Jack Lang causes a scene at the MK2 Bastille cinema. He reportedly couldn't stand having to queue like everyone else.

Jack Lang finds himself at the center of a new controversy according to revelations from Chained duckThe former Minister of Culture reportedly caused a scene at the MK2 Bastille cinema in Paris last Sunday after refusing to wait in line like other moviegoers.

Jack Lang reportedly raised his voice, invoking his past actions in support of culture and cinema, with a formula summarized around "Everything I've done for culture, for cinema".

Jack Lang, an increasingly tarnished image

This new scandal comes at a particularly sensitive time for Jack Lang. Since February, the former minister has been at the center of a controversy linked to the French fallout from the Jeffrey Epstein affair. At the same time, the National Financial Prosecutor's Office opened a preliminary investigation on February 6th into... "aggravated tax fraud money laundering" targeting Jack Lang and Caroline Lang, following the publication of the "Epstein files" and journalistic revelations in France.

Under pressure from this affair, Jack Lang resigned from the Arab World Institute, a decision publicly confirmed by the institution. A few days later, searches were carried out at the Arab World Institute… This hasn't exactly made Jack Lang shy, and despite all the controversy surrounding him, he continues to give his detractors plenty of ammunition…