List of political scandals in France

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This is a list of major political scandals in France:

Until 1958

• 1816 - shipwreck of and search for French frigate Medusa off the west coast of Africa.
• 1847 - Teste-Cubières corruption scandal, revealed in May 1847
• 1847 - Charles de Choiseul-Praslin's suicide after having murdered his wife, daughter of Horace Sébastiani, Minister of the July Monarchy.
• 1880s - Boulanger Affair
• 1887 - Schnaebele incident
• 1887 - Wilson scandal, which led to the resignation of President Jules Grévy^[1]
• 1890s - Panama scandals
• 1894 - the Dreyfus Affair, treason conviction of Alfred Dreyfus - exposed by writer Émile Zola on January 13, 1898.
• 1928 - Marthe Hanau affair
• 1930 - Albert Oustric affair
• 1934 - the Stavisky Affair, embezzlement and political corruption.
• 1949 - the Generals Affair, a political-military scandal during the First Indochina War.
• 1950 - the Henri Martin Affair, a political-military scandal during the First Indochina War.
• 1958 - the ballets roses, a scandal most notably involving then President of the Senate, André Le Troquer, in which a group of girls aged 15 to 17 performed "ballets" that ended in orgies.

Under the Fifth Republic

• 1965 - the Ben Barka affair, disappearance of the Moroccan opposition leader Mehdi Ben Barka.
• 1968 - The Markovic affair
• 1974
  • Eurodif Affair.
  • Cardinal Jean Daniélou's death in the house of a prostitute (1974)
  • Le Monde reveals the existence of the SAFARI government database, prompting the creation of the CNIL agency in charge of respect of civil rights and data privacy.
• 1979
  • Robert Boulin Affair (Boulin was a minister of the third Raymond Barre government, found dead in mysterious circumstances on October 30, 1979)
  • Diamonds Affair involving Bokassa.
• 1981 - The Canard enchaîné uncovered the Collaborationist role of former Minister Maurice Papon under Vichy France. The latter will be eventually convicted of crimes against humanity.
• 1985 - Sinking of the Rainbow Warrior by the French DGSE intelligence agency
• 1986 - Chernobyl disaster: Jacques Chirac's government wrongly alleged that the "radioactive cloud" had stopped at the French borders.
• 1987-1988 - Iskandar Safa and the Hostage Scandal involving Prime Minister Jacques Chirac and Interior Minister Charles Pasqua.
• 1980s - Contaminated blood scandal^[2]
• The Canard enchaîné satirical newspaper fought to bring to light evidence of alleged corruption during President Jacques Chirac's tenure as mayor of Paris. (see: Chirac's role in Parisian corruption scandals)
• 1990s - Angolagate (arms-for-oil scandal)
  • Taiwan frigates scandal (aka La Fayette scandal)
• 1994 - Yann Piat Affair (a former Front National far-right MP, assassinated on February 25, 1994)
• 1994 - Affaire Dauphiné News (cabinet minister Alain Carignon indicted, and later sentenced to 29 months)
• 1998 - Affair Elf-Dumas
• 1999 - "Affair of the beach huts", leading to the arrest of prefect Bernard Bonnet
• 2005
  • The revelations of the Canard enchaîné on Finance Minister Hervé Gaymard's (UMP) lavish state-funded apartment led to his resignation in 2005.
• 2006
  • Clearstream affair allegedly involving French prime minister Dominique de Villepin (UMP) accused of attempting to discredit his political rivals, including UMP leader Nicolas Sarkozy, by spreading false allegations concerning the Taiwan frigates scandal.^[3]
• From 2010
  • Bettencourt affair
  • L'hippodrome de Compiègne affair
  • Carlton de Lille affair
  • Tramway de Bordeaux affair
  • Guérini affair
  • Karachi affair
  • Sylvie Andrieux affair
  • Woerth-Bettencourt affair
  • Sarkozy-Kadhafi affair
  • Cahuzac Jerome affair
  • Bygmalion affair
  • Thevenoud Thomas affair
  • Arif Kader affair
  • Fabius Thomas affair
  • Morelle Aquilino affair
  • Fillon affair
  • Benalla affair

See also

• Balladur jurisprudence, concerning ministers indicted by the justice
• Le Canard Enchaîné, an investigative satirical newspaper which uncovered many scandals
• Outreau affair, a judicial scandal

General:

• Corruption in France

References

External links

• The Bettencourt/L'Oréal scandal Radio France Internationale in English
• French politics no stranger to scandals Radio France Internationale in English
• L'Oréal, scandals and the far right Radio France Internationale in English
• Liste d'affaires politico-financières françaises List Of French Financial Political Scandals in French