For 17 hours, so Le Monde says. Astonishing. I know the French police have a somewhat tougher approach than their counterparts this side of the channel, but nothing illustrates it better than the difference between their treatment of their Prime Minister, and our police’s treatment of ours.

Funny that both heads of government should be helping the police within a week of each other. De Villepin was being quizzed about his role in http://www.gooakley.com/ the “Clearstream” scandal, a classic French affaire in which concern about apparent revelations about corruption turned into concern about false accusations, when it turned out the initial whistle-blowing was false. De Villepin is thought by some to have tried to use the initial scandal to discredit Nicolas Sarkozy, his rival for the right’s presidential nomination.

Like Tony Blair, he was interviewed as a witness, not a suspect.

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