Jack Lang, French former culture minister, posing with Jeffrey Epstein at the Louvre pyramid in Paris in a screengrab from a video released by the US Department of Justice on February 3, 2026. - / AFP
France's former culture minister Jack Lang has been summoned to the foreign ministry to explain his links with the convicted sex offender Jeffrey Epstein, a source close to the presidency told Agence France-Presse (AFP) on Thursday, February 5. The president's and prime minister's offices each "asked the foreign minister to summon him so he can give an explanation," the source said.
A foreign ministry source confirmed to AFP that Lang had been "summoned," without giving further details. Lang, 86, did not immediately respond to AFP's request to comment.
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