I was interested to see this article on the BBC website. The story also appeared in the Financial Times.
Not content with expelling Roma from France, it seems as if President Sarkozy is also spying on journalists from Le Monde, one of France’s most respected newspapers. The newspaper’s alleged crime? Daring to cover the Bettencourt story, a saga of truly Byzantine proportions. Beginning as a family feud between France’s richest women, l’Oreal heiress Liliane Bettencourt, and her daughter, the Bettencourt affair has since mushroomed into a major political scandal involving, amongst others, France’s Labour Minister Eric Woerth. But M Woerth is not the only politician implicated in this complicated and sordid tale. M Sarkozy has also been mentioned in despatches.
Could this be why the ever resourceful and none too particular Sarkozy took extreme action against the Roma? The Roma issue has, after all, provided a diversion away from M Sarkozy’s alleged financial irregularities.
