Scandal-hit French mayor Jacques Bouille kills himself...

A mayor accused of engineering a multimillion-euro art scam in his town killed himself in his prison cell early this morning, French police said.

Jacques Bouille, who had been in provisional detention since December on charges including corruption and money laundering, was found by guards at a jail in Perpignan, south-west France. Police said he had hanged himself.

Bouille, who had been mayor of the small town of Saint-Cyprien since 1989, was expelled from Nicolas Sarkozy's centre-right UMP party when his time in office became embroiled in controversy. More...

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