AN UNUSUALLY SATISFYING PERP WALK:

Unresolved scandals await Chirac's departure (Katrin Bennhold, March 14, 2007, International Herald Tribune)

When President Jacques Chirac leaves office in May, a fat legal file carrying his name will come out of a safe at a court in the Paris suburb of Nanterre and land on the desk of Judge Alain Philibeaux.

A dormant party-financing case in Nanterre, which focuses on the time when Chirac, 74, was mayor of Paris from 1977 to 1995, is the most serious of a number of scandals that could catch up with him when he loses immunity from prosecution accorded the head of state.