PARIS – His father has zero tolerance for anyone who attacks a police officer, is not too fond of teenage louts, whom he calls rabble, takes an extremely dim view of juvenile delinquency – and is in the middle of an arduous re-election campaign.
So one can only imagine the ear-bending that 14-year-old Louis Sarkozy received after he was accused of throwing a tomato and marbles at a policewoman guarding the Élysée palace.
Nicolas Sarkozy’s youngest son was playing in the Elysee with two friends last Thursday when they reportedly decided to target the officer standing across the road from the palace entrance on the chic Rue du Faubourg Saint-Honore.
The first projectile, said to have been a yellow marble, landed at the policewoman’s feet. Surprised, she looked up to see who had thrown it and a tomato landed beside her on the pavement. The third missile, another marble, hit her cheek, police said yesterday.
The officer asked the gendarmes outside the palace gates to identify the culprits and they pointed to Louis and his friends. A police spokesperson said the officer did not wish to make an official complaint.
Louis was visiting his father from the US where he lives with his mother, Cecilia Attias, Sarkozy’s second wife.
It is not the first time the Sarkozy boys have made headlines. In February the eldest, Pierre (26) caused a scandal after his father despatched a luxury jet to bring him back from Ukraine after he complained of a tummy ache, at a cost of €40,000. – ( Guardianservice)
