Valerie Pecresse, the young minister who dared to speak out against the calumny aimed at Ali Soumaré (see previous blog) has been summoned to the Elysée Palace on Tuesday. I don’t expect that Sarko wants to congratulate her.

Meanwhile, during a television interview, Vincent Peillon a Euro MP for the socialist party, produced a newspaper article concerning two very big fish. I quote from Wikipedia.

"Patrick Devedjian, photo, (born on 26 August 1944 in Fontainebleau, Seine-et-Marne) is a French politician of the Union for a Popular Movement(UMP) party. A close adviser of Nicolas Sarkozy since the 1990s, he has been Minister under the Prime Minister in charge of the Implementation of the Recovery Plan, a special ministerial post created for two years..."
Alain Madelin is president of the right wing party, Démocratie libérale.

The article described how these two as students were convicted of:
Stealing a car
Stealing a marine engine
Siphoning petrol
Being in possession of stolen ID papers and an automatic pistol armed with 5 cartridges.
They were given a one year suspended sentence with 3 years probation.
Some might think they got off lightly but even then the extreme right wielded power. The French call it “Piston”. He was a member of a groupe called Occident which aimed at replacing democracy by “the selection of the elite by an elite”. The groupe also earned a reputation for beating up left wing students.
12 July 1967,the court at Rouen sentenced him to a fine of 1000 francs for “violence with premeditation and with the use of arms”. The sentence was considered very leinient . A facist commando had attacked the group of students who formed the committee against the war in Vietnam, with iron bars and pick axe handles leaving one student in a coma and the others in a pools of blood. Even the court described the attack as being of “ a rare savagery, and nameless barbarity” He still had a year’s probation to serve so how he got away with a fine is a mystery to all but the French.
In Patrick Devedjian Sarko has found the ideal advisor.