Berlin/Paris
- French President Nicolas Sarkozy has posted on Facebook a picture of himself with a
pickaxe at the Berlin Wall on 9
Nov. 1989 (photo).
The Facebook post is entitled 'Memories of the fall of the Berlin wall, Nov. 9,
1989'. At the time, Sarkozy was a 34-year-old official in the conservative RPR
party. In the post, Sarkozy says he arrived in West Berlin with a group of French politicians on the morning of 9 November, crossed Checkpoint Charlie to the East, and headed for the Brandenburg
gates. Jean-Jacques de Peretti, then also an official with the RPR party, says they went to Berlin in a private jet based on information from a German senator who said
things were starting to move.
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French daily
' Le Figaro' published archived articles showing that
Sarkozy was at an event in France on Nov. 9 and that he went to Berlin on Nov. 16.
The collapse of the Berlin Wall did not come until late in the day on 9 November, and West Berliners did not begin attacking the Wall until the following day.
