All these squatted habitations, all these buildings must be
closed in order to prevent those tragic events, and this is
what I asked the Prefect of Police because these people are
poor human beings who are housed in unacceptable conditions.
After accepting people to whom, sadly, we cannot propose work
or housing, we end up in a situation that results in tragedies
like these.
Nicolas Sarkozy
France Inter, 30 August 2005, after several
cases where poor black immigrant families from Africa had died
when the derelict buildings in which they lived burnt down.
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We live in a world where people don't all have the same scruples,
where all blows can be given, and where, in order to down somebody,
all means can be used. Nothing will lead me astray from the
path that I have chosen.
Nicolas Sarkozy
Le Monde, 2005. |
We shall clean the Cité des 4000 [in La Courneuve]
with a Kärcher.
Nicolas Sarkozy
June 2005: following this declaration,
Sarkozy was reprimanded during the Council of Ministers by President
Chirac and Prime Minister Dominique de Villepin. |
The judge who freed Mrs. Cremel's murderer will pay for his
mistake.
Nicolas Sarkozy
June 2005: following this declaration,
Sarkozy was reprimanded during the Council of Ministers by President
Chirac and Prime Minister Dominique de Villepin. |
How can one be fascinated by those fights of obese guys with
brylcreemed buns? Sumo is not an intellectual's sport!
Nicolas Sarkozy
Hong Kong, 9 January 2004; Jacques Chirac
had a taste for watching sumo. |
The Chiraquian EEG is flat. This is no longer [Paris] City
Hall, this is the antechamber of the morgue. Chirac is dead,
only the 3 last shovelfuls are needed.
Nicolas Sarkozy
Before the 1995 presidential elections.
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To be a young Gaullist is to be a revolutionary!
Nicolas Sarkozy
National meeting of UDR in Nice, June 1975.
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