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Former French president Jacques Chirac insisted Monday that he was in good health as his wife denied reports that he has Alzheimer's disease, adding that he would attend his corruption trial next month. A judge, meanwhile, rebuffed a bid by Chirac's lawyer to defer the unprecedented trial. The weekly Journal du Dimanche had quoted unnamed friends of Chirac, 78, as saying he had memory lapses and that his wife, Bernadette, feared he had Alzheimer's. Chirac suffered a minor stroke in 2005. "The doctors said he didn't have Alzheimer's, and I believe them," Bernadette told Europe 1 radio. "Do I look like I am unwell?" Chirac asked a reporter from French television channel BFMTV when approached outside his home Monday. "I am very well, thank you." He did not comment on the trial, but his wife told the radio station, "He has always said he wanted to be treated as a person, liable to trial like any other. He said he would go to his trial, and he will." Chirac's lawyers moved for deferral on procedural grounds, but a judge rejected their request and said the trial - the first ever against a French ex-president - would proceed March 7. AFP |
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