Friday, July 1, 2011

Prosecuting ex-dictators is dumb, dumb, dumb

A French judicial official says the Paris prosecutor's office has opened two judicial inquiries into money laundering allegations against the ousted presidents of Egypt and Tunisia.

The official says the inquiries are not exclusively focused on Egypt's Honsi Mubarak or Tunisia's Zine El Abidine Ben Ali, thus allowing the investigating judges to examine the deposed leaders' entourage for evidence of "money laundering in an organized group."

The official says judicial inquiries were opened Tuesday. She was speaking Friday on condition of anonymity, in accordance with French judicial regulations.

Citizens' groups filed the complaints with the French court earlier this year, after Ben Ali and Mubarak were toppled in popular uprisings.
http://www.sfexaminer.com/news/2011/06/french-court-opens-probe-mubarak-ben-ali?category=18

If you want these guys to peacefully resign, you need to leave them alone after they resign.

Otherwise, the next one will go down fighting.

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