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Sunday, February 19, 2006
La France A French writer complains that interior minister Nicholas Sarkozy has pulped her book - a thinly veiled work of fiction - because it discloses embarrassing details of his marital life: “Never mind what is in the book, what about the fact that a minister of state succeeded in banning a book. The same minister who, a few weeks later, when asked about the row over the Prophet Mohammed cartoons, said he preferred that people's feeling[s] were hurt to imposing censorship. He said this in front of a group of journalists and not one of them said, 'Hang on a minute, what about [my] book?'" |