Pave: Life In France, III

Le jour 238 de Sarko

It has been well over a year since we did one of these. Nonetheless, life in France progresses nicely without us.

SEVERED FINGER MAILED TO FRENCH MINISTER

PARIS January 7, 2008 (Fox News) - France's justice minister wants to know why someone sent her a severed finger in the mail, a ministry spokesman said Monday.

A package, containing the finger and a letter addressed to Justice Minister Rachida Dati, was opened by the ministry's mail service after it was received Friday, spokesman Guillaume Didier said. He gave no information about what the letter said.

... Didier said he could not confirm a report in regional daily Ouest France, which said the sender was a former hair-salon owner in western France with business and legal problems, who had cut off part of his own finger and sent it to Dati. Ouest France did not give a source for the information.

For reasons not clear to us, Fox News has filed this story in its Entertainment section. [Pause.] Curiouser and curiouser.

Other posts in this series can be found here and here.

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