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Intimate videos of Carla Bruni stolen from her ex-lover
Peter Allen28.04.09
Hundreds of "highly intimate" images of Carla Bruni and an ex-lover have been stolen during a burglary.
Police fear they could now be made public, overshadowing an official trip to Spain with her husband, president Nicolas Sarkozy, which began yesterday.
Thieves broke into the Left Bank flat where they found the photos.
"The thieves appeared to know exactly what they were looking for - taking highly intimate prints, a camera full of further images, videos, and numerous computer files," said a detective on the case.
Police now fear that thieves could take advantage of Miss Bruni's status by selling the pictures for hundreds of thousands of pounds. Otherwise they could be posted on the web to cause maximum embarrassment to Mr Sarkozy.
"We are doing everything we can to retrieve the images, and would ask anyone with any information about them to come forward immediately," the detective added.
Nude pictures of Miss Bruni were released just before a state visit to Britain last year. Official pictures of Miss Bruni have been making front pages and leading TV new bulletins during the current trip to Madrid.
It is the third time this year that people linked to Mr Sarkozy have been burgled.
In February the home of the president's brother, pharmaceutical boss François Sarkozy, in the Paris suburb of Neuilly, was raided, with the loss of official documents and thousands of euros in cash. A week earlier half-a-million pounds of designer jewellery was taken from the Neuilly apartment of Cécilia Attias, president Sarkozy's second wife.
All three break-ins are of particular embarrassment to the law and order obsessed president. The fact that all the victims are people to whom he is linked will inevitably lead to conspiracy theories. A police source said: "A judicial inquiry has been launched. We cannot rule out a link with earlier burglaries."
Reader views (6)
This would be cheering news were it not for the fact that with every day Mme Bruni looks more and more like former First Lady Laura Bush.
Still, these pictures were a while ago, before the transmutation took place.
- Clive, London
I am sure there are intimate pictures of her scattered all over the world with numerous boyfriends.
She is hardly shy!!!
- William Jenkins, london
As President of France, he is presumably the Head of all security operations in that country. Hasn't he heard of intruder & burglar alarms from Trotters Independent Traders? They will also install CCTV at very reasonable price, and they do have their own ladders.
- Haskey, London SE1
What good would a European law banning publication do on the WORLD WIDE web?
- Butch, London, UK
There should be a euorpean law banning the publication of any intimiate photos of anyone who does not want them published...its a horrific invasion of a persons life...I feel for Carla she does not deserve this...she is doing her best to promote france and live her life..
- Ruby Cooper, Nice France and London UK
"Raphaël is believed to have entrusted the pictures to him because he did not want them to embarrass his new partner or Mr Sarkozy" - oh really! Why didn't he just destroy them then?
- Paul, London
