US EditionFrench government alerts prosecutor to diplomat with Epstein ties
French Foreign Minister Jean-Noël Barrot referred diplomat Fabrice Aidan to prosecutors for allegedly transferring UN documents to Epstein amid an internal inquiry and potential criminal charges.
- On Feb 11, 2026, Foreign Minister Jean‑Noël Barrot referred allegations about Fabrice Aidan to Paris prosecutors, calling the emails 'staggering' for including U.N. document transfers.
- Published DOJ documents and media reports prompted review after the FBI flagged Fabrice Aidan for accessing child sexual abuse sites at the U.N., leading to an internal probe and resignation.
- Engie responded by suspending Fabrice Aidan after reports that he shared U.N. Security Council briefings and a Ban Ki‑moon call readout with Epstein, and he asked for Paris apartment codes.
- Foreign Minister Jean‑Noël Barrot ordered an administrative investigation and disciplinary proceedings against Fabrice Aidan, calling the allegations extremely serious, while President Emmanuel Macron said he was appalled and Maud Bregeon said judicial bodies may take up the case.
- The U.S. Department of Justice release this year has uncovered numerous Epstein connections across Europe and the U.S., prompting wider scrutiny and investigations involving Norwegian diplomats and officials. Fabrice Aidan, who served as adviser to Norwegian diplomat and IPI president Terje Rod‑Larsen, is suspected of ties to Epstein, with investigations now ongoing.
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Epstein Files: France probes diplomat for leaking UN documents to Epstein
French diplomat Fabrice Aidan faces probe over claims he leaked UN papers to Jeffrey Epstein. He denies all charges, including FBI suspicions of child abuse site visits, as France launches disciplinary action.
The shock wave of the earthquake caused by the Epstein affair continues to spread around the world this Wednesday, February 11. In France, diplomat Fabrice Aidan appears in the documents published by the American justice system. The Minister of Foreign Affairs has brought the matter before the courts.
A French diplomat was targeted in 2013 by an FBI and UN survey, where he was in operation, for questioning the consultation of children's pornography sites before leaving the United States.
France orders probe after emails show French diplomat exchanged documents with Epstein
PARIS, Feb 12 — France’s foreign minister has requested a probe into a French diplomat who corresponded with convicted sex offender Jeffrey Epstein, and who another envoy said was investigated while at the United Nations over child sex abuse websites.The case around diplomat Fabrice Aidan, who has rejected all the charges, is the latest to shake France in the fallout following the US Department of Justice’s release last month of new Epstein inve…
The exchanges revealed by the US authorities in the Epstein case show that Fabrice Aidan served as an operational channel for dealings between the pedocriminal and the Norwegian Terje Rød-Larsen.
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