Bernard Bajolet
French diplomat and civil servant From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
French diplomat and civil servant From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
Bernard Bajolet (born 21 May 1949)[1] is a French diplomat and civil servant. On 10 April 2013 he was appointed as head of the French secret service, the Directorate-General for External Security (Direction générale des services extérieurs). He was the French Ambassador to Afghanistan from 2011 to 2013.
Bernard Bajolet | |
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| Director of the Directorate-General for External Security | |
| In office 10 April 2013 – 20 May 2017 | |
| President | François Hollande |
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| Born | 21 May 1949 Dombasle-sur-Meurthe, France |
| Alma mater | Sciences Po, ÉNA |
| Profession | Diplomat |
Bajolet was born in 1949 at Dombasle-sur-Meurthe and went to Lycée Henri Poincaré in Nancy, France.[1] He then studied at Paris' Sciences Po, and graduated from the École nationale d'administration in 1975. That same year he joined the diplomatic service.[1]
On 18 October 2022, Bernard Bajolet is indicted for "complicity in attempted extortion" and "arbitrary attack on individual freedom by a person holding public authority", against Alain Dumenil, a Franco-Swiss businessman who accuses the intelligence service of having used coercion to demand money from him in 2016..
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