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Kader Arif resigns, replaced by Jean-Marc Todeschini

Kader Arif at the Douaumont ossuary for the centenary of Verdun (credit: Min. Défense / ECPAD / Karaghesian)
Kader Arif at the Douaumont ossuary for the centenary of Verdun (credit: Min. Défense / ECPAD / Karaghesian)

(B2) It's a small earthquake in the middle of the French defense. The Secretary of State for Veterans Affairs, former MEP, Kader Arif submitted his resignation today. in order to provide all the details aimed at establishing the truth in the context of the preliminary investigation carried out by the financial prosecutor's office in which his name is mentioned “Specifies the Elysée in a press release. Jean-Marc Todeschini, Senator for Moselle, who replaces him with the same title of "Secretary of State to the Minister of Defence, in charge of veterans and remembrance". This resignation follows in particular an investigation by Mediapart which revealed that the offices of the Secretary of State were raided in early November. A preliminary investigation was opened in September on public contracts awarded by the Midi-Pyrénées regional council to relatives of the Secretary of State. He has the advantage of having been chief of staff to Jean-Pierre Masseret, who held this ministerial post from 1997 to 2001 (under Lionel Jospin).

Nicolas Gros Verheyde

Chief editor of the B2 site. Graduated in European law from the University of Paris I Pantheon Sorbonne and listener to the 65th session of the IHEDN (Institut des Hautes Etudes de la Défense Nationale. Journalist since 1989, founded B2 - Bruxelles2 in 2008. EU/NATO correspondent in Brussels for Sud-Ouest (previously West-France and France-Soir).

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