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French prefect and former European Parlement member Jean-Charles Marchiani (R), former right-hand man of the French government for secret missions, arrives with his lawyer, Maitre Jacques Tremolet de Villers, to the magistrates'
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Former prefect Jean-Charles Marchiani arriving at Paris courthouse in Paris, France on October 6, 2008, for the opening of a trial over a vast 'arms-to-Angola' scandal involving forty-two people including the son
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