Michel Roussin - Timeline

Timeline

• 1972-76: Military commander at the Hôtel Matignon, residency of prime minister Jacques Chirac.
• 1977-81: Chief of staff of Alexandre de Marenches at the SDECE.
• 1983: Worked for the president of the Compagnie Générale des Eaux
• 1984-86: Chief of staff of Jacques Chirac at the Paris municipal hall and then at Matignon
• 1993-94: Minister of cooperation under Edouard Balladur's government.
• 1994: Investigated in the frame of the "Jean-Claude Méry affair". He resigns from his ministerial functions, but is then acquitted.
• 1996: President of SAE International, a subsidiary of the Eiffage group. He is charged of a special committee on Africa by the Medef's direction.
• 1999: Death of Jean-Claude Méry.
• 2000: Daily newspaper Le Monde publish the integral content of Jean-Claude Méry's posthumous videocassette, in which Jean-Claude Méry, member of the executive committee of the RPR party, declared having given 5 million francs in cash to Michel Roussin, then Chirac's chief of staff, "in the presence of Mr. Chirac". Investigative magistrate Eric Halphen would convoque on these grounds president Chirac as witness in March 2001.