Nicolas Sarkozy, the fall of the president drawn to wealth and glamour

Nicolas Sarkozy, the fall of the president drawn to wealth and glamour

On the morning of May 13, 1993, a man dressed in black and rigged with explosives entered a daycare center in Neuilly-sur-Seine, a wealthy suburb of Paris, and took 20 children and their teacher hostage. In exchange for their release, the kidnapper demanded 100 million francs (about $17 million). But the town’s mayor, a young and ambitious politician named Nicolas Sarkozy, decided to ignore the police’s advice and go in to negotiate with the abd…