"Monkey" and "negro": Nicolas Sarkozy creates controversy in Quotidien

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Thursday, September 10, Nicolas Sarkozy created controversy by saying that we could no longer say certain words without being accused of being insulting.

The former President of the Republic castigated the elites "

" and who are "

".

While pronouncing these words, Nicolas Sarkozy put his hands on his eyes, thus referring to the well-known figure of the three wise monkeys (the deaf, the mute and the blind).

The words that followed are the ones that made people react, mainly on social networks.

"

”.

Then, addressing Yann Barthès: “

”.

Nicolas Sarkozy then referred to the change of title of Agatha Christie's novel,

, renamed

- and not "

".

For part of the left, the former head of state made a link between the words "

" and "

".

"

", for example, reacted the first secretary of the Socialist Party, Olivier Faure.

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declared the now elected of Paris, Audrey Pulvar.

Valérie Trierweiler, she considered that the words of Nicolas Sarkozy were

(in 2005, Minister of the Interior, he said he wanted to clean the city of 4000 in Kärcher, Editor's note)

The former president, however, received the support of his former Minister of Justice, Rachida Dati.

Invited by BFMTV this Friday, the mayor of the 7th arrondissement of Paris considered that Nicolas Sarkozy was "a victim of well-thought".