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Bruni dice que no es casual que el Vaticano no esté en Francia ni en España

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Roma, 12 feb (EFE).- La primera dama francesa, Carla Bruni asegura que no es casualidad que el Vaticano no esté en Francia ni en España, sino en Italia, un estado que, según ella, no es en absoluto laico.

"No quiero juzgar a Italia, sé cuánto cuenta la religión en el país. El Vaticano es un estado dentro del estado: no está en Francia ni en España. Está en Italia y no es por casualidad", afirma Bruni desde Burkina Faso en unas declaraciones que publica hoy el diario italiano "Corriere della Sera" en su página web.

"No sirve de nada decir que Italia no es laica. Es verdad: no es laica. Pero hay otros caminos que se pueden recorrer para el diálogo, por ejemplo, sobre la prevención de los virus, que no ponen en cuestión las creencias", añade.

Bruni, que es italiana, hizo estas declaraciones al periódico italiano durante la visita a un centro de cuidados para madres y niños infectados con el VIH en Ouagadougou, la capital del país africano, adonde ha viajado como embajadora del Fondo Mundial para la lucha contra el Sida.

La esposa del presidente de Francia, Nicolás Sarzoky, asegura que ha estado pendiente del devenir del caso Eluana Englaro, la joven italiana en coma vegetativo que murió el pasado lunes después de que el Tribunal Supremo de su país autorizara la suspensión de su hidratación y alimentación artificial.

"Su caso me ha llegado. Mi opinión me la reservo, porque hay un debate abierto. De cualquier modo, Eluana ha dejado de sufrir", dice la primera dama francesa.

En las declaraciones que recoge el diario, Bruni aborda además el retraso por parte de Italia en el envío de los fondos que prometió al Fondo Mundial que ella representa para la lucha contra enfermedades como la malaria, el sida o la tuberculosis.

"Siento que Italia lo haya decidido así. Iré al G8 de la Magdalena para pedir que los grandes países den ejemplo. Es necesario ofrecer una contribución a los más débiles, aunque Italia con la crisis tenga problemas importantes", comenta.

Estas palabras tuvieron respuesta por parte del Ministerio de Asuntos Exteriores italiano, que emitió un comunicado de prensa horas después de publicarse las declaraciones en el que asegura que Italia enviará los fondos públicos prometidos antes de que termine 2009.

"Se puede observar que estos fondos pueden ser enviados hasta el final de este año solar y que no está en discusión la salida de Italia del Consejo del Fondo" Mundial para la lucha contra el Sida, del que Bruni es embajadora, reza la nota.

"El ministro (de Exteriores italiano, Franco) Frattini, que se encuentra en estos momentos en África, ha podido confirmar durante sus numerosos encuentros institucionales el gran compromiso de la Presidencia italiana del G8 con África", añade. EFE mcs/ccg/ma

"PROSTITUTA", LLAMA IRÁN A CARLA BRUNI

Iran calls Carla Bruni a 'prostitute’

Carla Bruni-Sarkozy, the French First Lady, has been called a “prostitute” by Iran after she criticised the country’s decision to stone a woman to death.

Published: 10:01PM BST 29 Aug 2010

Carla Bruni-Sarkozy on holiday with her husband Photo: BIG PICTURES

Mrs Bruni-Sarkozy, the wife of Nicolas Sarkozy, the French president, was attacked after she signed a petition calling for the release of Sakineh Mohammadi Ashtiani, who is accused of cheating on her husband and then helping to kill him.

Kayhan, an Iranian newspaper, which is under control of the government, called Mrs Bruni-Sarkozy and Isabelle Adjani, the French actress who is campaigning for Ashtina’s release, “prostitutes” in an editorial, while Iranian state television accused the former supermodel of “immorality”.

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In an open letter to Miss Ashtiani last week, Mrs Bruni-Sarkozy wrote: “Why shed your blood and deprive your children of their mother? Because you have lived, because you have loved, because you’re a woman, and because you’re an Iranian? Everything within me refuses to accept this”.

"IT IS TARTUFFE IN THE AGE OF TWITTER"

April 8, 2010

Rumor of Infidelities Sets Off Modern French Farce

By STEVEN ERLANGER

PARIS — The French, like it or not, have found themselves immersed in another presidential psychodrama, spiced with Internet rumors of infidelity, intelligence and police investigations, complaints about press manipulation and foreign plots and the removal of security protection from a former minister of justice who just happens to have been a favorite of a former wife.

It’s Tartuffe in the age of Twitter.

This French farce began with a rumor on Twitter that may or may not have been cooked up by some journalists indulging in some mischief before regional elections in which President Nicolas Sarkozy and his center-right party did badly.

The postings were picked up in March by a blog on the Web site of the newspaper Le Journal du Dimanche, but not printed in the paper itself. Then numerous foreign newspapers — especially the British and Italian press, which gleefully recycle almost anything published here — printed coy stories based on the blog.

The rumors, which seemed like an especially exaggerated joke at the time, had Carla Bruni-Sarkozy, the president’s wife, engaged in an affair with an old friend of hers, another singer, while Mr. Sarkozy was supposedly involved with a married, karate-champion junior minister. Given the histories of the presidential couple, and Ms. Bruni-Sarkozy’s oft-quoted doubts in her younger days about her capacity for monogamy, the story had legs just long enough to run for a bit, despite denials.

But Mr. Sarkozy, as is his wont, became incandescent. Not only was the blog removed from the Web site of Le Journal du Dimanche, which is owned by a Sarkozy friend, Arnaud Lagardère, but two journalists involved with the Web site were fired. LA HISORIA /DEL PATÁN/ SE REPITE. RECUERDEN CÉCILIA CON SU AMANTE EN LA PORTADA DE PARIS MATCH.

Mr. Sarkozy also apparently smelled a plot, perhaps by the Socialists to undermine him before the elections, perhaps by other forces, including, aides hinted, his political rival, the former prime minister Dominique de Villepin, or the British financial markets worried about the French push for harsher regulation of the City of London.

He ordered an investigation by the French domestic intelligence agency, and then Le Journal du Dimanche filed a criminal complaint, setting off a police inquiry into the “introduction of fraudulent information into a computer system.” The very same issue was at the heart of the Clearstream trial, in which Mr. Sarkozy and others sought the prosecution of Mr. de Villepin for conspiracy to plant false information about fake bank accounts intended to receive arms-sales kickbacks. Mr. de Villepin was accused of planning a smear campaign in 2003-4 intended to undermine Mr. Sarkozy’s presidential ambitions.

The investigation into the rumors of infidelity appeared to point to Rachida Dati, 45, the elegant and intelligent daughter of a Moroccan father and an Algerian mother, as the source. While she was close to Mr. Sarkozy and his second wife, Cécilia, and served as his spokeswoman for his successful 2007 presidential campaign, Mr. Sarkozy fired her, exiling her to a European parliamentary seat in Brussels, where Ms. Dati is said to be extremely bored.

The first inkling Ms. Dati, a former justice minister, had that she might be a source of presidential displeasure was when her police protection, with its government car and driver, suddenly disappeared. She called to keep the car while she finished an appointment that evening, but it was removed thereafter. When the interior minister, a Sarkozy friend named Brice Hortefeux, called her to apologize, she reportedly hung up on him.

The chief of the domestic intelligence service, Bernard Squarcini, denied that Ms. Dati’s phone had been wiretapped and said that his investigations stopped when the police stepped in.

But then Mr. Sarkozy’s friend and communications adviser, Pierre Charon, went public, telling the Web site of the Nouvel Observateur that the Élysée was going to war. “We are going to make this disgrace a casus belli,” he said. “We’re going to do all it takes to make sure it doesn’t happen again.

“As they say, fear has got to change camps,” he said, and spoke of “terror.”

For some reason, journalists at Le Journal du Dimanche and elsewhere interpreted his words as a threat.

But the Dati issue was hardly finished. Claude Guéant, the dark cardinal of the Sarkozy administration and its chief of staff, then told the weekly Le Canard Enchaîné that “the president of the Republic no longer wishes to see Rachida Dati.” The next day, however, on Wednesday, Mr. Guéant, while confirming his earlier statement, then uttered a phrase that might serve as a motto for this entertainment: “Yesterday’s truth is not, perhaps, that of today.”

Jean-François Copé, who leads the governing party’s parliamentary group, said that the deputies were “reacting very badly” to the affair. “They truly don’t need this at the moment,” he told Le Monde. “They are exasperated by this new messy outpouring and are even more sickened by the statements of Pierre Charon.”

Ms. Bruni-Sarkozy was then trotted out on Wednesday night to try to calm the waters in an interview with Europe 1 radio. The rumors of infidelity? “For me and my husband, these rumors are insignificant,” she said. “There is no plot. There is no vengeance. There is nothing. We have turned the page.”

Her husband? “The preoccupations of my husband are the French and France.”

Ms. Dati? “Rachida Dati remains truly our friend.”

La fin?

"IN THE TUBE WITH CARLA BRUNI"

Las imágenes que Bruni no quiere que se vean

El Elíseo intenta retirar de la Red un vídeo con diversos momentos del pasado de la mujer del presidente francés, que explica sus técnicas de conquista: "¿Te gustan mis domingas?"

EL PAÍS - Madrid - 27/05/2010

El palacio del Elíseo está haciendo todo lo posible para retirar un vídeo de Carla Bruni. Su autor es Thomas Cazals que se muestra indignado porque su obra, de 25 minutos de duración, vaya a ser eliminada de la Red , donde fue colgada hace 15 días. Se trata de un film en el que se recogen varios instantes de la vida profesional de la modelo, cantante y ahora primera dama de Francia.

El momento que al parecer ha molestado más a Bruni y a su marido, Nicolas Sarkozy, es uno que data de 1996 cuando en un programa de televisión dos presentadores, uno de ellos el diseñador Jean Paul Gaultier, explica sus técnicas para conquistar en varios idiomas. En el vídeo se le oye a la primera dama decir, por ejemplo, en un castellano con acento sudamericano: "¿Te gustan mis domingas?". Para luego añadir en alemán: "Me pones muy caliente".

In the tube with Carla Bruni se puede ver todavía en Youtube , a pesar de que el entorno de Sarkozy ha intentado retirarlo por irreverente.