Since May 2023, Loup Bommier has been working closely with the Azerbaijani diplomatic representation in France. However, in the landscape of influence, the controversial mayor of Gurgy-le-Château is not just anyone. Portrait.
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Read more: Loup Bommier: departmental referent for the Union des Droites and lobbyist for Azerbaijan
Jean-Pierre Guinhut is a former French diplomat. More specifically, he was French ambassador to Azerbaijan between 1997 and 2001. He succeeded Jean Perrin in this post (1992-1996). Like his predecessor, Jean-Pierre Guinhut cultivated a genuine fascination for Azerbaijan which, on his return to France, led him to join a central structure of the dictatorship's lobby.
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Rachida Dati, former Minister of Justice (2007-2009), Mayor of the 7th arrondissement of Paris since 2008 and Minister of Culture since January 11, 2024, is a close friend of Azerbaijan's representatives in France. We already mentioned her in our publications dedicated to Olivier Pardo and Adela Naibova.
It's time for a chronological review of the links between Aliyev's dictatorship and this minister, who has been under investigation since 2021 for “passive corruption” and “influence peddling”.
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Jean-Michel Brun, born in Paris on June 4, 1950, is a leading member of the pro-Azerbaijan lobby in France.
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Read more: Jean-Michel Brun: self-proclaimed journalist and lobbyist for the dictatorship
Born in Hanoi on February 3, 1954, Jean-François Desjacques is a member of the Azerbaijan lobby in France.
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Read more: Jean-François Desjacques: a dandy seduced by Aliyev
Between 2017 and 2023, Alain Roumestand was Aliyev's propaganda relay in France, alongside other lobbyists for the Azerbaijani dictatorship.
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Read more: Alain Roumestand: a pseudo-journalist relaying Aliyev's propaganda
Grégory Herpe, photographer, has been a relay in France for the Azerbaijani dictatorship since 2018, particularly concerning Nagorno-Karabakh. Today, he continues to frequent the Azerbaijani embassy in France.
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Since at least 2010, Nathalie Goulet has been a key lobbyist for the Azerbaijani dictatorship in France, particularly in the Senate, where she has been a senator since 2007.
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Read more: Nathalie Goulet: Ilham Aliyev's ambassador to the Senate
Alain Houpert, born in Dijon on August 13, 1957, is a radiologist and has been a senator for the Les Républicains party since 2008. A member of the Association des Amis de l'Azerbaïdjan and chairman of the France-Azerbaijan friendship group in the French Senate, he is one of the pillars of pro-Azerbaijan lobbying in French institutions.
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Read more: Alain Houpert: Aliyev's relay in the French Senate
The France-Azerbaijan Friendship Group, reformed in 2017 with the help of lobbyist Sihem Souid's Victory Capital & Advisory consultancy, was born with the idea of the Azerbaijani dictatorship extending its influence all the way to the French National Assembly, as it had succeeded in doing in the European Union, via the aptly named “caviar diplomacy”.
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Read more: The France-Azerbaijan Friendship Group: once a lobbyist, always a lobbyist
Jean-François Mancel, born on March 1, 1948, is the former president of the Association des Amis de l'Azerbaïdjan, which he chaired between 2014 and October 2021, before handing over to former Les Républicains MP Jérôme Lambert.
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Hedva Ser, born in Israel on September 20, 1948, is a Franco-Israeli painter and member of the board of the Association des Amis de l'Azerbaïdjan.
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Jérôme Béguin, born June 29, 1978, is a member of the Board of Directors of the Association des Amis de l'Azerbaïdjan.
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Jean Perrin was the first French ambassador to be sent to Azerbaijan, between 1992 and 1996.
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Read more: Jean Perrin: a former ambassador nostalgic for the father and supporter of the son
Karim Ifrak is an Islamic scholar, doctor of the École Pratique des Hautes Études (EPHE) and researcher at the CNRS.
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André Villiers, former deputy for the 2nd constituency of Yonne for the Horizons et apparentés party, is a long-standing lobbyist for Azerbaijan.
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