PARIS: Former French prime minister Dominique de Villepin was questioned by a judge about a Karachi bombing in 2002 that killed 11 French submarine engineers, sources close to the inquiry said.
Anti-terrorist magistrate Marc Trevidic, who is leading an inquiry into the attack that has sparked allegations of political corruption and revenge-taking in France, questioned Vilelpin for 2 hours.
Villepin was also questioned for 4 hours last Thursday for a separate probe into whether French officials received illegal payments related to arms deals in 1995.
Witnesses have alleged the Pakistan bombing was revenge for the cancelling of kickbacks paid to officials in the arms deals, in a complex case linked to alleged illegal political funding and implicating President Nicolas Sarkozy.
