 jean-christophe mitterrand (born december 19, 1946) is the son of former french president franÃ§ois mitterrand. he was an advisor to his father on african affairs from 1986 to 1992, jean-christophe mitterrand joue les victimes, rfi, 16 september 2004  and earned the nickname papamadit (which translates as "papa-told-me") in africa. == life and career == mitterrand was born in boulogne-billancourt, hauts-de-seine. he was a press correspondent for the agence france presse in 1975 in mauritania. === angolagate ===  in the 1990s, jean-christophe mitterrand, along with russian businessman arcadi gaydamak, were implicated in the angolagate arms dealing scandal. he was indicted in 1993 by the french justice in this case, suspected of having used his influence to help pierre falcone sell russian weapons to josÃ© eduardo dos santos's government. on december 22, 2000, he was imprisoned in the santÃ© prison in paris, on orders of the magistrate philippe courroye, on charges of "complicity of arms traffic, trafic d'influence and trafic d'influence aggravÃ©." he was suspected of having received important sums of money in 1993 and 1994 for his role as an intermediary in this contract, and has recognized having received us$ 1,8 million (13 million francs) from the brenco on a swiss bank account &mdash; although he denied any participation to an arms deal. jean-christophe mitterrand was freed three weeks later, on january 11, 2001, after his mother, danielle mitterrand, managed to pay a caution of 5 million francs (762,000 euros). jean-christophe mitterrand libÃ©rÃ©, l'express, 15 january 2001  however, he was indicted again on july 4, 2001, on charges of "complicity of arms traffic" by the magistrates philippe courroye and isabelle prÃ©vost-desprez, following a complaint filed in january 2001 by the socialist minister of defence alain richard. chronology of the angolagate, l'express, 16 october 2002  jean-christophe mitterrand was again indicted on october 17, 2001, for corruption by investigative judge courroye, suspected of having received us$ 300,000 from the brenco in payment of councils to falcone. on the eve of this new indictment, jean-christophe mitterrand filed a complaint against judge courroye accusing him of having made a "false" document in july 2000 (because courroye had put the date of 3 july for an ordinance draft
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