Sarkozy: No Bastille pardons for prisoners

French President Nicolas Sarkozy is offering no mass mercy to the nation’s prisoners on Bastille Day this year.

Sarkozy: No Bastille pardons for prisoners

French President Nicolas Sarkozy is offering no mass mercy to the nation’s prisoners on Bastille Day this year.

Sarkozy said in an interview published yesterday that he is breaking – yet again – from traditions championed by predecessor Jacques Chirac, this time by refusing to grant a mass pardon to thousands of prisoners on the nation’s biggest holiday, July 14.

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