PARIS: France’s foreign minister has requested a probe after the name of a French diplomat on leave appeared in numerous emails to convicted sex offender Jeffrey Epstein.
“I was appalled,” Foreign Minister Jean-Noel Barrot said on Wednesday.
In an X post late on Tuesday, he said he was referring allegations against Fabrice Aidan to the public prosecutor, and launching an internal inquiry.
The ministry described Aidan as a “principal foreign affairs secretary on leave for personal reasons and holding positions in the private sector.”
A mere mention in released files from the investigation into the disgraced New York financier, who killed himself in prison 2019 while charged with sex trafficking underage girls, does not imply wrongdoing.
