Spanish Prime Minister, Jose Maria Aznar, accused ETA of terrorist blackmail, while French Foreign Minister, Hubert Vedrine, said the move was ''deplorable''.
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Mr Vedrine, who at the time was a senior advisor to President Mitterrand, also says he only knew of the payments afterward.
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Dumas said that former Elf president Loik Le Floch-Prigent's version that he had discussed the Leuna affair with the president and that Mr Vedrine and Ms Guigou knew about it, "was certainly true".