-la-crise.html">signed a petition</a></u></span> in support of the investigative journalist.</span></p><br /><p class="western" style="MARGIN-BOTTOM: 0in"><span style="font-family:verdana;"><br /></span></p><br /><p class="western" style="MARGIN-BOTTOM: 0in"><span style="font-family:verdana;">Such support perhaps explains an astonishing move made by Clearstream – a large ad in Le Monde newspaper last month offering an “amicable” agreement with the author of Revelation$, a 2001 book alleging a secret, secondary banking system involved in global, high-level corruption.</span></p><br /><p class="western" style="MARGIN-BOTTOM: 0in"><span style="font-family:verdana;"><br /></span></p><br /><p class="western" style="MARGIN-BOTTOM: 0in"><span style="font-family:verdana;">Roberts told French media he had decided to reject the Clearstream offer.</span></p><br /><p class="western" style="MARGIN-BOTTOM: 0in"><span style="font-family:verdana;"><br /></span></p><br /><p class="western" style="MARGIN-BOTTOM: 0in"><span style="font-family:verdana;">“An impossible offer is impossible”. </span></p><br /><p class="western" style="MARGIN-BOTTOM: 0in"><span style="font-family:verdana;"><br /></span></p><br /><p class="western" style="MARGIN-BOTTOM: 0in"><span style="font-family:verdana;">Upon reflection and after consultation with his lawyers, Denis declined the "offer" and wrote in a text published Wednesday 29 October by Liberation. </span></p><br /><p class="western" style="MARGIN-BOTTOM: 0in"><span style="font-family:verdana;"><br /></span></p><br /><p class="western" style="MARGIN-BOTTOM: 0in"><span style="font-family:verdana;">His last post on his old blog, Le domination du monde – <span style="color:#0000ff;"><u><a href="http://www.ladominationdumonde.blogspot.com/">Domination of the World</a></u></span> – outlines legal threats against him. </span></p><br /><p class="western" style="MARGIN-BOTTOM: 0in"><span style="font-family:verdana;"><br /></span></p><br /><p class="western" style="MARGIN-BOTTOM: 0in"><span style="font-family:verdana;">Warnings against the chilling effect on freedoms of speech from global banking interests date back to 2006.</span></p><br /><p class="western" style="MARGIN-BOTTOM: 0in"><span style="font-family:verdana;"><br /></span></p><br /><p class="western" style="MARGIN-BOTTOM: 0in"><span style="font-family:verdana;">“Today after five years of fighting in France and also in Luxembourg, Switzerland and Belgium, Denis Robert can no longer keep up financially.</span></p><br /><p class="western" style="MARGIN-BOTTOM: 0in"><span style="font-family:verdana;"><br /></span></p><br /><p class="western" style="MARGIN-BOTTOM: 0in"><span style="font-family:verdana;">“A case of a writer and his revelations - annoying for those in power. His last book "Clearstream, the investigation" did not help matters: Clearstream filed new complaints in Luxembourg and France and claiming vertiginous damages on behalf of various interests. The firm also attacks his interviews in the press. </span></p><br /><p class="western" style="MARGIN-BOTTOM: 0in"><span style="font-family:verdana;"><br /></span></p><br /><p class="western" style="MARGIN-BOTTOM: 0in"><span style="font-family:verdana;">“If we take into account complaints by the Russian bank Menatep, a general bank of Luxembourg, the auditors Barbier-Frinault or that of (former French prime minister) Dominique de Villepin, 31 procedures are underway at this time. None are close to being finally judged as Clearstream and its allies use defamation cases against him and call for judicial review if they are dismissed. </span></p><br /><p class="western" style="MARGIN-BOTTOM: 0in"><span style="font-family:verdana;"><br /></span></p><br /><p class="western" style="MARGIN-BOTTOM: 0in"><span style="font-family:verdana;">“In total, more than six million euros in damages and accumulated interest are claimed from Denis Robert, his witnesses, the website Arena and its publishers and Julliard Canal Plus which broadcast his films. </span></p><br /><p class="western" style="MARGIN-BOTTOM: 0in"><span style="font-family:verdana;"><br /></span></p><br /><p class="western" style="MARGIN-BOTTOM: 0in"><span style="font-family:verdana;">“Of 28 judgments, by 1 June 2006, Clearstream and its allies had only 3 euros between them when they had asked for between 100 and 300 000 per claim.”</span></p><br /><p class="western" style="MARGIN-BOTTOM: 0in"><span style="font-family:verdana;"><br /></span></p><br /><p class="western" style="MARGIN-BOTTOM: 0in"><span style="font-family:verdana;">“We do not want to leave Denis alone. </span></p><br /><p class="western" style="MARGIN-BOTTOM: 0in"><span style="font-family:verdana;"><br /></span></p><br /><p class="western" style="MARGIN-BOTTOM: 0in"><span style="font-family:verdana;">“That is why we appeal to you to provide practical support for his defense against the juggernaut of Clearstream and its allies. </span></p><br /><p class="western" style="MARGIN-BOTTOM: 0in"><span style="font-family:verdana;"><br /></span></p><br /><p class="western" style="MARGIN-BOTTOM: 0in"><span style="font-family:verdana;">“In his books and films, he has helped us to better understand the scenes of high finance and means put in place aimed at looting States with financial ‘black boxes” like Clearstream.”</span></p><br /><p class="western" style="MARGIN-BOTTOM: 0in"><span style="font-family:verdana;"><br /></span></p><br /><p class="western" style="MARGIN-BOTTOM: 0in"><span style="font-family:verdana;">This year, Roberts diversified his Clearstream outputs to include a comic book – or graphic novel as they are more politely known.</span></p><br /><p class="western" style="MARGIN-BOTTOM: 0in"><span style="font-family:verdana;"><br /></span></p><br /><p class="western" style="MARGIN-BOTTOM: 0in"><span style="font-family:verdana;">“A cartoon like this is the juice (he spells it out, <i>le suc</i>), ten years that are compressed, condensed in a narrative and reflections”, he tells French news site, <span style="color:#0000ff;"><u><a href="http://www.mediapart.fr/club/edition/comic-strip/article/260109/denis-robert-la-bd-s-est-imposee-comme-une-evidence">Mediaslice</a></u></span>.</span></p><p class="western" style="MARGIN-BOTTOM: 0in"><span style="font-family:verdana;"></span></p><p class="western" style="MARGIN-BOTTOM: 0in"><span style="font-family:verdana;"></span></p><p class="western" style="MARGIN-BOTTOM: 0in"><span style="font-family:verdana;">Appearance of a comic book is a rare event among English investigative journalists, but graphic novels are a respected and influential part of life in France.</span></p><p class="western" style="MARGIN-BOTTOM: 0in"><span style="font-family:verdana;">. . .</span></p>Avaiki Niushttp://www.blogger.com/profile/01914794693184508245noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-14683589.post-88269498450258755382009-01-15T21:31:00.001-10:002009-01-15T21:41:46.615-10:00tahiti spy letter predicts own murder. . .<br /><br />NEWS<br /><br />A Tahiti spy wrote he would be murdered to cover up a mafia-style drowning, just off the coast of the capital of French Polynesia.<br /><br />“I know that I will be killed,” reads a letter, unsigned, undated.<br /><br />Attributed to Vetea Cadousteau, the letter outlines how he and three other men allegedly assassinated a former Pape’ete editor in 1997.<br /><br />The body of investigative journalist Jean-Pascal Couraud has never been found.<br /><br />Cadousteau was discovered dead in a river in 2004.<br /><br />Widespread speculation year after year links circumstantial evidence about the deaths to a vast banking scandal, Clearstream, well known among French media audiences, almost unknown in English circles, involving a dossier said to have been hidden by Couraud at his family home.<br /><br />Yesterday’s edition of <em>Le Monde </em>published quotes from the letter about the killing of the investigative journalist, Jean-Pascal Couraud, known as JPK.<br /><br />Initial analysis of the hand written letter returned inconclusively.<br /><br />Follow up tests to authenticate the author of the letter have been ordered by an examining magistrate, the third judge to head the JPK case.<br /><br />Justice Jean-Paul Redonnet also ordered medical records from the inquest into the death of Cadousteau, an expert diver, his body found slumped in 20 centimetres of water.<br /><br />A respected, centre-right daily in Paris, Le Monde published police notes from an interrogation of French senator Gaston Flosse. The purported spy “letter of testimony” was uplifted from a desk drawer, during a September 2008 police search of his home.<br /><br />Details from the search, by police officers from DNIF, the National Directorate of Financial Investigations, only came to light over New Year holidays.<br /><br />After the search, police interrogated Flosse.<br /><br />He admitted getting the letter about the killing of Couraud, raised in Polynesia from the age of five, but told police he found it “crazy.”<br /><br />Police asked Flosee why he had not forwarded the letter to Justice officials.<br /><br />Explaining indirectly, he claimed if there was “any real story I would have got rid of this document ."<br /><br />French media allude to comments made “in the heat of the moment” by Flosse.<br /><br />Later quotes are said to vary.<br /><br />This month’s issue of independent monthly Tahiti Pacifique compares comments from the police record of the Flosse home interrogation against later quotes from interviews with local media.<br /><br />Tahiti Pacifique describes a “change in versions.”<br /><br />Allegations of assassination of JPK first emerged in late 2004.<br /><br />Flosse always denies any role in alleged assassination of Couraud.<br /><br />Inquest notes quoted by Le Monde diagnose the Cadousteau death as being "consistent with heavy blows to the head."<br /><br />. . .<br /><br />Correction: "2007" search of Gaston Flosse a typo mistake, updated to "2008".Avaiki Niushttp://www.blogger.com/profile/01914794693184508245noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-14683589.post-58793003006685851002008-12-29T22:07:00.000-10:002008-12-29T22:15:34.296-10:00jpk lawyers name agents in “very disturbing” deaths<div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgFsKs9GVRMYZa2_-JYqA8nJAhrTCpzml1xZLCEobaINZLn9Io7T2MVp15dXCfmZUb6zjWWFijwpegnTHHx28FT-lKNuAItEraOx63i6J51ODRgmq8gkSOd5_ErQslz1ykW796k/s1600-h/20081229+afp+jean-pascal+couraud.PNG" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgFsKs9GVRMYZa2_-JYqA8nJAhrTCpzml1xZLCEobaINZLn9Io7T2MVp15dXCfmZUb6zjWWFijwpegnTHHx28FT-lKNuAItEraOx63i6J51ODRgmq8gkSOd5_ErQslz1ykW796k/s320/20081229+afp+jean-pascal+couraud.PNG" vi="true" /></a></div><br />
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An undated, hand-written letter outlining the abduction, torture and killing of a former Pape’ete editor was found at the home of a former French Polynesia president.<br />
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Police officers found the letter in a drawer during a raid on Flosse’s home in September 2008.<br />
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News of the find only emerged today.<br />
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Gaston Flosse at first refused comment, according to a report from AFP, later issuing a statement labelling the allegations “scandalous.”<br />
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Author of the letter is said to be Vetea Cadousteau, a former member of a secret spy cell who died in “very disturbing” circumstances, according to lawyers for a support committee of the editor, Jean-Pascal Couraud.<br />
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Handwriting analysis of the letter was “inconclusive”, said laywers James Lau and Max Gatti in a statement for Soutien JPK.<br />
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Further testing is needed to confirm the author of the letter of testimony, several pages long.<br />
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Lawyers for Flosse, a member of the French senate, dismissed the letter as a “set up”, part of a “plot”.<br />
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The letter claims to explain how Jean-Pascal Couraud was abducted, tortured to force him to confess where he had hidden files and how, when he was already half-drowned, a senior member of the DGSE gave orders to drop his body into 2,000 metres of water, tied to several fishing weights.<br />
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A few hours after the AFP report, Flosse released a statement to Agence Tahiti Presse from Fakarava, an outer island 432 kilometres north west of Tahiti.<br />
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Flosse attacked critics and press for continuing “to speak of kidnapping and murder of Jean-Pascal Couraud when, after more than 10 years since the disappearance of this journalist, nothing has come out to back this up. "<br />
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In his statement, Flosse said that he was guilty “merely of receiving an anonymous letter, describing alleged revelations about this case, like Oscar Temaru did in 2004, receiving testimony from Vetea Guilloux.”<br />
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Unlike testimony given to the Temaru administration, Flosse has never publicly referred to the letter.<br />
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Flosse backed away from dismissing the claims entirely.<br />
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“When you know that Vetea Guilloux been sentenced to prison for his testimony, there is no hasty conclusion to be drawn from this document.”<br />
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Backing up his warning against hasty conclusions, Flosse said he has “never been questioned by Justice in this case.”<br />
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Vetea Guilloux was a member of the same spy cell who, in October 2004, told a minister in the then new Temaru government he had overheard colleagues during a party at Kikiriri resort, drunkenly boasting about killing Couraud.<br />
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Today, Gatti said a second death of another Flosse spy allegedly involved in killing Couraud, Firmin Hauata, “goes deep.”<br />
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Their statement comes three years after an editorial alluding to the deaths was made by monthly news magazine, Tahiti Pacifique. <br />
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Cadousteau drowned in roughly 20 centimetres of water according to a November 2005 report referring to the trained diver as “V.C.” and Hauata as “F.H.”<br />
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Hauata died of a heart attack while building hurricane relief housing in Tonga despite being in “good health”, according to the Tahiti Pacifique editorial.<br />
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Officers in the raid came from DNIF, Division Nationale des Investigations Financières, French equivalent of a serious fraud squad.<br />
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DNIF officers are also looking into the Clearstream affair, a huge banking scandal linked with the disappearance of Couraud, known as JPK.<br />
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Facing numerous claims of corruption during a 30 year political career, the assassination allegation is by far the most serious for Flosse. <br />
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He drew long links between the statement from the JPK support committee and attempts by Paris authorities to undermine his political credibility.<br />
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Flosse questioned why “little known” lawyers would raise the names of Cadousteau and Hauata only today when they died four years ago.<br />
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Referring to himself in the third person, Flosse said that as “Senator Gaston Flosse plays a decisive role in political reconciliation in French Polynesia, he can only wonder about the values of certain state authorities knowingly manipulating judicial information for the sole purpose of trying to block a political consensus which does not meet with the consent of certain people in Paris.”<br />
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“Pure coincidence or deliberate?” he questioned.<br />
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“In any event, Gaston Flosse is unable to verify the allegations of counsel because, not being indicted, he does not have access to the file. These statements seem so ridiculous to judicial authorities that Gaston Flosse has never been summonsed.” <br />
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In a report headlined, “Letter’s discovery widens mystery around missing French Polynesian journalist” Radio New Zealand International reports that the spy cell in GIP, an emergency response group, Groupe d’Intervention de Polynésie was set up with “tacit knowledge of the French authorities.”<br />
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Contrary to French law against domestic surveillance by non-state groups, the GIP surveillance cell eavesdropped and recorded dozens if not hundreds of Flosse foes, friends; even lovers of former Flosse girlfriends.<br />
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One piece of testimony differs significantly from earlier accounts.<br />
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Guilloux testified that he had heard the agents talking about tying four concrete blocks to the half-drowned body of Couraud.<br />
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However according to today’s statement from the JPK committee lawyers, Couraud was tied to fishing weights.<br />
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. . .Avaiki Niushttp://www.blogger.com/profile/01914794693184508245noreply@blogger.com0French Polynesia-17.535021 -149.569595-18.844366 -151.43727099999998 -16.225676 -147.701919tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-14683589.post-18124812957126953302008-12-20T00:28:00.000-10:002009-01-31T00:31:24.706-10:00french security advisers hold back 14 documents<div class="western">. . .</div><br /><div class="western"></div><br /><div class="western">NEWS</div><br /><div class="western"></div><br /><div class="western">Thirteen of 26 new national security documents involving former French president Jacques Chirac are likely to stay top secret, despite links to an inquiry involving alleged assassination.<br /></div><p class="western">Just 11 of the documents were recommended for full release on 4 December 2008, according to last Friday’s Official Journal, a state gazette.</p><p class="western"></p><p class="western">“Partial declassification” for two further documents were made by members of the CCSDN, <i>la Commission consultative du secret de la défense nationale.</i></p><br /><p class="western">A powerful advisory commission overseeing judicial inquiries and other requests for release of national defense secrets, CCSDN members recommended against the declassification of 13 documents.</p><br /><p class="western">This compares with earlier recommendations releasing 16 of 17 documents from another dossier considered by CCSDN<i>.</i></p><br /><p class="western">All 132 recommendations from the national security commission have so far been accepted by ministers of the day.</p><br /><p class="western">First story on the new documents appeared at a quarter to six last Friday evening, according to a timestamp on a story at <span style="color:#0000ff;"><u><a href="http://tempsreel.nouvelobs.com/actualites/politique/20081219.OBS6377/26_documents_secrets_pourraient_etre_declassifies.html.">Le Nouvel Observateur</a></u></span>, a weekly newsmagazine.</p><br /><p class="western">The report was picked up by <span style="color:#0000ff;"><u><a href="http://www.tahitipresse.pf/index.cfm?snav=see&presse=26280">Tahitipresse</a></u></span>, publishing online 4:19 hours later, adding direct reference to the five-year-old Clearstream scandal.</p><br /><p class="western">Neither reported who submitted the 26 documents for declassification.</p><br /><p class="western">Two judicial inquiries are active.</p><br /><p class="western">Links to Jean-Pascal Couraud, a former editor in Pape’ete, emerged when leaked documents exposed a Chirac bank account in Tokyo with 300 million Francs, about US$70 million.</p><br /><p class="western">Various witnesses have told the media of Couraud investigating the account before he disappeared 11 years ago on a Monday night, 15<sup>th</sup> December 1997.</p><br /><p class="western">The Tokyo bank is owned by a relation of Gaston Flosse, a former president of French Polynesia.</p><br /><p class="western">CCSDN recommends solely on declassification of documents concerning national security.</p><br /><p class="western">In this latest decision, the 13 still-secret documents join one earlier paper, held back from a first dossier of 17 recommended for declassification.</p><br /><p class="western">This brings a total of 42 documents considered for declassification since October, with 27 recommended for declassification, 14 staying top secret and two partially declassified.</p><br /><p class="western">The CCSDN never releases documents itself.</p><br /><p class="western">First, a minister must consider the commission’s recommendations, and, if accepted, documents then go to judicial inquiry, for possible publication with findings, months or years later.</p><br /><p class="western"><br />. . .</p>Avaiki Niushttp://www.blogger.com/profile/01914794693184508245noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-14683589.post-68121588753030444202008-12-19T23:51:00.001-10:002008-12-23T18:45:18.606-10:00more chirac papers released in affair JPK<div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEiXScEdvZozoYt0bDVjjhbewz0pGvOfUsUGLXnzgrGrKb9tQ6jUkSU6mzFDe-Fj9i_j7XNGI0LFANWSDfLjCSQFJUk0aLcCcTedwYOargAbOJyr4-6S077Em0a1b6FBiEes4mTq/s1600-h/20070822+rue89+jpk+japan+bank+account.PNG" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEiXScEdvZozoYt0bDVjjhbewz0pGvOfUsUGLXnzgrGrKb9tQ6jUkSU6mzFDe-Fj9i_j7XNGI0LFANWSDfLjCSQFJUk0aLcCcTedwYOargAbOJyr4-6S077Em0a1b6FBiEes4mTq/s400/20070822+rue89+jpk+japan+bank+account.PNG" vi="true" /></a></div><br />
<strong>earlier coverage: </strong>exposing bank accounts in japan, belonging to former french president, jacques chirac, and former french polynesian president, gaston flosse.<br />
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NEWS RELEASE<br />
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A national security commission in Paris approved declassification of 11 documents last Friday, opening new links between an alleged assassination of a former Pape’ete editor with ex-president Jacques Chirac.<br />
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It is the second dossier of top secret papers to emerge from two judicial inquiries exploring growing links. <br />
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Of 26, two further papers were recommended for partially declassification by La Commission consultative du secret de la défense nationale (CCSDN), a powerful advisory commission overseeing judicial inquiries and other requests for release of national defense secrets.<br />
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Commission members recommended 13 documents not be approved for declassification.<br />
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All 132 recommendations from the national security commission have so far been accepted by ministers of the day.<br />
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First story on the new documents appeared at a quarter to six last Friday evening, according to a timestamp on a story at Le Nouvel Observateur, a weekly newsmagazine.<br />
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The report was picked up by Tahitipresse, publishing online 4:19 hours later, adding direct reference to the five-year-old Clearstream scandal.<br />
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No details were reported on who submitted the 26 documents for declassification.<br />
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Two judicial inquiries are active.<br />
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Links to Jean-Pascal Couraud, a former editor in Pape’ete, emerged when leaked documents exposed a Chirac bank account in Tokyo with 300 million Francs, about US$70 million.<br />
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Various witnesses have told the media of Couraud investigating the account before he disappeared 11 years ago on a Monday night, 15th December 1997.<br />
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The Tokyo bank is owned by a relation of Gaston Flosse, a former president of French Polynesia.<br />
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CCSDN recommends solely on declassification of documents concerning national security.<br />
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In this latest decision, the 13 still-secret documents join one earlier paper, held back from a first dossier of 17 recommended for declassification.<br />
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This brings a total of 42 documents considered for declassification this month, with 27 recommended for declassification, 14 staying top secret and two partially declassified.<br />
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The CCSDN never releases documents itself.<br />
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First, a minister must release their decision, and then the documents go, in this case, to judicial inquiry, and documents do not necessarily get published with findings, months or years later.<br />
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. . .Avaiki Niushttp://www.blogger.com/profile/01914794693184508245noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-14683589.post-76540555161774821552008-12-18T04:56:00.002-10:002008-12-18T05:10:51.363-10:00silence marks jpk anniverary<span style="font-family: Georgia, "Times New Roman", serif;">...</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Georgia, "Times New Roman", serif;">EDITORIAL </span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Georgia, "Times New Roman", serif;">A family falls silent.</span><br />
<span style="font-family: Georgia, "Times New Roman", serif;">An anniversary passes.</span><br />
<span style="font-family: Georgia, "Times New Roman", serif;">Eleven years, to be sure.</span><br />
<span style="font-family: Georgia, "Times New Roman", serif;">No press releases.</span><br />
<span style="font-family: Georgia, "Times New Roman", serif;">No conference statements.</span><br />
<span style="font-family: Georgia, "Times New Roman", serif;">No email alerts.</span><br />
<span style="font-family: Georgia, "Times New Roman", serif;">Still, no trace, Jean-Pascal Couraud.</span><br />
<span style="font-family: Georgia, "Times New Roman", serif;">An investigation, yes.</span><br />
<span style="font-family: Georgia, "Times New Roman", serif;">Four years old.</span><br />
<span style="font-family: Georgia, "Times New Roman", serif;">For a man not forty.</span><br />
<span style="font-family: Georgia, "Times New Roman", serif;">Family falls silent, crestfallen, facing, full force, the French state.</span><br />
<span style="font-family: Georgia, "Times New Roman", serif;">Freemasons, far frontiers, financial flows, fundamental flaws, fundamentalists.</span><br />
<span style="font-family: Georgia, "Times New Roman", serif;">No foreigner.</span><br />
<span style="font-family: Georgia, "Times New Roman", serif;">Nor freelancers <em>sans </em>frontiers.</span><br />
<span style="font-family: Georgia, "Times New Roman", serif;">Now, just silence.</span><br />
<span style="font-family: Georgia;">Six months, no more.</span><br />
<span style="font-family: Georgia, "Times New Roman", serif;">Surf.</span><br />
<span style="font-family: Georgia, "Times New Roman", serif;">Curving onto reef, close; <em>shhhhhh</em>, ukulele, hymn, prayer.</span><br />
<span style="font-family: Georgia, "Times New Roman", serif;">Frangipani tree, memory, brothers once three.</span><br />
<span style="font-family: Georgia, "Times New Roman", serif;">No bottles, none smashed.</span><br />
<span style="font-family: Georgia, "Times New Roman", serif;">Silence, volumes, dawning daze, subprime reality, la force de frappe, <em>sans </em>frontières.</span><br />
<span style="font-family: Georgia, "Times New Roman", serif;">France. </span><br />
<span style="font-family: Georgia, "Times New Roman", serif;">Flapping tricolour, rainbow reviewed, eternally.</span><br />
<span style="font-family: Georgia, "Times New Roman", serif;">Fairly, not really, a frogmen follow-up from mercy dash,</span><br />
<span style="font-family: Georgia, "Times New Roman", serif;">Federated states of micronesia, jelly </span><br />
<span style="font-family: Georgia, "Times New Roman", serif;">Fish babies.</span><br />
<span style="font-family: Georgia, "Times New Roman", serif;">For sure. </span><br />
<span style="font-family: Georgia, "Times New Roman", serif;">A photographer, globally mourned. </span><br />
<span style="font-family: Georgia, "Times New Roman", serif;">An editor, forgotten. </span><br />
<span style="font-family: Georgia;">Albion.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Georgia;">...</span>Avaiki Niushttp://www.blogger.com/profile/01914794693184508245noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-14683589.post-14766525750172922022008-11-02T16:59:00.001-10:002009-01-30T23:59:14.228-10:00Clearstream Wins Defamation Award Appeal Over French Journalist<table cellspacing="0" cellpadding="0" width="100%" border="0"><tbody><tr bgcolor="#000000"><td></td></tr></tbody></table><table cellspacing="0" cellpadding="0" width="100%" bgcolor="#ffffff" border="0"><tbody><tr><td align="left"><div class="articlepage"><div class="contentbox article"><br /></div><p class="contentbox article"></p><div class="contentbox article"><br /><span class="news_story_title">Clearstream Wins Defamation Award Appeal Over French Journalist </span><br /></div><p class="contentbox article">By Heather Smith</p><p class="contentbox article">Oct. 16 (Bloomberg) -- Clearstream International SA, the financial-settlement company owned by <a onmouseover="return escape( popwQuoteShort( this, 'DB1:GY' ))" href="http://www.blogger.com/apps/quote?ticker=DB1%3AGY">Deutsche Boerse AG</a>, won 1,500 euros ($2,000) in damages from a French journalist in its appeal of an earlier 1-euro defamation award. </p><p class="contentbox article">The Paris court of appeals ruled that reporter Denis Robert and his publisher <a onmouseover="return escape( popwOpenWebSite( this ))" href="http://www.arenes.fr/" target="_blank">Les Arenes</a>, or Canal Plus, the pay-TV unit of <a onmouseover="return escape( popwQuoteShort( this, 'VIV:FP' ))" href="http://www.blogger.com/apps/quote?ticker=VIV%3AFP">Vivendi SA</a> that ran a documentary in 2001 featuring Robert's reports, erred when they claimed that Clearstream's numbered accounts facilitated illegal activities, according to a statement from Clearstream. </p><p class="contentbox article">Clearstream's goal ``has been to establish the truth about its activities and to defend its honesty,'' said Clearstream Chairman <a onmouseover="return escape( popwSearchNews( this ))" href="http://search.bloomberg.com/search?q=Andre+Roelants&site=wnews&client=wnews&proxystylesheet=wnews&output=xml_no_dtd&ie=UTF-8&oe=UTF-8&filter=p&getfields=wnnis&sort=date:D:S:d1">Andre Roelants</a> in the statement. The appeals court's decision to increase the damages ``accomplishes that.'' </p><p class="contentbox article">An appeals court in Brussels last month fined Canal Plus Belgique 1 euro in a libel case over the same documentary. </p><p class="contentbox article">A spokesman for Canal Plus and Larence Corona, a spokeswoman for Les Arenes, declined to comment on today's ruling. Robert's lawyer didn't immediately return a call for comment. </p><p class="contentbox article">To contact the reporter on this story: <a onmouseover="return escape( popwSearchNews( this ))" href="http://search.bloomberg.com/search?q=Heather+Smith&site=wnews&client=wnews&proxystylesheet=wnews&output=xml_no_dtd&ie=UTF-8&oe=UTF-8&filter=p&getfields=wnnis&sort=date:D:S:d1">Heather Smith</a> in Paris at <a onmouseover="return escape( popwSendEmail( this ))" href="mailto:hsmith26@bloomberg.net">hsmith26@bloomberg.net</a> </p><div class="contentbox article"><i>Last Updated: October 16, 2008 13:18 EDT</i> </div><div class="contentbox article"> </div><div class="contentbox article">. . .</div><p class="contentbox article"></p><div class="textad"></div><div class="contentbox article"><br /><br /> </div><p class="contentbox article"></p><div class="contentbox article"><br /></div></div></td></tr></tbody></table>Avaiki Niushttp://www.blogger.com/profile/01914794693184508245noreply@blogger.com0