No one can quite figure out what exactly President Sarkozy sees in the Bulgarian nurses case and why he has made it his mission to get them freed. We now have news that wife Cecilia flew to meet with the nurses yesterday, with Elysee chief of staff Claude Gueant in tow. The first lady of France reportedly met with Qadaffi to plead the case too.
There just has to be something to this story we are not seeing. It's not necessarily nefarious, but of all the bugs that get into President Sarkozy's ear, why this one now?
My only answer thus far is that its a gimme, as the golfers say. If he pulls it off (and word is that he expects to) than a whole swathe of clash of civilization Europeans will be grateful. He'll become an instant hero to right wing Europe, especially in the Eastern part of the continent. The answer, then, as to why he's so focused on the nurses may very well be, why not?
UPDATE: According to l'Express, feathers in Brussells are officially ruffled. Also, Cecilia's other priority seems to be Rachida Dati, the new Minister of Justice who is both a woman and of Arabic origin as the French say. According to Le Monde, Cecilia had this to say about the minister, whose brother is about to be sentenced for drug dealing in Eastern France:
She's more than a friend. She's a sister. I'll never let her go. She's the child of gods.
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