Paris police raid Arab World Institute in connection with Epstein investigation

French constabulary raided the office for the Arab World Institute connected Monday arsenic portion of its probe into a erstwhile authorities official's connections to Jeffrey Epstein.

Authorities searched the Paris office on with respective different locations, according to the National Financial Prosecutor. The investigators were searching for documents relating to ex-culture curate Jack Lang, who antecedently served arsenic the AWI's caput until his resignation past month. AWI is simply a portion of France's overseas ministry.

Both Jack and Caroline Lang person repeatedly denied immoderate wrongdoing oregon receiving fiscal benefits from Epstein. Their lawyer, Laurent Merlet, told French broadcaster BFMTV this period that "there was nary question of funds".

Fallout from the merchandise of millions of caller documents related to Epstein has rippled done Europe. On Saturday, Paris prosecutors acceptable up a dedicated squad to reappraisal the files, coordinating with the fiscal authoritative and nationalist police.

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French constabulary officers patrol successful beforehand of the Institut du Monde Arabe (IMA - Arab World Institute) during a hunt arsenic portion of investigations entrusted to the National Anti-Fraud Office (ONAF) connected the Epstein lawsuit linked to its president Jack Lang, astatine the Institut du Monde Arabe successful Paris connected February 16, 2026. (Photo by Charlotte SIEMON / AFP via Getty Images)

Attorney General Pam Bondi announced successful a missive connected Saturday that "all" Epstein files person present been released, accordant with Section 3 of the Epstein Files Transparency Act.

"In accordance with the requirements of the Act, and arsenic described successful assorted Department submissions to the courts of the Southern District of New York assigned to the Epstein and Maxwell prosecutions and related orders, the Department released each ‘records, documents, communications and investigative materials successful the possession of the Department’ that ‘relate to’ immoderate of 9 antithetic categories," the missive read.

The missive includes a database of much than 300 high-profile names, including President Donald Trump, Barack and Michelle Obama, Prince Harry, Bill Gates, Woody Allen, Kurt Cobain, Mark Zuckerberg and Bruce Springsteen.

Attorney General Pam Bondi arrives astatine the Rayburn House Office Building connected Capitol Hill and takes questions from Fox News main legislature analogous Chad Pergram up of a House hearing. (Tom Williams)

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In accordance with the Epstein Files Transparency Act, the database of names includes "all persons wherever (1) they are oregon were a authorities authoritative oregon politically exposed idiosyncratic and (2) their sanction appears successful the files released nether the Act astatine slightest once," the missive said, adding that the names look successful a "wide assortment of contexts."

Some of the names mentioned had "extensive nonstop email interaction with Epstein oregon Maxwell" portion others were mentioned "in a information of a papers (including property reporting) that connected its look is unrelated to the Epstein and Maxwell matters," the missive said.

The Department of Justice released a trove of Epstein documents connected Dec. 19 pursuing President Trump's signature connected the Epstein Files Transparency Act successful November 2025.  (Joe Schildhorn/Patrick McMullan via Getty Images)

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The papers outlines the wide scope of Epstein-related materials the Justice Department says are encompassed, including records concerning Jeffrey Epstein and Ghislaine Maxwell; references to individuals—up to and including authorities officials—connected to Epstein’s activities; and documents tied to civilian settlements and ineligible resolutions specified arsenic immunity deals, plea agreements, non-prosecution agreements and sealed arrangements. 

Reuters contributed to this report.