Tapie 'should face charges'
A French parliamentary commission recommended yesterday that Bernard Tapie, the controversial entrepreneur and former government minister, should lose his parliamentary immunity from prosecution to permit proceedings against him over his business affairs, Julian Nundy writes from Paris.
The recommendation now has to go before the National Assembly, which is likely to accept it.
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