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PARIS, April 6 (UPI) -- French prosecutors have charged 42 people, including the son of former President Francois Mitterand, with selling arms to Angola.
Prosecutors charged that the defendants sold almost $800 million in weapons to the Popular Front for the Liberation of Angola, the Angolan president's Cuban- and Soviet-backed forces, during the 26-year civil war that ended in 2002, the BBC reported.
Also charged with Jean-Christophe Mitterand, who faces bribery counts, were a former close adviser to the late French president, Jacques Attali, and the ex-interior minister, Charles Pasqua, the BBC reported. All three deny the charges.
The investigation into the arms sales has centered on two businessmen -- now missing -- whom prosecutors believe sold weapons to President Jose Eduardo Dos Santos of Angola to help him fight the rebel Unita forces backed by the United States and white-ruled South Africa.
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