FROM CORRUPTION TO WAR IN YEMEN, THE SECRET HISTORY OF FRENCH TANKS •
« Documents obtained by Wikileaks and shared with Mediapart, DER SPIEGEL and la Repubblica
unveil a secret state: the corruption hidden behind the sale of French
tanks in the United Arab Emirates. These are the same tanks that are
plaguing the war in Yemen today, causing the worst humanitarian crisis
in the world, according to the UN.
The French tanks used for
three years by the United Arab Emirates in Yemen, in a war that has
already killed more than 10,000 (mostly civilians) and provoked,
according to the UN, the worst humanitarian crisis in the world, hide a
heavy secret.
A state secret a quarter of a century old.
His revelation today opens the door on the unpublished confession of
state corruption through the payment by a French government arms company
of 200 million dollars of black money on accounts located in tax
havens, according to documents obtained by Wikileaks
and shared with Mediapart, Der Spiegel (Germany) and La Repubblica
(Italy), who were able to authenticate them by an independent
investigation.
These documents offer a rare dive into the
mysteries of one of the largest arms contracts signed by France, now the
third largest arms exporting country in the world. »
