the dissident frogman · time to take sides

The BBC email alert relating this bit of news came formatted as follow:

France's ex-President Jacques Chirac is placed under formal investigation over funding scandal when he was Paris mayor, his lawyer says.

Everybody let's scoff: scandal?

That's no funding scandal Mr. BBC, that's a good old-fashioned fraud.

The scandal is that Chirac's multiple scams were not put under any serious investigation sooner⁽¹⁾, even though nobody across the whole political spectrum, in the press and on the streets ignored that Chirac was a top dog in that fetid pool of corruption that is the French political class⁽²⁾.

But then, what can you expect when the judiciary is appointed by and under the orders of the politics?