Paris - A controversy arose in France Monday over President Nicolas Sarkozy's Facebook account of his visit to Berlin on November 9, 1989, for the fall of the Wall. Several French internet media noted that it would have been unlikely for Sarkozy to have been interested in "information coming out of Berlin, that seemed to announce a change" on the morning of November 9, as he maintains, since news that East Germans would be allowed to travel to the West was not reported until the evening.
In addition, according to Alain Auffray's blog for the daily Liberation, Sarkozy - who was then deputy head of the ruling RPR party - could not have joined "a large and jubilant crowd" at the Brandenburg Gate.
On the evening of November 9, the crowds massed in East Berlin, at the Prenzlauer Berg, Auffray says. "West Berliners did not begin attacking the Wall until the next day, November 10," he writes.
Asked about the apparent flaws in Sarkozy's story, Franck Louvrier, his press and communications advisor, insisted to the German Press Agency
