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In an interview with the right-wing daily, the former head of state threads meaningless or dismaying pearls on current issues.
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Reactive clichés, conservative truisms, real pieces of has-been “common sense”: this is the gist of the interview with the grumpy old uncle of the right, Nicolas Sarkozy, At Figaro from May 30. An interview without questions on the heavy legal news of the former president, but with a magnificent necklace of narcissistic and sour pearls, on absolutely all subjects. On security, the man who eliminated 10,000 police positions and put an end to community policing speaks of the left like the right of the 90s: “François Hollande and the left have dismantled the security arsenal. This is an authentic state scandal.”
On the war between Russia and Ukraine, we find all the commonplaces of those who always give in to the powerful.