Rachida Dati
Shadi Bartsch
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Posted on 03/31/2010 9:41:42 PM PDT by TigerLikesRooster
Rachida Dati blamed for Sarkozy affairs rumours
Former French cabinet star, Rachida Dati, has had her government security team withdrawn after being blamed for spreading rumours about the state of Nicolas Sarkozy’s marriage.
Henry Samuel in Paris
Published: 11:05PM BST 31 Mar 2010
Nicolas Sarkozy blames Rachida Dati for affairs rumours
The president is said to believe his former justice minister, now an MEP, started talk that his wife was having an affair with Benjamin Biolay, a pop singer, while he was seeing his ecology minister, Chantal Jouanno.
She has now been deprived her of her chauffeur-driven limousine and three bodyguards in mysterious circumstances.
Mr Sarkozy has dismissed the affair allegations as idiotic “rantings” but is said to be privately bent on finding out who was behind them.
It is understood he took “retaliatory action” against Miss Dati, 44, the night his ruling Right-wing UMP party suffered a drubbing in the first round of regional elections on March 14.
The president was sitting at the Elysée Palace watching the fallout from his electoral debacle on the television, when Miss Dati appeared on France 2 — the French BBC1— and appeared to criticise his strategy.
Mr Sarkozy suddenly saw red, not simply because of her mild criticism, but because he suspects the former justice minister of spreading, or even starting, rumours about the state of his marriage.
He is understood to have instantly picked up the phone and ordered Frédéric Péchenard, France’s national police chief, to cut off Miss Dati’s limousine graciously provided by the interior ministry, her driver and police bodyguards “within the hour”.
Miss Dati learned of the order while still in the television studio. One of the guards is said to have told her: “Sorry Madame, we’ve got to go home — orders from on high.”
(Excerpt) Read more at telegraph.co.uk ...
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Dati can now be the Minister of Foreign Affairs in France.
Rachida Dati
Shadi Bartsch
Cheers!
“...There was scarcely concealed glee in some parts of her own centre-right camp when two of her brothers were tried for drug dealing. In the early months of her tenure, both President Sarkozy and anti-racist groups dismissed the criticism as exaggerated: the inevitable price of his attempt to open up the French political system to people of African and Arab background for the first time...”
Something didn't quite work out for her?
Typical petty Sarkozy tactics, hump em and dump em.
The man really is a little napoleon, he’ll ruin France when he knows he’s about to be dumped in 2012, oh wait, hes already doing that.
this is what French do...Mitterand and Chirac both did
but cheating on Carla Bruni...not me...and she’s rich too
Interesting. Thanks for the ping; post; information.
In France, members of the government get lots of free perks. The most desirable real estate, appartements de fonctionaire, located in the most expensive neighborhoods, are given to people like Dati, along with free cars, free securoty, not to mention free meals at the best restaurants.
The First Estate there, now coming here.
The first estate were the Roman Catholic clergymen, the second estate was composed of the nobility, and the third estate was composed of the bourgeoisie and the peasants. Hence the name for newspapermen in the last century, “the fouth estate.”.
Mmmmmm. Me love Beurettes.
How very French Cincinna, Sarkozy has female problems of his own making and from a fmr protege’.
AS for France as a whole, it appears they rode out the problems relatively unscathed, but Sarko is weakened by the regional electoral losses.
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