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FRANCE 20/11/2013 French hostages: tense debriefing The French hostages who were held in the Sahel for three years are now safely home - but the fallout is only just beginning. [...]
FRANCE 06/11/2013 Defence ministry, DGSE rift grows French President Francois Hollande's fence-sitting has helped sour relations between the country's defence ministry and its external intelligence service. [...]
QATAR 24/07/2013 Crown prince at five An unexpected consequence of Sheikh Tamim becoming the new Emir [...]
FRANCE 24/07/2013 Legal responsibility to protect expatriate workers tested in court A complaint filed by the family of Pierre Legrand, a [...]
FRANCE QATAR 27/03/2013 Battle of influence over Qatari Diar Rivalry between Qatar's crown prince and its prime minister is having repercussions on the sovereign fund's networks, particularly in France. [...]
FRANCE 30/01/2013 Areva cancels Niger tender Free After four months of consultations (IOL 671, 676, 678 and 679), the French nuclear group Areva has cancelled its €5 [...]
SWITZERLAND 30/01/2013 Private guards under surveillance The Swiss Federal Council approved a bill on "private security services abroad" on January 16 that will require companies registered [...]
FRANCE 02/01/2013 Medvedowsky takes over at ESL Alexandre Medvedowsky, the new president of the strategic and corporate intelligence consultancy ESL, plans to develop the company along three lines. [...]
FRANCE 12/12/2012 EDF nuclear security contract on hold A €350 million contract to secure French energy group EDF’s [...]
FRANCE 14/11/2012 French companies circle Areva contract No fewer than a dozen French private security companies were invited to Areva's headquarters on Paris' rue Lafayette on November [...]
Spotlight NORTH AFRICAFRANCE 03/10/2012 French hostage resolution: too many cooks Since François Hollande's election as French president, the Elysee Palace no longer has someone in overall charge of handing hostage crisis resolution. Benoit Puga used to be in this position when he was Nicolas Sarkozy's private military chief of staff [. [...]
FRANCE 05/09/2012 EDF chiefs clash over nuclear security The sudden suspension of a contract to upgrade security at France’s nuclear power stations has sparked a top-level row at EDF. [...]
SAUDI ARABIA 20/06/2012 Almabani, Prince Salman's builder Prince Salman, who has become Saudi Arabia's crown prince following the death of Nayef bin Abdulaziz, is close to the Saudi-Lebanese construction group Almabani. [...]
EUROPEAN UNION 08/02/2012 CRG opens Brussels office Control Risks Group has opened an office in Brussels in the hope of obtaining European security contracts. [...]
SWITZERLAND 23/11/2011 Special Operations in Geneva Jean-Marc Gadoullet, a former officer of the Paratrooper Specialised Instruction Centre (CPIS) in Perpignan, has founded a new private security company. [...]
LIBYA 26/10/2011 LCP, Libyan mediator for multinationals Libya Claim Process is advising foreign companies that together are owed several billion dollars by Libya. [...]
FRANCE LIBYA 12/10/2011 Libyan business centre mooted On the eve of a visit to Libya by French foreign trade minister Pierre Lellouche on October 12, Intelligence Online [...]
SAUDI ARABIA FRANCE 28/09/2011 Bugshans' Paris pieds-a-terre The Yemeni-origin Bugshan family, long-time partner of several French defence groups in Saudi Arabia, has placed a smidgeon of its [...]
FRANCE LIBYA 14/09/2011 French companies chase debts Before discussing the contracts they would like to obtain from [...]
Spotlight EUROPELIBYA 31/08/2011 Scramble underway for contracts In something of a paradox, on the eve of the "Friends of Libya " summit in Paris on September 1 France and Britain, which led NATO ‘s Operation Odyssey Dawn against Gaddafi's forces, are among the worst placed to win [. [...]