French Foreign Minister Michele Alliot-Marie has defended a property deal between her parents and an associate of the ousted Tunisian president.
"Their private life is their own affair," she said, after news weekly Le Canard Enchaine broke the story.
Earlier Ms Alliot-Marie was criticised for having flown twice on a jet owned by Aziz Miled, who was close to ex-president Zine al-Abidine Ben Ali.
She was on holiday in Tunisia during anti-government protests in December. More...
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