Foreign Office knew of coup
Deux extraits de ce long article en anglais sur le site du journal « news.scotsman.com » :
[He also hopes to establish what contact was made between British, French and Spanish diplomats over the plot. « There are too many unanswered questions, » he added. « I believe the Foreign Secretary must come clean and explain precisely what the British government knew, when it knew it, and why apparently it took no action as a result of it. »
Mr Mandelson, now Britain’s sole European Commissioner, used to rent a house from Eli Calil, a businessmen alleged by Mr Obiang’s office to have been the mastermind behind the botched coup - which would have benefited several oil companies. This has drawn staunch denials from Mr Mandelson, who said through a spokesman that he « never had a discussion with anyone about this alleged coup ». ]