He agreed to come and answer questions. But he did not want to watch the images from the show. Asked to react on the set of Further investigationJack Lang did not want to “hear the same stupidities, the same mistakes and the same lies repeated” about his involvement in the Jeffrey Epstein affair. “Fed up,” declared the former Minister of Culture. According to American investigators, the names of Jack Lang and his daughter Caroline appear several times in emails exchanged with the serial child molester who committed suicide in 2019. The one who resigned from the Arab World Institute after the revelation of the facts tried to defend himself, sometimes clumsily. “I feel great,” he insisted. Before getting annoyed by the questions.
Questioned by journalist Tristan Waleckx, Jack Lang tried, like everyone else, to downplay his links with Epstein. “He is a character who, in civilian life, was welcomed by everyone. Nobody knew that behind this kind face, there was a monster,” Jack Lang tried to defend from the outset. The documents made public by the American justice system, however, mention his name 673 times in exchanges with the sex criminal and reveal links of interest with the American financier.
The 86-year-old politician even describes himself as a “little Frenchman”, taking as an example Bill Clinton, President of the United States, who also denies having been aware of Epstein’s actions. “I don’t deny things. He wasn’t a friend, he was an acquaintance. I am not part of his entourage. » Except that in his emails, the child molester said the opposite: “I feel part of the family”, Epstein wrote to Caroline Lang, describing Jack Lang as “a great friend”. “I am a warm person,” retorted the former minister.
Jack Lang gets angry at questions
Jack Lang would have known Jeffrey Epstein through the filmmaker Woody Allen, accused of sexual assault whom he continues to support. He admitted to having been “only once” to her house in Paris. “Why do you doubt my word? I learned like everyone else that he was a criminal,” the politician annoys, before saying that he did not “stick his nose in the trash or newspaper articles” to find out about the first suspicions about the child molester. “I was not an intermediary, neither commercial nor political,” insists Jack Lang in the face of the multiple emails which implicate him.
It is also during questions about his daughter’s involvement that he gets annoyed. In an email addressed to Epstein, Caroline Lang is concerned about the first press articles evoking the true face of the sex criminal. “I have total confidence in my daughter,” he insisted. Involvement in an offshore company set up by Epstein and which is the subject of an investigation by the financial prosecutor? “My daughter was dragged into this.” The former minister will even “aggravate his case”, by supporting Gérard Depardieu or Roman Polanski, themselves accused of child abuse. “You are incredibly ignorant,” says Jack Lang to Tristan Waleckx. Before saying that he “may have done something stupid” by coming on the set of the show. And even to call themselves a “victim” of this affair.
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