The new wave of declassifications linked to Jeffrey Epstein is splashing French elites. At the heart of the documents, Jack Lang appears as a key intermediary for the financier in France, within a vast network of influence combining money, power, and sexual exploitation.
The crisis opened by the latest release of declassified Jeffrey Epstein documents on January 30 is far from over. In many countries, well beyond the United States of America alone, political and ruling elites are directly tainted by the sordid pedocriminal affair, as well as by the depth of the influence network built by Epstein.
France is no exception. Among the figures concerned are, for example, former Macron-aligned economy minister Bruno Le Maire, banking executive Ariane de Rothschild, or RN leader Louis Aliot. But the name that appears by far the most often in the documents — nearly 670 times — is that of Jack Lang, former minister, ex-leader of the Socialist Party, and president of the Institut du Monde Arabe.
Although he has played a less central role in recent years, Jack Lang was, for several decades, one of the unavoidable faces of the Fifth Republic. Minister of Culture for ten years under Mitterrand, Minister of Education under Jospin, a figure in the rapprochement between the right wing of the Socialist Party and Nicolas Sarkozy, five-time member of parliament, Member of the European Parliament for three years, mayor of Blois for eleven years: he held almost every conceivable office. Since 2013, with the support of François Hollande and Emmanuel Macron, he has headed the Institut du Monde Arabe.
However, the new documents seem to highlight one reality: Jack Lang would have been, if not the, then one of Epstein’s representatives in France.
As the exchanges show, Epstein primarily used his pedocriminal network and the revenues derived from it to maintain a vast network of influence around the world. Jack Lang and his daughter Caroline Lang appear to have occupied a prominent place within it. This is suggested, for example, by one of the emails sent by Epstein to one of his collaborators regarding the funding of a documentary praising Lang: “I am contributing… so that he remains on the team.”
While there is no certainty as to what Epstein meant by “the team,” it is not difficult to understand that this is the term he used to refer to his international influence network. Membership in “the team” was made possible through numerous attentions and favors. Indeed, far from being a one-off form of assistance, the documents suggest that Jack Lang regularly benefited over several years from the financier’s largesse: funding for trips, loans of private jets, gourmet dinners — all generous gifts directed toward the former minister.
Lang’s daughter, Caroline Lang, for her part, jointly owned with the American pedocriminal an offshore company based in the Virgin Islands, suspected of having been used to launder part of the funds destined for Epstein’s influence network. While Caroline Lang was forced to resign from the presidency of the Independent Producers’ Union following these revelations, her father has, for his part, clung to his position as head of the Institut du Monde Arabe. To this end, he has become increasingly entangled over the past several days in ever more chaotic justifications, stating on Wednesday, February 4, on France Info that Epstein was not “a friend,” even though his name appears 670 times in the financier’s correspondence. In the same interview, the former minister claimed to have had no knowledge of any of the pedocriminal affairs involving Epstein before 2019, despite a conviction and numerous complaints, and to have never “done any business” nor “ever received a single cent from Jeffrey Epstein,” despite evidence to the contrary provided by the documents.
No document formally demonstrates that Lang benefited from anything other than financial assistance from the billionaire, but in any case, it is difficult to imagine that he was unaware of the origin of this money.
Whatever the nature of the services rendered by Epstein to Lang, they served a precise objective: to exploit the position held by the apparatchik within the French state apparatus and his access to the entourage of numerous political and economic leaders, in order to allow the billionaire to exert his influence. For example, exchanges published in the leaks suggest that in 2019 Epstein relied on Lang to directly influence a speech by President Emmanuel Macron so that the latter would speak in favor of the Pritzker Architecture Prize, which he indeed did.
The Quai d’Orsay has just announced the summoning of the politician this Sunday, February 8, undoubtedly with the aim of dismissing him and reducing the scandal to the “deviations” of a single individual. Yet beyond Lang’s involvement, an entire system emerges: that of a vast network of sexual slavery linking the world’s grand bourgeoisie, whose primary victims were young girls and women from working-class backgrounds, reduced to the status of merchandise by a quasi-mafia organization. From Epstein’s links with Peter Thiel to the financier’s role in the use of the Palantir software for the colonial surveillance of Palestinian territories by Israel, the Epstein scandal goes far beyond the mere incrimination of a pedocriminal network: it demonstrates the moral bankruptcy and corruption of the ruling classes on an international scale.
We harbor no illusions about the American or French governments delivering justice to the thousands of victims of Jeffrey Epstein, after months of document retention and leniency. To demand justice for the billionaire’s victims, it is urgent to call for the establishment of an independent commission of inquiry, independent of the state, organized by workers and the popular classes, to shed light on Epstein’s crimes and those of his accomplices.
Source : Revolution permanente