It's been quite a news day, what with Iran test firing missiles that could theoretically reach Israel or the eastern reaches of NATO -- either scenario, and definitely the latter, could drag Canada into war if there was a real attack; a US consulate bombing in Istanbul killing six; and the parents of JonBenét Ramsey finally being cleared in her murder but with no definitive conclusion as the killer's DNA is not in any database.
But it's this one story in France that I find rather intriguing.
Last night, Ségolène Royal, France's leading Socialist, suggested that a break-in at her apartment on June 27th may have been an inside job done on the orders of the current French President and the man who defeated her in the elections last year, Nicolas Sarkozy. She wondered out loud on France 2, the country's primary state-run channel, if it was just a coincidence that the ransacking occured just a day after she criticized the grip of the "Sarkozy clan" on the country.
François Fillion, the French PM, accused her of slander. Even some Socialists are wondering if she went too far, saying getting broken into is just part of the job of being a politician.
But isn't this something that should be investigated, no matter who's behind it? After all, that little thing called Watergate started with burglary in the third degree. We think politics in Canada and the US can get nuts. It's small potatoes compared to what goes on in the EU states, most of whom allow bribes to corrupt officials in Third World countries to be deducted as a business expense -- which says something about the state of affairs in the homelands. (Canada officially bans the practice but you know the accountants and tax lawyers always find a way around this.)
Personally I do find it suspicious that it was her flat and not that one of her minions that was the target. It should raise a red flag (pardon the pun).
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