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"en.20020228.4.4-062"2
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"We voted for the waiver of the parliamentary immunity of Jean-Charles Marchiani, accused, along with Charles Pasqua, of serious crimes – the illegal sale of arms to Cameroon, to the Congo, to Angola, illegal campaign financing from the sale of arms and influence peddling. Messrs Falcone, Attali, Mitterrand, Sulitzer, and others who have been indicted in the same scandal, have either been held for questioning, are being investigated or on bail. The judges cannot use these measures in this case due to the immunity of Marchiani and Pasqua, who are taking advantage of this fact to hold up the investigation. It is not the place of Members of Parliament to stand in for the courts, nor to pass judgment on the substance of the case, nor the investigation. However, it is their task to waive an immunity that would prevent the courts from carrying out their investigation. To refuse them the freedom to do this would reveal the true nature of this so-called ‘desire for transparency’, meaning that an MEP is above the laws that apply to all citizens in his country. If a majority of so-called ‘committed European’ MEPs protect these so-called ‘separatists’, so often implicated in Franco-African scandals, from the law, it is because, in fact, despite all the speeches they may make, they all share a certain idea of Europe: one where tax havens, arms dealers and oil companies reign supreme, a political world that is poisoned by money, and a contempt for justice and for the sovereignty of the African peoples, the front-line victims of this ‘arms for oil’ trafficking."@en1
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