PARIS - Former French interior minister Charles Pasqua, a hardline politician who was a close ally of former president Jacques Chirac, died Monday aged 88, political sources said.
Former French Interior Minister Charles Pasqua, pictured on May 18, 2015, died suddenly aged 88 on June 29, 2015
Pasqua, a veteran of the Gaullist movement, spent more than half a century at the heart of French politics in a career punctuated by no-nonsense policies targeting terrorism but overshadowed by funding scandals.