In an interview, Prime Minister Elisabeth Borne banged her fist on the table regarding the biography written by a journalist without her consent.
By Martin Pereira for Le Point
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ELisabeth Borne does not intend to let things go. After the publication of a biography about her – The Secret, to Editions de l’Archipel – the Prime Minister has decided to take the publisher to court. In question: the fact that the book evokes certain aspects of his private life, such as the suicide of his father or his sexual orientation.
She explains it to the JDD :“When a journalist [Bérengère Bonte, NDLR] describes in detail the conditions of my father’s suicide, when she makes intrusive remarks about my intimacy, about the relationship with my son, with my ex-husband, when she spreads allegations about my health or my sexual orientation, how to claim that Could this be done with my consent? At some point, we want to say: enough is enough. »
The summons, filed on May 10 before the Nanterre court, requests the deletion, “in any new edition or reprint”, of numerous passages from the biography, under a penalty of 1,000 euros per violation found. Elisabeth Borne is also asking for one euro in damages and 5,000 euros in legal costs.
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In a press release, Editions de l’Archipel defended the quality of the author’s work: “This book, the result of a year of investigation, dozens of interviews, including two long interviews with Elisabeth Borne, as well as others with eminent members of her cabinet, her family and her close circle of friends to whom she had given her consent, is the first biography of the Prime Minister appointed on May 16, 2022.
Fight to stay in office
In the same interview, Elisabeth Borne returned to her weakened situation at Matignon. “I have no doubt that some would see themselves in my place,” she tackles. Before launching: “Moving forward is the only thing that matters to me. […] For the past year, I have been working to provide concrete responses to meet the country’s considerable challenges that our country is facing. […] I want to continue to meet these challenges, and I will put all my energy and determination into it. »