Patrice de Maistre, Liliane Bettencourt’s financial adviser, has been detained for questioning. Maistre, arrested for the second time in a scandal that has embarrassed Nicolas Sarkozy’s administration, will be asked to clear up a number of contradictions between his first interrogation and the statements of Eric Woerth, the former UMP treasurer.
SAUDI KING AND SYRIAN PRESIDENT ON JOINT VISIT TO BEIRUT
President Assad of Syria and King Abdullah of Saudi Arabia are paying a joint visit to Beirut today.…