Bernard Bajolet Explained

Bernard Bajolet
Office:Director of the Directorate-General for External Security
Term Start:10 April 2013
Term End:20 May 2017
President:François Hollande
Birth Date:21 May 1949
Birth Place:Dombasle-sur-Meurthe, France
Nationality:French
Alma Mater:Sciences Po, ÉNA
Profession:Diplomat

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.

Early life

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.https://www.lemediatv.fr/emissions/2023/magot-de-la-dgse-kadhafi-francafrique-la-face-cachee-de-lespionnage-francais-iLQqbfujQMyK_b8WFuFFIg.

Diplomatic career

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Notes and References

  1. Web site: Biographie de M. Bernard Bajolet . The French Embassy in Algeria . 2008-12-25 . https://web.archive.org/web/20080701224830/http://www.ambafrance-dz.org/article.php3?id_article=1022 . 2008-07-01 . dead .