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Dassault instructs staff to take evasive action over prickly questions

French aerospace group Dassault Aviation, designer and maker of the Rafale multi-role fighter plane and the Falcon business jet, has instructed its staff on how to respond to, and notably how to avoid directly answering, prickly questions over its weapons exports to "dictatorships" and its sales of private jets for carbon-rich travel by the wealthy few. Justine Brabant and Mickaël Correia reveal here the group’s bullet-point internal documents on how to evade the issues, and detail the hypocrisy of its PR campaign.

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Mediapart has obtained access to the contents of internal documents from French aircraft manufacturer Dassault Aviation, designer and maker of the Rafale fighter plane and the Falcon business jet, which advises its staff on how to respond, and notably how to avoid directly answering, prickly questions over its activities, notably its weapons exports to “dictatorships” and sales of private jets for the wealthy few who leave outsized carbon footprints.

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Since January 7, 2023 our colleague and friend Mortaza Behboudi has been imprisoned in Afghanistan, in the Taliban prisons.

We do not forget him and call for his release.

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