| French morality police accuse reality show creator The creator of the program "Fort Boyard", a recognized master of French reality shows, Dominique Ambiel, found himself in the dock. His case was supposed to be heard in criminal court yesterday, but due to the judges' workload it was postponed until the end of June. A television producer is accused of molesting a 17-year-old girl. But that's not all. Dominique Ambiel is also the closest advisor to French Prime Minister Jean-Pierre Raffarin and is responsible for PR and public relations in the head of government’s office. More precisely, he answered - after what happened to him, the ambitious businessman could no longer be in the Matignon Palace, the residence of the head of government of the Fifth Republic.
On the night of April 19-20 this year, the morality police caught an imposing man with a familiar appearance at the intersection of Avenue de Ternes and Boulevard Pereire. In the car of 50-year-old Monsieur Ambiel was a Romanian prostitute who had just been picked up on one of the Marshall boulevards. Imported from the banks of the Danube and Tisza, the priestess of love was barely 17 years old. According to French laws, for a client this will result in three years in prison and a 45 thousand euro fine. In Paris, even presidents are allowed to have almost official mistresses, but the pleasures of adults with children are looked upon strictly here. A TV producer from the government also threw a scandal at the police: “You idiots don’t know who you stopped! You will answer for this!”
Dominique Ambiel considers insults towards the police to be his only unworthy act on that ill-fated evening. He denies the rest: “I am stunned by what is happening. Never in my life did I think that it was so easy to denigrate a person. I swear on my honor: I have never in my life turned to the services of prostitutes.” The defendant's lawyer, Marie-Alix Canu-Bernard, also agrees. “My client’s testimony is clear, but for some reason the investigators don’t want to believe my client,” Maître Canu-Bernard told the Vremya Novostei newspaper. “There is no material evidence against Monsieur Ambiel and there cannot be.”
The reality show master's version of events is as follows. He was calmly driving at three o'clock in the morning in his own car and suddenly saw two prostitutes fighting on the side of the road. One of them rushed for protection to the Matignon adviser’s car, which had stopped at a traffic light. Monsieur Ambiel wanted to lock the doors (otherwise, by the way, it is not recommended to drive in Paris both day and night), but in a panic he pressed the button to open the doors. So the shameless girl ended up in Monsieur Ambiel’s car, only to be detained two hundred meters later by the night brigade of the morality police. The Romanian's script is not so complicated. According to her, this is not the first time Monsieur Ambiel has resorted to her services; in the last week before the scandal, he secluded himself with her in a nearby hotel room at least twice.
Libel? Vile defamation organized by the leftist opposition against the one who, not without reason, is called the prime minister's eminence grise? Dominique Ambiel has known Jean-Pierre Raffarin since his youth. At that time, both were activists in a centrist youth organization. But doesn’t such discrediting of the government on the eve of the European elections seem too cynical? The investigation will show. In the meantime, the talkative Romanian woman was placed in an orphanage, where her morality is monitored by the Voice of the Child charity organization. After all, night flowers are also flowers of life. Peter Rozvarin, Paris |
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