Nicolas Sarkozy, French president, spoke today for the first time of the revolt in Tunisia. And the reserve has apologized, silence and support that his Government gave the dictatorial regime of Ben Ali until his last moment. The head of state of France - Tunisia's leading economic partner and former colonial power, said that just this past colonial ties its hands in a sense: "The colonial power is always illegitimate to pronounce an opinion on the affairs of the former colony.So I vindicate some reservations about this. I do not want France's position can be treated with a country that retains some colonial reflexes. " However, French President acknowledged having underestimated the degree of discontent of the Tunisian people, "Behind the emancipation of women, the effort in education and training, economic dynamism, beating a despair, suffering and a feeling of suffocation , admittedly, we were not able to see in perspective.
" The position of France, widely criticized by the opposition and many Tunisian dissident, was marked especially when Foreign Affairs Minister, Michèle Alliot-Marie, three days before Ben Ali was ousted deque, proposed in Parliament, to send police to Tunisia in order to show the Tunisian agents "do good" when controlling demonstrations.
Sarkozy, in a massive, rare and solemn news conference at the Elysee (more than 300 journalists and the entire diplomatic corps) today backed his minister, who was present in the room: "She just wanted to avoid dramas, not stand against the protesters. " Then he remembered, to counter criticisms that have been made by his excessive closeness to the regime of Ben Ali, "all opposition Tunisian living in France." The French president also spoke of the two French restructuring Mali died last Jan.
7 when French special forces tried to free them, after being abducted at a restaurant in Niamey (Niger). "They did not die. They were cowardly murdered. The French helicopter was not the first to shoot. The decision I made was trying to free them he had to make." With reference to the head of Al Qaeda, Bin Laden, who threatened last Friday directly to France in an audio message, he said, dryly: "I do not comment on what he says that man anywhere near or far."
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