Sarkozy’s Sympathy For Jin Jing
Olympic Torch, News April 21st, 2008
Jin Jing is the girl in the wheelchair who was shoved by an over-zealous protester in Paris. Everyone in China already knows her name, since the video of her turning to put her body between the torch and the attacker has made her a national hero.
Today in Shanghai, French Senate President Christian Poncelet read a letter from French president Nicolas Sarkozy, offering his sympathy and regrets to Jin Jing.
“I would like to express to you my deep feeling towards the way you were shoved in Paris on April 7 when you were holding the Olympic flame. You showed an outstanding courage, which honors you, and (through you) all your country,” Sarkozy was quoted as saying in the letter.
On April 7, the torch relay in Paris was interrupted many times. The most notable incident was that several supporters of “Tibetan independence” rushed toward Jin Jing and tried to snatch the torch.
“I understand that the Chinese people’s feelings were hurt by what went on that day, and especially by the intolerable attack you suffered and which I condemn with the utmost force,” Poncelet read from President Sarkozy’s letter.
“What happened in Paris on April 7 has engendered a feeling of bitterness in your country. I want to assure you that the incidents that were brought about by a few people on this sad day don’t reflect the feelings of my fellow countrymen for the Chinese people,” the letter says.
Via Xinhua
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