World IN BRIEF : FRANCE : Probe of President’s Rent Deal Dropped
From Times Wire Reports
The Paris public prosecutor has dropped an investigation into President Jacques Chirac over his low-rent, city-owned apartment, lifting a political cloud over the French leader. The case grew out of a March report in the satirical weekly Le Canard Enchaine that Paris’ Municipal Buildings Management Co. had bought Chirac’s rented apartment in 1990, allegedly to save him from eviction or a sharp rent increase.
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