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Tue 12 Dec 2008Outrage over brutal treatment of journalist
PRESIDENT NICOLAS Sarkozy's ruling UMP yesterday reacted with a good-cop-bad-cop routine to growing outrage over the brutal arrest and detention of a former director of Libérationnewspaper.
The police, who insulted the journalist in front of his children, handcuffed him and twice strip-searched him "followed standard procedure", said the ministers for the interior and justice.
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