US EditionFormer French minister Lang summoned over Epstein links: Report
Jack Lang, linked in over 600 Epstein files, faces calls to resign from Arab World Institute amid scrutiny of 2012–2019 correspondence, including a 2017 email praising Epstein.
- On Feb 6, pressure rose after the French foreign ministry summoned Jack Lang, former French culture minister and president of the Arab World Institute, Paris, to consider resigning.
- A U.S. Department of Justice file release last week shows Epstein and Lang's intermittent correspondence between 2012 and 2019, with Lang's name appearing over 600 times, according to a Reuters review.
- Lang said earlier this week he was unaware of Epstein's 2008 conviction when they met around 2012, and the 86-year-old head of the Arab World Institute denies wrongdoing.
- On Monday, Caroline Lang resigned as head of France's Independent Production Union after her links to Epstein surfaced, and both she and her father deny wrongdoing.
- Correspondence shows Epstein and Lang interacted intermittently between 2012 and 2019, while an April 7, 2017 email from Lang expressed gratitude for Epstein's generosity.
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The ramifications of the Epstein case — the millionaire American man convicted of paedophilia and killed himself in prison in 2019 — that are shaking the spheres of politics on several continents have reached France this week. Former Minister of Culture Jack Lang, a key figure in various governments of François Mitterrand in the 1980s and 1990s, and current president of the Arab World Institute (IMA), has been summoned this Friday by the Ministr…
Jack Lang has again spoken of him since the last revelations of the Epstein affair. The former Minister of Culture has himself confessed his ties with the American businessman. And if the calls for his resignation from the presidency of the Institute of the Arab World (IMA) multiply, he refuses to leave his office. He is summoned to the Quai d'Orsay to evoke his links with the pedocriminal. Scheduled Friday, February 6, the interview was postpon…
A series of e-mails consulted by Mediapart indicates that the former minister was personally linked to an offshore company of Jeffrey Epstein and his daughter. The president of the Institute of...
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