While accompanying her husband, Nicolas Sarkozy, traveling to New York during his mandate as President, Carla Bruni thwarted the surveillance of the American “Secret Service” in the middle of the night. The former First Lady recounts this moment on Europe 1, Sunday. INTERVIEW
Make the wall, presidential version: while she accompanied her husband, Nicolas sarkozy, during a trip to New York, Carla Bruni managed to escape from the hotel where the presidential couple were staying over ten years ago. At the microphone of Europe 1, Sunday, she describes this embarrassing night escapade for the security attributed to the French head of state and his wife.
“It was night, my man had fallen asleep quietly,” said the former First Lady of this moment which took place at the Carlyle Hotel in New York, in the very posh Upper district. East Side. “He had a lot of things to do during the day. I don’t know where the men had gone. Secret service. There were usually five of them on the landing of the hotel room and there, there was no one, “the wife of Nicolas Sarkozy, tried since this week for “corruption” and “influence peddling” in the “wiretapping” case.
“It was my lucky day”
“I took the elevator and went downstairs. In the lobby, there was no one, whereas there were usually twenty guys with earphones. In front of the hotel, there was no one . I deduced that it was my lucky day. ” The singer then took the opportunity to run on Madison Avenue, as she recently confided to Paris Match (media from the Lagardère group, like Europe 1). “I was 14 again!”
The return to the hotel caused a funny scene around the ex-model. “The men of Secret service were there when I got home. And when they saw me come out of the elevator, it was a great moment of dismay, “she laughs today at the microphone of Isabelle Morizet.
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