According to the site “Les Inrocks”, Gérard Longuet, former president of the UMP group in the Senate and current French Minister of Defense, came to Tunisia in 2006 in the cool of the Princess, or rather Ben Ali, according to an official … Tunisian document!
The two authors of the article, namely Nicolas Beau and Arnaud Muller, who are not unknown since they wrote “Tunis and Paris: dangerous links”, also for Nicolas Beau “La Régente de Carthage”, emphasized the fact that Gérard Longuet had stolen from the help of Michèle Alliot-Marie following the case of the free plane of a businessman. And for good reason! Longet is not white as snow since he too has benefited from certain generosity during personal trips to Tunisia.
It was based on documents from the archives of… the Tunisian External Communication Agency (ATCE), that the two journalists were able to follow the Tunisian getaway from Gérard Longet. Besides, they write: “Gérard Longuet arrived on the Tunisian coast aboard a beautiful sailboat 17 meters long, the Silver Shadow. (…) (He) was accompanied for this cruise by Jean-Marc Sylvestre, columnist renowned at the time of LCI and TF1, with which he frequently leaves by boat. Their children accompanied them.
These vacationers had the chance to moor their sailboat in the pretty port of Sidi Bou Saïd and stay two days in the superb five -star palace in Gammarth, The Residence. According to the same source (the ATCE document), the program to receive these brand hosts included an evening at the Carthage Festival and a dinner with the Minister of Foreign Affairs of Ben Ali, Abdelwaheb Abdallah. (…) ”.
But that’s not all since the document also reports on the point of honor of the Ben Ali government “to finance the stay of the French”. Besides, beautiful and Muller put to the index the fact that “Osama Romdhani, director general of ATCE, asks the managers of the National Office for Tunisian Tourism to:” kindly consider the possibility of taking charge of the costs of the stay at the hotel The Residence in Gammarth of Mr. and Mrs. Longuet (Madame, in fine, will not participate in the trip). ATCE will take charge, on the other hand, the stay of Mr. Sylvestre. (…) In another document, this one in Arabic, the director of ATCE asks the direction of the marina of Sidi Bou Saïd to reserve a place for the sailboat of Gérard Longuet and Jean-Marc Sylvestre, “a friend of our country”, specifies the note “.
All the documents that were used by the two authors to write their articles will be available on the magazine “Les Inrockuptibles” on Wednesday.
