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Sarkozy’s Book Tour Draws Crowds in Menton as Press Access Is Curtailed

The former president promotes a prison memoir under judicial supervision following an appeal in the Libyan financing case.

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.