” “The French Catholic daily "La Croix" raises doubts in relation to the participation of the French first lady, Cécilia Sarkozy, in the liberation of the Bulgarian nurses, happened yesterday. The nurses were held in the Libyan prison for eight years. In an editorial with no signature appearing on the front page of the daily yesterday, it is said that the affair generates "confusion of genders and roles", because the negotiations for the liberation of the prisoners are up to the "minister of foreign affairs", and not to "the wife of the head of State". "The role played in Tripoli by Cécilia Sarkozy it is written in the text is not clear, even though, as many others, she was hit by the nurse affair, and questioned about it. They dare hope her intervention was not meant to obtain a media benefit from the liberation. The European diplomats, who have been conducting negotiations with Libya, would not actually appreciate it in the least". The daily wonders whether the "first lady of France" should necessarily play a "role" in an affair which was defined "delicate, highly complex, with lots of things which have not been revealed, yet; a case of parallel diplomacy, and maybe even of subterranean negotiations for trade in French weapons". ” “
