"You are rich, you have a beautiful house (...), you made a fortune. Maybe later I will succeed. It is France that I like" says Nicolas Sarkozy on October 23 2006 by handing over the Legion of Honor to Stéphane Richard, married in 2002 by the mayor of Neuilly ... This same Nicolas Sarkozy (*). Richard will later win the head of France Telecom, pushed by the presidency, replacing Didier Lombard and his calamitous management (I would not say suicidal out of respect for those who have disappeared in this hell). The President of the Republic thus sums up success: for him it is to be rich and to have a large house (with swimming pool?). For those who could have believed in his intellectualism, however also strongly praised, it is white cabbage. The bling-bling, at home is a first nature. Logic to see his marriage witness in case of ahead of his own wishes, doing in the gigantic, rather skillfully, we will say ... Because without any fortune be engulfed in the case: taxes ignoring until 2009 existence of construction. Yesterday we saw that the place chosen to build the house of its Sarkozian success was not common. Today we will try to find out more.
Because there are many others, sources of money, in addition to the rental for filming of television films, described there as in detail by a prolix wife visibly wishing to settle some accounts. The one for example of the noria of suitcases seen both in Switzerland and in Nilo. Filled with tickets, and often brought by a man named Ziad Takieddine, the same one who was pinned in 2011, the suitcase filled with small cuts (1.5 million euros) when a private jet from Libya. According to him, obviously, none of that. Or almost. Not a penny (or almost). Her husband "went to Switzerland with Ziad Takieddine", when he "worked at the Ministry of the Budget" ... told the police the beautiful Hélène, pushing the soap with the feet of her ex. One of the two at least would therefore have been partly built with the money collected on the commissions of arms sales in which Ziad Takieddine participated. Otherwise the two would have used, according to the investigators, Panamanian screen companies, Monahan International and Airedale Business to carry out questionable transactions allowing it. Trakfine inspectors we discovered with surprise, visibly. Everyone finds themselves to discuss it on the (small) yacht of 24 meters of Takieddine, the diva (estimated at 4 million of euros). It is on this boat, precisely, that in 2002 Pierre-Mathieu Duhamel (here in good company and there too) a customs senior customs (and former secretary general of Tracfin, the anti-Blanchimen service t of the Ministry of Finance from 1996 to 1999) will be photographed. It is also the former UMP mayor of Boulogne-Billlancourt (here greeting Nathan Darty, the founder of the dynasty, one of the little girls of which has become Madame Sarkozy Junior), to the career dating back to that of Chirac in 1995), came to celebrate his legion of honor in and place (another one!). The man regrets having thus left himself photographed, swearing by all his gods having had no role with the people mentioned. That worthy people, that day will he assure later. We only ask to believe it.
Takieddine then playing three -band billiards and even four between Nicolas Sarkozy, Ingrid Betancourt, the Farcs and ... Gaddafi, retained as a possible financial intermediary of a liberation! "In a note dated April 17, 2008, Mr. Takieddine announces that he" confirmation of the Libyan will "of a liberation from Ingrid Betancourt" as soon as possible ". The Libyan contribution to" a rapid outcome "of the problem being linked "to the importance that the President of the French Republic attaches to it". A contact by the Libyans with the Venezuelle President Hugo Chavez is mentioned. "Confirmation of his agreement to intervene in an effective manner according to the conditions listed below After with Libya, "notes Mr. Takieddine". Would Takieddine's tickets have contained a ransom payment paid by Libya, in exchange ... of a French desire to make the Libyan dictator presentable? The Elysée tried several ways, because, at the same time, via his three special envoys, including Noël Saez, he nevertheless negotiated clearly in March 2008 with Reyes during the bombing of his camp, decided by Uibe and Santos without Nicolas Sarkozy in was in anything informed. On the diplomatic level, Sarkozy's France started with a beautiful fiasco. And Saez, in an avenging book, will explain a little later that what had been supposedly discovered by the Colombian government in the computers of Reyes had been manufactured. He will find Ingrid Betancourt "thankless". Takieddine, leaving 100,000 then euros from a Swiss bank "for the management of the Villa de Gaubert". In France, Takieddine declares the double only! In December 2002, he was photographed under the bell of the entrance porch of his villa. At the origin of the leak, Nicola Johnson, the wife of Ziad Takieddine.
Respectable people, aboard the yacht, not the kind of society to do in the prostitute bar? It is not certain: in 2003, barely the finished villa, Thierry Gaubert had opened ... a bar, in Nilo itself, when he was still officially project manager with Jean-François Copé, the swimmer of Cap d'Antibes swimming pool, (on the property of Takieddine!) Within the Secretariat of Relations with Parliament. And as in Sarkozie we have a taste, it is well known, the bar had been immediately baptized "Le Nibar". A second open soon after (in 2005) being called "Le Nichon", to make even more local. Or recall the violent telenovelas filmed inside the two villas, where actresses have as main play how to move their chest (as here in the "mafia dolls"). According to the two protagonists, the two bars , closed and sold since then, would not have welcomed any form of prostitution. Of course. In a garrison city, it is well known, no waitress bar is engaged in this kind of thing! In France as in Colombia!
No prostitutes? This is not entirely the opinion of the ex-wife, decidedly loud to go against her former husband (but this time it is the ex-wife of the neighbor it seems): "In 2006, Astrid Betancourt (Mr. Couzi's wife, editor's note) informed me that he was doing funny things in Thierry's house, while he was there with my son, she explained . Astrid then informed me that there was an atmosphere of moral debauchery. She told me, while my son was on vacation with her father, that four very young prostitutes were with Thierry and that they were walking naked in the house. It deeply upset me for my son, who was then nine years old. " Definitely, there is not that in the Carlton de Lille that a interlope fauna was walking in front of politicians or their friends. Asked about the question with a photo showing him embraced two local beauties (photo above), Couzi will make Mediapart this distributed all "nichonesque": it is true that they are a little whore, these two ". What a tact, and what cynicism! A "taste" team, I say to you: it is not for nothing that their chef one day did in the "break you" ... to stay in the absence of taste, one of the articles of Mediapart signals a Beautiful additional pompom: "A SAS of Gérard de Villiers, bring them back alive, already pointed out in 2004 the existence of the nibar in Colombia. The novelist was indeed one of the friends of another French installed on site, Thierry de The brush, the former managing director of OM, who died since. The couple of the brush had built a property on the advice of Thierry Gaubert '. The subject of "the invaluable" work, as indicated on the 4th of Cover? "The Farcs had just succeeded in kidnapping Malko" ... A hostage taking in Colombia! Incredible content !!! The real summary of the story being "saving 3 CIA agents, prisoners of Colombian guerrillas, A new mission particularly dangerous for SAS ". In short, the story cooked in a villiers of the three American hostages." Beaufs, with Beaufs readings (difficult to make a more trashy "cover" for the book)! As Nicolas Domenach and Maurice Szafran had recalled in "Off - which Sarkozy should never have told us," in the politician, they are all Ploucs without any attention for others. Ah, you didn't know. But I am almost an exception ... "With the backdrop, soldiers, mercenaries ... and always the base of Tolemeida. A great exception, too.
According to Mediapart, still, Colombian police officers would have been closely interested in another investment signed Couzi, a hotel located in Santa Marta, reputed to be a tourist high place ... and also (it is a coincidence) Mecca of Colombian prostitution . An American bicycle adventurer told in 2009 his visit by chance of Santa Mara, at the Miramar Hotel: "My lawyers pushed me to visit one of the brothels. Arturo even offered to embark to visit them One. I was drunk, and therefore I thought, "in Rome, do like the Romans ...", but it would have been weird. Although it seems that the closed houses and prostitution were an accepted part of Culture in Colombia, I had to explain to my friends that it was strange and taboo in the United States. In the end, I decided to go against cultural immersion. Arturo then left cocaine Colombian -. Of high quality and very low prices, Arturo delighted on this subject and made the gesture of sniffing gestures, Eduardo got stressed, disinterested. Eduardo was obviously not drug use, but Arturo was passionate by the subject. "Our cyclist meeting the next day in the same place another character, called René, whom we can assume of origin f Rançaise: "When Eduardo left for the airport, Arturo and I joined his friend at another table. René was an old man, rather big, who wore a cane. He was talking about English well. As René explained, it was because he had lived in the United States for a few years. However, Arturo then told me that René had spent five years in prison in the United States because of his involvement in drug trade - that is why he spoke English as well. "Santa Marta, another stronghold Doubtful. To give the change, or blur the tracks, the two accomplices had opened in Silo, a completely different trade: "El Pollo Frances", a store for the sale of chickens ... which were obviously not French. The wing or the thigh (light), so to speak, remaining well franchouillard, to stay in tone.
It's not all that, but to have a big house without inviting anyone, it's a bit bad (left, J-Ph. Couzy). You will tell me, certainly, but Bogota is not the door next door, and to go, you need at least an Air France Airbus, even a private jet (a Falcon?) For the wealthy. This is why undoubtedly the investigators find a head known in the photos: "In 2002, for the Christmas holidays, the Finca Cactus awaits another key man from this political network: Olivier Dassault, son of the famous aircraft manufacturer, UMP deputy for the Oise and administrator of SOCPRESS, the publisher of the daily Le Figaro. During a hike, Takieddine and Dassault pose around Thierry Gaubert. " A Dassault son who is well piloted by his own Falcon devices: "For his part, Olivier Dassault, deputy of Oise, seizes all opportunities to enter the cockpit of his Falcon: he accumulates between two hundred and three hundred flight hours per year ". On board his little Falcon 10 staff, repainted from new, the F-GTOD ("O" and "D" for Olivier Dassault, of course, that's well worth all the "yogi" of the world!)
"Recently, during a working visit to the Minister of Finance in Norway, he embarked his colleagues and made the trip during the day, in order to return to Paris in time to defend the group's amendments. Pilot since 1975, formed" In the rules of the art, at the Air Force school ", Marcel Dassault's grandson becomes lyrical when he describes his sensations in flight:" Liberty, of course. A kind of weightlessness, both in time and in space. But also a more complex feeling, simultaneously made of strength and fragility. "Lyrical, in his spare time, the grandson of the inventor of the mirage! To land as close to the two villas, with a small device, it is the Santiago Vila Airport that must be chosen, located in Girardot, attached to the city of Flandes, having a short asphalt track of 1600 m. Rustic, but well cleared. But not intended for the Falcon! In Bogota, that is Madrid airport, which remained famous with the crash on July 7, of a Kalitta 747 supposed to be filled with flowers ... But the "famous" nearby military base seems most likely for the visit of the villas. A military base Accepting civil passages? There seems to be a civil cargo cargo service, on the basis, in any case. The manager is a guy from ... Dyncorp, installed in Melbourne, Florida. We see passing as in El Dorado Plans of Evergreen; (here also seen in Medellin) known for a long time as parav society Ent of the CIA. Because it is this one that served as journalists will confirm the employees of the house of the Villa Gaubert. Sub-paled employees of a luxurious villa: "To date, my house cost me $ 600,000. You should know that life in Colombia is not expensive at all. Thierry Gaubert wants to proof the low salary From its employees on site: "150 dollars per month" (101 euros, adds Médiapart: a 1/14 nd of minimum wage, without any charges!). And more than half a billion dollars (407,000 euros) Under the nose of the tax!
This guest there, and soon another, not coming to Falcon this one: Alexandre Begoügne de Juniac, the former collaborator of Sarkozy when he was on the budget (always the same small circle of friends), and also former director of cabinetFrom Christine Lagarde, the current boss ... of Air France, project manager in the office of François Baroin.Man has the reputation of being "very comfortable in a world where things must be conquered abroad," it was said.And also seemed to have the sharing substance, what's more.It could have every interest in disguising himself as a soldier to visit the Colombian base which adjoins the Villa de Gaubert as a spy;He successively worked for Thomson SA, Sextant Avionique, Dassault Electronique, and even Thomson-Csf became Thales ... The base was that of Tolemaida.
Colombia has not bought a burst, one can reasonably think that it was pure vacation that this small excursion, disguised or not. Although ... During their searches, the tax inspectors fall on the invitations and the menus of the days in the villa of Gaubert (in photo to the left that of Couzi, seen from the interior of the central patio), but also on Others much more intriguing: "Other photos, seized by the police, show the visit of the neighboring military base, and the platoons in the row of onions in front of the flags. An essential of the cactus program. Those interested must carry "military outfits". On the spot, the small staff, here a servant, interviewed, confirms the close ties with the soldier: "In one occasion, the Gaubert had also been able to join Nilo in the pastrana helicopter. "When they came, we were eight or ten employees," continues Gladys. Someone took care of the garden. Another horses. There were around thirty horses - some were sold. Cows too, they had been marked with a crown. There was a linen and a team for the kitchen. The meal had to be ready at a very precise hour. The Gaubert had brought French dishes for invitation dinners. On a white sheet, Gladys redo the place with nostalgia. "The dining room was huge," she said. There were two laps. The princess's room who gave on the lake was huge too. It was an artificial lake. " Mediapart telling the episode of the female-princess of Gaubert, eager to offer a dress to one of her maids, and using in a small room (and not in a simple wardrobe) where there were a good hundred. A scene that also appears in one of the episodes of the Téléfavela, as shown here on the right. To believe that it was the villas that dictated a good part of the scenario ... as empty as the current Swiss accounts of Gaubert.
"Jean-Philippe, Thierry and the Princess inaugurated the neighboring military base of the ESPRO, reports the former housekeeper.They became the friends of the commander."They infiltrated", plague Joachim Parga, retired soldier and "controller of legality" at the town hall of Nilo."Even the police here escorted them!""A photo, moreover, testifies to these regular favors of the authorities". Andrés Pastrana Arango was the predecessor of Uribe, from 1998 to 2002: it was therefore under his mandate that the two villas were built. But but but butIn his discharge, it is the one who fought the most against drugs in the country. He had indeed won the election against Ernesto Samper Pizano, previous president who had been recognized to have been closely mixed with narco-trafitors (hisWoman fausing herself to surprise in unequivocal telephone conversations). We come back, therefore.
The guests of Gaubert and Couzi therefore visited the "famous" base of Tolemaida (but why therefore in uniforms?). However, it still worked for the chronicle in 2004, due to the behavior of the mercenaries who trained there. What seriously worry once again, knowing who worked on this basis, and what was going on exactly. "We could also note that, in a much less noticed case, in October 2004, it was revealed that the contractual workers of Dyncorp operating at the air base in Tolemaida, Colombia, distributed a video in which they could be observed by train to violate young minor girls from the city of Melgar. This video was even sold on the main streets of Bogota. Now, the Colombian lawyers' collective was not aware of a criminal investigation conducted with these Acts involving minors. According to the follow -up work carried out by the lawyer of lawyers, we discovered that one of the minors involved in the videos had committed suicide shortly after the publication of one of the videos "notes David Isenberg, Author of "Shadow Force: Private Security Contractors in Iraq". It was not the first time that the people of Dyncorp have been awarded.
The mercenaries of Dyncorp were actually emerging from a similar scandal in Bosnia, during the war of the same name. The very young girls at the time, not to say children (between 12 and 15 years old) were not Bosnian or Serbs and had been "imported" from Russia or Romania: it was human trafficking Characterized. The Insight review revealing their facts of debauchery, a constant at home. Aggravating, the employee of Dyncorp who had denounced the facts, Ben Johnston, had also testified to the presence of "politicians" with the Orgies organized at the base in Bosnia. No serious investigation had been carried out by the USA, one of the officials of Dyncorp, John Hirtz, supervisor in Bosnia and his assistant Kevin Werner declaring that there was nothing to do. They will be continued later for rape. Victor Malarek, in the book "The natashas, inside the new global sex trade" will describe these generalized traffic and will return to the particular case of Tolemeida. In Colombia ditto, justice will drag its feet: on the total of crimes committed by the military, murders or rapes, in fact, "impunity has also been consolidated at an alarming, almost absolute rate" affirms the "Rebellion" site. "According to a 2010 report of the United Nations Special Rapporteur on arbitrary executions, Philip Alston, impunity in the country at the period covers 98.5% of cases."
The case of Dyncorp does not arrange with the heavy file gathered in February 2007 in the name of the lawyer of lawyers; in which assassinations and drugs were clearly linked. In particular the case of bottles filled with heroin seized on the basis of El Dorado, ready for Bogota, and intended for the base of Patrick in Florida in May 2000. The Colombian police officer who had discovered traffic will be immediately dismissed From his duties, on pressure from the Narcotics office of the United States Embassy in Bogota. Or the case in 2002 of Alexander Wakefield Ross, 25 years old, employed by Dyncorp, killed in a ground accident of a Bronco intended for "fumigation" (with herbicide!), Judged by his mother to be a Died disguised, his son who mentioned drug trafficking on the basis of Putumayo. Or the case in 2005 of the 16 kilos of cocaine seized on board a device from Apiay (in the department of Meta) to Texas. One of the accused officials had worked on the basics of Larandia and Tumaco (in the Narino), where he had seen "military cans full of alkaloids".
Tolemeida, a base where Dyncorp is still raging in 2012. Do you remember my articles on the release of Ingrid Betancourt? I had repeatedly described a man with an orange cap dedicated to Texas Longhorns several times, an American football team. William R. Brownfield, the one who was not born in Texas but constantly displays an immoderate love for this state regularly follows meetings between American and Colombians. We saw him on July 2, 2008, we find him with the same headgear in July 2010, assistant to the meeting between General Douglas Mr. Fraser Commandant du Southern Command and the chief of the Colombian armies General Freddy Padilla. Same cap, and the same way to mingle this which does not necessarily look at it: it is indeed the US ambassador to Colombia! Or was, because on September 22, 2010, he was appointed secretary of the Bureau of International Narcotics and Law Enforcement Affairs (or INL). INL has 348 flying devices, OV-10, AT-802 (a "crop duster" from Air Tractor, but armed!), T-65 (from Ayres), and even C-27 Spartan Transport And electronic watch and Hueys, Blackhawk and K-Max helicopters (which has become a drone!), Of which almost half lies in Colombia. Now inl is also the biggest principal for Dyncorp (acquired in 2003 by Computer Sciences Corporation (CSC), which has always watered the Republican Party. The man has, as I had clearly indicated, always been Very close to Dyncorp, and therefore covered the abuses led by the employees of the mercenaries firm. To see it today in charge of the anti -Rogue fight is otherwise laughable at least distressing. Because in 2003, more than half of the contracts Signed with Dyncorpt were for the CIA or the FBI, and large suspicions of conflicts of direct interests for these contracts we regularly surface. "On November 29, 2008, in a long article, the New York Times had been mentioned the conflict of obvious interest between hiring by Veritas Capital Fund, mother company of Dyncorp, of General Barry McCaffrey, because the latter had previously served as "drug tsar", in the White House where he had pushed the partnership public-private in terms of Wikipedia Wikipedia. McCaffrey of Defense Solutions, a mercenaries company, is one of those famous "consultants" who poisoned all TV channels in the United States, especially in NBC, where he had done more than 1000 interventions, to justify the American intervention in Iraq, because his own firm benefited directly from it: he had been mixed with the sending of the catastrophic Polish armored cars (**), having convinced Petraeus to equip the Iraqis, while they will prove to be unusable. At all stages, suspicions of large commissions paid had been mentioned (even towards Petraeus). Maccaffrey was also one of the great "lobbyists" of the hunt for bin Laden (which has been even less trace since yesterday)!
The three American hostages detained with Betancourt worked for the CIA, as we know (in the photo on the right their Cessna Caravan 208 N1116g of Microwave Systems, posed in disaster), and were paid by Dyncorp. Their plane had been previously photographed in the middle of a desert based on camp., Near Tonopah (Nevada). Before he was even taken prisoner, their plane having been shot in February 2003, we discovered what Dyncorp played in South America played. Dyncorp was discovered even before taking hostage: "In June 2001, the unpleasant presence of Dyncorp in the war against drugs in Colombia was exposed when an American missionary plane was shot in Peru, leaving a mother and its Little dead girl "(I talked about it here, especially with the tempoigning of Celerino Castillo). According to an AP dispatch ("the incident in Peru puts in the spotlight of shadow practices", by Lisa Hoffman, on April 24, 2001). Dyncorp, but also its subcontractors: "Another subcontractor of Dyncorp Aerospace Technology in the so-called war against drugs (" Colombia Plan ") called East (Eagle Aviation Service and Technology, inc) has a similar notoriety . East "has indeed helped Oliver North to transport firearms to Nicaragua in what would be known as the Iran-Contra affair", wrote to the AP the journalist Ken Guggenheim, on June 5, 2001. Founded in the years 1980 by Richard Gadd, East secretly provides weapons and ammunition to Nicaraguans. General Richard Secord hired Gadd in 1985 to supervise arms deliveries, and it is a safe bet that drugs stole north on the way back, with the infamous operation "Guns-For-Drugs "From Oliver North. We fall back on the links between CIA and drugs, means of payment for weapons in exchange ...
Tired of its espionage services and their accommodation especially with the shenanigans of Dyncorp, and scandals arose in recent months, Manuel Santos made the surprise decision, on January 20, to dissolve his intelligence agency, DAS, causing A beautiful earthquake. Colombian information had gone so far as to spy on the presidency itself! "But the worst part is that intelligence agents have been engaged in serious crimes. A handful of agency officials are currently still in service while dozens of agents are either under investigation or faced with accusations of having compiled illegal files on the opposition leaders for former president Alvaro Uribe (...) A former director was himself found guilty of having plotted assassinations. The United States, which supported the agency For decades, he cut him off in 2010, and now the Colombian government, the closest ally of Washington in Latin America, also decided to reject the entire agency "specifies NPR. Did Santos realize that beyond the filing, his espionage agency had taken a model on the CIA to the point of actively participating in drug trafficking?
The drugs, on which we fall again, or at least with strange similarities. In all the large file brought together by Mediapart, there remains a document which intrigues more than the others: it is an email, sent late by Couzi (only on July 1st!), Which clearly manages the two villas in the Absence of Gaubert, and who writes things that seriously lead to question, while the wind of the ball launched by judge Van Ruymbeke on Thierry Gaubert has just been felt. Obviously, the pot with discovered roses is the fighting of combat to get rid of the bulky Colombian gift. The intercepted email first evokes the fact of destroying a "mirador" and destroying or repairing "a quay" because "it gives a very bad image of the house, especially for a possible resale" ... specifies Couzi. A "quay" that would have been damaged by what or by what manipulation? A truck who came to take it (we can hardly imagine a "car quay"!)? What would a truck come to this location, to the point of having built a more accessible reception area for it? The villa was not enlarged since like that of Couzi who won a turret, so that was part of her initial plans. And why then a "Mirador" in a vacation property? As far as I know, Colombia does not offer the pelombus hunting! What does this military vocabulary do in the description of this vacation property? Even more surprising, in the same email, the same author speaks of a "tunnel which would only serve the terrace of your room" ... a "tunnel"? To access the dry at the swimming pool several tens of meters from the villa or to reach the second, that of Couzi? Why would two villas near each other thus communicate? We rarely bathe in rainy weather!
How a villa must there have a "tunnel", a kind of manufacturing, as we know, very linked to the practices of a man named Escobar, who once truffle all his houses to be able to escape more easily ? Would the ugly influence everything that can be done now in Colombia, the teleffavelas openly praising his memory, as we have seen, to the point of influencing local architecture? In short, from Escobar, all Colombian villas would be fitted with tunnels? I still want to believe it, this one: but admit that it is rather ... intriguing! In Mexico, we will fall as late on a tunnel made by Joaquin Guzman Loera, "El Chapo" ("Le Grassouillet"), discovered and traveled by Mike Unzueta of the U.S. Immigration and Customs Shall. 670 meters long, he brought together a kitchen from one of the Housing of El Chapo, in Tijuana, to two other houses ... from San Diego. El Chapo, one of the main sponsors of Mexico, sentenced in 1993, had managed to escape in 2001 by hiding in a dirty climbing truck from high security prison where he served his 20 -year prison sentence. Today, it would hold a billion dollars ... Somewhere, still being on the run. Would he have said too much, there? Because a lot of innuendo resident in this email, now, which says too much without saying enough! Because how can we also understand the reflection of a Colombian policeman in front of the villa: "This Fina is a fortress", sighs a police officer from Bogota "specifies Mediapart. A vacation fortress? Apart ... The Fort de Brégançon (and Yes!), We know very little about it!
Here in any case in comparison how we describe the villas of Escobar, which have become tourist attractions, including those here of Tulum, in Mexico, become it luxury hotel since (the "Casa Magna") or, if we reread, a detail shocks more than others. "It is true that the buildings share certain curious characteristics: a tunnel which exceeds 100 meters which separates the two structures, and an unusual roof. Despite a terrace a little too narrow to serve as a reliable heliport, the house offers many belvederes natural, and one could imagine that they are patrolled by armed guards on the alert to monitor the federal traveling by sea or plowing the jungle with their jeeps. The American authorities, however, do not seem to have knowledge of these properties . " The Hacienda Nápoles (here on the right in photo), another mark of Escobar, built in Puerto Triunfo, in the department of Antioquia 155 km north of Bogota presents the same peculiarities. And differences; Like this aeroglener, in particular to circulate around its property surrounded by water! Escobar came to jet there, near his property. She too has become a tourist site (here her visit; the same as that which TF1 had made!). Strange similarities!
Apart from this purely architectural episode, what could a barrack visit rhyme that seemed essential to this place? And to do it in uniforms? What was the final interest? What "deal" had been able to have passed between this fine team of episodic tourists and the Colombian army, or with the ex-president Pastrano, army whose essential role in the sector is to hunt for drug traffickers in Blackhawk helicopter ? How could this have been "vacation"? Dassault has once sold Mirage V, but they are retired today (where Kfirs were replaced by the Israelis!). But to sell its 3D software from Dassault Systems today seems much more promising. In the end, in any case there is a sacred cactus of planted on the presidential road of Nicolas Sarkozy: his friendships with Thierry Gaubert with fairly gratin Colombian adventures are likely to cost him very dear. "To entrust him with power, it is," said Jacques Chirac to his relatives, like organizing a barbecue left in the middle of summer in the Esterel "(see Marianne, April 14, 2007). Chirac has always had the sense of the formula ... incendiary.
The other fire, judicial this one, lit by business is therefore not ready to be extinguished, and this very thorny cactus seems well planted through the road taken by the current head of the State. Especially that we learned this Wednesday that more spine was added to the cactus, with the announcement by Switzerland of the obligation in their country of origin of bank deposits in Switzerland ... "The Minister of Finance, Eveline Widmer-Schlumpf, obtained the green light from the Federal Council on Wednesday to eventually impose on banks the principle of self-control of their foreign customers. The objective being to "develop concrete measures by September 2012. 'Acts to avoid as much as possible any abusive use of banking secrecy ", specifies the press release from the Swiss authorities. Concretely, it will force the Swiss banks to ensure that the money deposited in Switzerland by foreign customers is well declared in their country of residence. More restrictive, they will be held, in the event of suspicion of tax evasion or dubious origin of the funds, under a so -called "clean money" plan, to be diligent and to check the accuracy declarations of their customers ". This is going to blow up like a wind of panic among the people mentioned here ... and many others too. With the statements of Hélène Gaubert, the Swiss decision takes on a singular appearance: "According to Hélène de Yugoslavia, her husband went about" once every two months "in Switzerland, but" did not speak of the amounts nor me showed the tickets. Generally, he brought them back to small bags. "Once, Thierry Gaubert told him that he was going to hand over the money" to Nicolas Bazire ", then director of the campaign of Edouard Balladur. The princess maintains Also that her husband was sometimes going to Switzerland "accompanied by Ziad Takieddine", Franco-Lebanese intermediary indicted for "complicity and concealment of abuse of corporate goods" in the financial component of the Karachi affair. " Nicolas Sarkozy, or France of the suitcases full of tickets in Switzerland?
Beaten, the ship of his Courbit Courbit Pudding, the desire for Fouquet's bis being definitively buried (in a very mediated and very telephoned hiccups), Nicolas Sarkozy can always consider going to rest in the villa "Cactus" who knows.He will not even have to warn: there, there is always a small staff to prepare the arrivals!
(*) Do not forget the first marriage of Gaubert either with the heiress of the Barrière casinos. She remarry with Dominique Desseigne, another great friend of Sarkozy. He is the owner of the Fouquet's, since the death of his wife very courted by "Corinne Bouygues, an Darty girl, an heiress Desmarets (her father being one of the biggest world fortunes and another friend of Sarkozy) or the Lebanese Mouna Ayoub, with whom his affair lasted more than two years "teaches us the concierge of Paris-Match who forgets to specify that Ooub was then" married to the Saudi billionaire Nasser Al-Rashid "(including the super-yacht, the lady moura , 108 m long, will cheers miserably in front of Cannes on May 20, 2007!) ... A little world, in which some try to return: "We recently lent him a lightning adventure with Rachida Dati. He Judge, it is true "beautiful, intelligent and lively"; specifying: "And my children love him. He is a competent and courageous minister." At the Fouquet's, in any case, the crisis does not exist and designs said it With cynicism: "With the exception of Fouquet's Barrière, which has 100 private customers, all still billionaire s Even if they have lost half of their fortune, the group's palaces have 50 corporate clientele and it is she who saber in expenses. »Decreasing cynicism!
(**) Extract: "The ministry of al-Khuzaei had bought Polish helicopters (original Hindu Russians) in a pitiful state, unable to fly, and" armored "jeeps from the same country that did not resist Kalashnikovs shots. The famous MP5 Heckler and Koch rifles bought $ 3500 Pieces were to be Egyptian copies at 200 dollars. He also ordered bullets from 7.62 to 16 hundred rooms, while they were worth between 4 and 6. As an intermediary, he had used an Irako-Polish Iraqi-Polish seller in Poland, in a small garage, Ziad Cattan, who had been bombed responsible for national orders. Before being a mechanic he had sold flowers and shoes. .. The man will sign for 89 armaments command contracts for $ 1.3 billion. At Bumar, the main Polish armaments firm, he had bought his armored jeeps Dzik 167,000 dollars: they were The base of Iveco vans, covered with sheets . 600 models were planned: Petraeus and Nick Beadle, from the Ministry of the English fefense rejected the helicopters but accepted the jeeps. During a test made by a journalist, the vehicle was unable to climb a 45 ° coast: its 150 hp engine was not too small for its 4 1/2 tonnes! The Poles had taken the first Iveco who came and the shielding plates, without changing the engine ... In front of the Mahdi insurgents, in April 2008, the vehicles will not resist long .... : If the Iveco disguised will reach by boat, the ammunition will be via Aerocom planes, namely those of Viktor Bout, presented everywhere as the death merchant ... already at that time. "
