Sarkozy ‘in six places at once’ claims Tabloid

24Jun08

         

 

     PARIS: French President Nicholas Sarkozy is known for his energetic style of leadership and diplomacy, having travelled enough to earn himself enough high flyer points to last a lifetime, but a bizarre claim being made, and stood by, from a British tabloid has put the French leader’s legal team in a tailspin. The tabloid British Peak claims that on the day of May 4th 2008 Sarkozy was in six different countries. At the same time. According to the report, the French leader was at a lunch fundraiser in the Candian city of Yukon which finished at 2:35pm, at which time Sarkozy flew to Vancouver to meet with Parliamentary dignitaries. It was then reported he finished the day by flying back to Paris where he unveiled new tax leglislation. But further media reports circulating from Sarkozy’s activity on this same day indicate that he was also in five other countries attending to multiple responsibilities.

     As reported in The Age,  Sarkozy was meeting with Chinese foreign minister Yang Jiechi in Beijing at 2:20pm on the date of of May 4th, 2008. Sources for the French President estimated that the meeting lasted between three to four hours. To complicate matters, there was also live video feed shown on French television of Sarkozy meeting with the Brazilian minister for Energy in Rio de Janeiro at 5:30pm on the same day (the same time he was supposedly en route back to Paris at 20,000 feet).

     It is also believed that in addition to being in Canada, China and Brazil at the same time, Sarkozy was photographed jogging with his bodyguards in Barcelona, holding a speech at the Indonesian stock exchange and speaking with aides of US Presidential hopeful Barack Obama in Chicago, all at the same time.

     When asked for an explaination, his advisor Jean-David Levitte simply replied, “As you can appreciate, Mr. Sarkozy is a very busy man.”

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