French president Nicolas Sarkozy told TV viewers his youngest son was out of line when he and his friends pelted a policewoman with ‘vegetables’, but said there was always the risk that children would be children when left unattended.
In recent days, French media have reported that 15-year-old Louis Sarkozy and friends at the presidential palace threw tomatoes and wadded paper balls at the on-duty officer on March 8.
In an offbeat TV interview yesterday, Mr Sarkozy sought to set the record straight. He told Canal Plus: “He was wrong, but it wasn’t little balls ... it was vegetables. “It’s not nice. I told him what I thought. I saw the policewoman.”
Mr Sarkozy said raising children was “the hardest thing in the world” and leaving a child alone with two friends was risky.
He has three sons and a daughter from three marriages.
Assange bid for Australian Senate
WikiLeaks says the group’s founder, Julian Assange, will run for a seat in the Australian Senate in elections due late next year despite facing criminal charges in Sweden.
The 40-year-old Australian is currently being held under virtual house arrest in Britain while he fights extradition to Sweden, where he’s wanted over sex crime allegations.
Assange has taken his legal battle to the Supreme Court, which is expected to rule imminently.
The WikiLeaks website tweeted today that the organisation has “discovered that it is possible for ... Assange to run for the Australian Senate while detained”, adding that he “has decided to run”.
Australian National University political scientist John Wanna says Assange can run if he remains on Australia’s electoral roll.
Nazi death camp guard dies at 91
John Demjanjuk, a retired US carworker who was convicted of being a guard at the Nazis’ Sobibor death camp despite steadfastly maintaining during three decades of legal battles that he had been mistaken for someone else, died yesterday, his son said. He was 91.
Despite being convicted in May of 28,060 counts of being an accessory to murder and sentenced to five years in prison, Demjanjuk died a free man in a nursing home in the southern Bavarian town of Bad Feilnbach, after being released pending his appeal.
John Demjanjuk Jr, in Ohio, in the US, said his father died in the night of natural causes. Demjanjuk had terminal bone marrow disease, chronic kidney disease and other ailments.
16 people injured in Poland bus crash
Sixteen people were injured, four of them seriously, when a bus collided with a car in central Poland yesterday.
The accident happened in Kromolin Stary, a village near the city of Lodz. The bus was carrying 19 people, including three adults and 16 teenagers . The station TVN24 said the bus collided with a Toyota Yaris.