"Hey, you un-French reporter. Get out of here!"

Sarkozy doesn't want foreigners in his own country, but banning foreign journalist from a press conference goes a bit far…

French president Nicolas Sarkozy on Tuesday gave a speech in which he praised the UN as "the only place in the world where all people can speak to one another." Then he held a closed-door press conference in the UN's briefing room, from which journalists without French passports were excluded. A French-speaking reporter who writes, in French, for a newspaper in Lebanon was asked if she holds a French passport. When she said no, she too was excluded. [...]

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