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The Independent : "Cherchez la femme : the mystery of Mme Sarkozy"
Hughes Lacoste
mardi 1er mai 2007
Voir en ligne : The Independent

By John Lichfield in Paris Published : 25 April 2007

Les médias français regorgent d'informations sur les élections, mais
restent pratiquement muets sur le sujet qui obsède le plus le village
politico-médiatique parisien. A onze jours du second tour de l'élection,
un silence pesant imposé par la loi entoure l'état des relations entre
le favori, Nicolas Sarkozy, et sa femme, Cécilia. Mme Sarkozy, 49 ans,
s'est brièvement séparée de son mari il y a deux ans pour revenir
ensuite en fanfare. Au premier tour de l'élection, dimanche dernier, elle a
voté avec M. Sarkozy - et sans doute aussi pour lui.
Or c'était la première fois depuis deux semaines qu'on la voyait en
public. Et depuis elle a à nouveau disparu. Lorsque le couple a voté,
dimanche, à Neuilly-sur-Seine, une banlieue aisée de Paris, les relations
semblaient pour le moins tendues. Depuis une dizaine de jours, des
rumeurs d'une nouvelle séparation donnent lieu à des spéculations scabreuses
- y compris en chansons - sur Internet. Des articles publiés dans la
presse britannique et dans d'autres journaux étrangers laissent entendre
que Mme Sarkozy a quitté une nouvelle fois son mari pour un autre
homme, et ce au milieu de la campagne la plus importante de la vie de son
époux. Un membre de l'UMP a même confié à The Independent qu'il était
désormais "de notoriété publique" qu'il y avait eu une nouvelle séparation
au sein de ce qui apparaissait autrefois comme un couple idéal. Mais il
a ajouté que, cette fois encore, la séparation serait peut-être
temporaire.
Dans presque tous les pays démocratiques, une séparation entre le
favori de l'élection présidentielle et sa femme, en pleine campagne, serait
une nouvelle explosive qui ferait la une des médias. Mais pas en
France. La loi française interdit aux médias de toucher à la vie privée, y
compris à celle des personnages publics. Cette disposition s'applique
également aux publications étrangères, telles que The Independent, qui
sont diffusées en France. Bien que cette loi parte d'une bonne intention,
elle peut avoir des effets pervers. M. Sarkozy, un personnage réputé
fragile et hyperactif, est au coeur du second tour : il est nettement
favori face à la candidate socialiste, Ségolène Royal, le 6 mai.
Si sa femme l'a quitté à un moment aussi critique, les gens ne sont-ils
pas en droit de le savoir ? Pendant quatorze ans, les médias français
n'ont pas pu dévoiler le fait que le président François Mitterrand avait
une autre famille et une fille illégitime, Mazarine. Daniel
Schneidermann, éditorialiste du journal Libération, s'est d'ailleurs plaint que la
"pravdaïsation" de la presse française s'était encore accentuée.
Passant sous silence les rumeurs selon lesquelles Cécilia avait disparu,
Paris Match - l'hebdomadaire d'un groupe appartenant à un ami de M. Sarkozy
- a publié une double page de photos titrée : "Revoilà Cécilia". En
robe fuschia, Mme Sarkozy assistait à un gala de charité donné à Paris. On
n'apercevait aucune trace de son mari. D'après l'éditeur et chroniqueur
Guy Birenbaum, qui a publié des livres sur la relation de connivence
qui unit la politique et les médias en France, "le couple Sarkozy est à
l'évidence une question légitime pour les médias français. S'ils
l'ignorent, ce n'est pas à cause de la loi, mais par peur et par déférence
vis-à-vis du pouvoir".
John Lichfield


The Independent : " L'affaire présidentielle, Cécilia Sarkozy and
François Hollande are unlikely to follow their presidential partners into
the Elysée Palace"
Hughes Lacoste
mercredi 2 mai 2007
By John Lichfield in Paris Published : 29 April 2007
The loneliness of power could take on new meaning in the Elysée Palace.
Whichever candidate wins the French presidential election a week today,
the next President will almost certainly move into his, or her,
official residence alone. The 44,500,000 French voters will be given a choice
between two odd couples. Not all of the French electorate is fully
aware of the fact.
The troubled but once seemingly perfect marriage between the
centre-right candidate Nicolas Sarkozy, 52, and his wife Cécilia collapsed in
mid-campaign. Mrs Sarkozy, 49, is believed to have spent part of the past
few weeks in Florida.
This has been widely reported in the foreign press and on the internet,
but has barely been mentioned in the French mainstream press, and not
at all on television. The only reference on radio has been in the daily
foreign press review on France Inter - the French equivalent of Radio 4
- which last Wednesday gave listeners translated extracts from an
article on the Sarkozy marriage published that day in The Independent. The
article asked why there had been an official news "blackout" on Cécilia
Sarkozy's virtual disappearance : France Inter made no further comment.
France has strict and well-intentioned laws that forbid the media to
invade private lives. The president's wife, or première dame, is almost
as much a part of the French political landscape as the First Lady in
the US. Can the front-running presidential candidate's marriage therefore
be regarded as a "private" matter ? Sources in Mr Sarkozy's party, the
Union pour un Mouvement Populaire (UMP), say that there has indeed been
another serious rift in his marriage : after brief appearances last
Sunday at a polling station and at UMP headquarters, Cécilia has
disappeared from view once again.
French websites are full of lurid speculation about the causes of the
latest Nicolas-Cécilia bust-up, the third in two years. The Paris
political-media village is talking of little else, and some are asking
whether the rest of the public - especially the provincial public - does not
have a right to know as well.
By contrast, the unconventional private life of the other remaining
presidential candidate, Ségolène Royal, is well known to all. The
53-year-old Socialist candidate's "marriage", and the exact nature of her
relations with her partner, have been the subject of constant media
speculation during the campaign.
Ms Royal and her partner of 25 years, François Hollande, have four
children. They have never married. But he is also the first secretary, or
head, of the Parti Socialiste. On the pattern of previous elections, he,
not Ms Royal, should have been the Socialist presidential candidate.
The meteoric success of Ms Royal in the primary campaign last year was
a personal calamity for Mr Hollande, 54. Trapped between his partner,
several other candidates and his own ambitions, he behaved, in the
circumstances, with extraordinary dignity. He was, however, caught on a live
microphone on one occasion saying : "I am living through a nightmare."
Mr Hollande has let it be known that he will not move into the Elysée
Palace as "First Gentleman" if she wins. So are Ségolène and François
still truly a couple ? Rumours have circulated for years suggesting that
their "marriage" is a sham.
In a book of interviews published last month, Ms Royal joked about the
constant speculation surrounding her relationship, saying : "At least,
since I am a woman, they can't say I have a hidden child somewhere." On
the big question - are they still an item - she said : "Yes, we are
together and yes, we still live together. If that was not the case, I
assure you - given the paparazzi who follow us all the time - you would
know about it."
According to Socialist Party officials, her reference to paparazzi was
no joke. She and Mr Hollande, they say, have been targeted
unsuccessfully for months by the "celebrity scandal" press in France. That raises
the obvious question : why has this section of the French press ignored
the Nicolas-Cécilia story ?
One reason might be that Mr Sarkozy has many connections in the French
media industry. The last editor of Paris-Match was fired for running a
picture spread showing Cécilia with the man with whom she fled to the
US in 2005. The magazine happens to be run by a group owned by a close
friend of Mr Sarkozy.
When she left her husband in 2005, Cécilia Sarkozy gave a series of
interviews to a journalist, Valérie Domain, who wrote a book giving the
reasons for her flight. Mr Sarkozy intervened to have the book pulped.
Ms Domain changed the names and turned her book into a novel, Entre le
Coeur et la Raison ("Between Heart and Reason"). The Cécilia Sarkozy
character - "Célia" - is presented as an impulsive romantic who cannot
stand living with a man who ignores her. At one point she says : "I have
the impression that you have become like all of these other
politicians, cold and distant, even with your wife. You are a fake, and I can
stand it no longer."


Claims Sarkozy beats his wife France's strong presidential candidate
Sarkozy is claimed to have beaten his wife Cecilia. The news appeared in
a column of Liberation and on the website of a leftist journalist.
After she was beaten, she left him again
Two journalists, one from Liberation newspaper, have written that there
are rumors on the internet claiming Sarkozy beating his wife Cecilia
who is claimed to have had a love affair. The French press, who is
discreet about the private lives of politicians due to the laws, has been
shaken up by the shocking claims that have been spread like rumors: "the
former minister of the interior and the strongest candidate for the
presidency Nicholas Sarkozy beats his wife." The claim was put forth
first in the beginning of April and the Marianne magazine was told to write
about these claims in an article under the title "The Real Sarkozy."
However, according to media society, "this detail was left out due to
pressure." A new claim has appeared on the website of the Liberation
columnist, Daniel Schneidermann, who wrote: " there were rumors of Sarkozy
beating his wife on the web and Mrs. Sarkozy had left her home" due to
her affair.