The French newspaper, Le Monde, writes that, since last week of July, China decided to unilaterally halt all security and judicial relations with France, after Paris gave asylum (and police protection 24 hours per day) to 格蕾絲‧孟 (Grace Mèng) (pictured above), the wife of the former disgraced Interpol President 孟宏伟 (Mèng Hóngweǐ), now in jail on corruption charges. Photo: Le Monde.
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Former Interpol President 孟宏伟 (Mèng Hóngwěi) reappeared, after months of shadow detention, at a hearing in the No. 1 Intermediate People’s Court in 天津 (Tiānjīn), China on June 20, 2019 where he read a televised statement confessing of having taken more than $2 million in bribes and expressing his repentance. His wife, 格蕾絲‧孟 (Grace Mèng), and their two children, who have been granted political asylum in France last May, are still living under police protection for fear of reprisals after she accused Chinese authorities of creating a “fake case” against her husband for power-struggle reasons. Photo: 天津 (Tiānjīn) No. 1 Intermediate People’s Court.
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After serving as President of Interpol for two years — indeed a fact of unprecedented gravity — 孟宏伟 (Mèng Hóngwěi) resigned in absentia in October 2018 via Chinese officials, in consequence of he being detained and accused of taking bribes by Chinese anti-corruption authorities. His unwilling disappearance, if nothing else, may actually have helped his fellow collaborators — not necessarily Chinese — to hide and bury their role and responsibilities in the filthy war for equating the international law to the “law with Chinese characteristics”. Apparently, under 孟宏伟 (Mèng Hóngwěi)’s Presidency, Interpol has issued an avalanche of “red notices” against any kind of “disobedient” people — not only Chinese — so one may think that plenty of Arcovazzis in the global family of the “law and order” gang have lost a meticulous technocrat, a zealous executor of orders, a reference point, and, hopefully (but not too likely), also the “extrajudicial licence” to perpetrate abuses worldwide. The last one was probably against him himself, so as to represent a mystic nemesis. In the end, he knocked on his own door — and, like in Kafka’s Trial, he was not given a fair trial.
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Since her husband’s disappearance at the end of September 2018, 格蕾絲‧孟 (Grace Mèng) (pictured above) and her two young sons kept living in France under 24-hour police protection. Photo: Bruno Amsellem/Divergence for Le Monde.
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