Overview
- At a Dec. 12 signing in Menton, Nicolas Sarkozy and his son screened reporters, with Libération and Le Monde denied immediate access, according to on-site accounts.
- The event at the Librairie de la presse drew a large crowd of readers in the afternoon.
- Sarkozy has begun a nationwide tour to present Journal d’un prisonnier, a testimony of roughly twenty days spent at La Santé.
- He remains under judicial supervision in the Libyan affair and is awaiting the procedure for applying a sentence in the Bygmalion case.
- An earlier signing took place in Paris on Dec. 10, and the Menton stop coincided with Louis Sarkozy’s local municipal campaign.