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Eight-year-old boy held for more than a week at French airport

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The boy, whose mother had put him on a flight from the Comoros Islands, was detained after trying to enter France on a false passport.
by La rédaction de Mediapart

'Karachi affair' suspect charged, held in France

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Arms dealer Ziad Takieddine had been detained on suspicion that he was making plans to flee the country by trying to buy a diplomatic passport.
by La rédaction de Mediapart

Arms dealer at centre of Sarkozy Libyan funding claims arrested amid fears he was set to flee country

France

Ziad Takieddine, who was a key intermediary between Sarkozy's entourage and the regime of Colonel Gaddafi and an important figure in the alleged illegal funding of the 1995 presidential campaign of Sarkozy’s political mentor and former prime minister Edouard Balladour, has been detained by police who suspect he was preparing to quit the country. The Franco-Lebanese businessman, who is under formal judicial investigation and forbidden to leave France, is said to have paid 200,000 euros to secure a Dominican Republic diplomatic passport (see above). Fabrice Arfi, Karl Laske, Michel Deléan and Albert Michel report.
by Fabrice Arfi, Karl Laske, Michel Deléan and Albert Michel

Depardieu shows off his new Russian passport

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Tax exile Gérard Depardieu has shown the press his new Russian passport before dining with President Vladimir Putin at Black Sea resort of Sochi.
by La rédaction de Mediapart

Gérard Depardieu says he's giving up French passport

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Actor claims he was "insulted" by critics for becoming a tax exile in Belgium and writes letter to prime minister renouncing his French passport.
by La rédaction de Mediapart