For french-speaking, here is a link of a tv-programm specialized on current events, broadcasted on a very serious french channel, France 5:
C'est dans l'air. Yesterday, the subject was "Monaco: le rocher des rumeurs / Monaco, the rumours's rock". On the platform, maître Thierry Lacoste, the princely couple's lawyer, Colombe Pringle,
Point de Vue' editor, Christophe Barbier, the editor of L'Express, Pierre Abramovici, journalist and historian.
The video is more than an hour long so I didn't watch the whole. But a few things have been said.
- Maître Lacoste is about to summon
L'Express. He denys the attempted flight. He will only summon
L'Express. His office has not enough time and lawyers to summon all the papers who wrote about the supposed flight. He has about two hundred documents to give to the court about the attempted flight.
He doesn't believe Christophe Barbier is lying but he thinks he has been mistaken and given false informations. He believes the wedding is a love wedding. He reminds that a wedding with a billion watchers is a source of an intense stress. Moreover, at a IOC meeting, families never sleep at the same hotel so it is not unusual that wife are in other hotels. He denies there is a third child. There is no negociations between the palace and a supposed mother and no request coming from a former lover of the prince.
- Christophe Barbier holds his own. He says he has several sources, not related to each others, and he won't display them till the case comes into court. He spoke about sources "at the closest to the palace". He reminds everybody about the protection of the sources (a fundamental principle in France - added by me) and is stunned to be asked the name of his sources by a fellow journalist. He looks quiet and not at all disturbed by the coming summoning.
He is under the impression maître Lacoste is more Albert's than Charlene's lawyer.
- There is a video with an interview of a people press' editor (if I am not mistaken about the title of her newspaper, it is very close to "yellow press"). She says they watched the wedding with a woman who is a translator for people with hearing disabilities and who can read upon the lips. This translator says prince Albert constantly gave Charlene orders during the ceremony: "go into the car", "kneel in front of the priest", "don't cry" ... Alas, the video keeps speaking of the honeymoon in South Africa. Maître Lacoste dismisses this as rubbish (or something like this).
- Colombe Pringle criticizes the princely palace's communication. She states Point de Vue has some sources about the flight which would confirm Christophe Barbier's paper. She gives no precision. However, she says there is nothing sure about the reason of the attempted flight. The pic on
Point de Vue's cover was taken in South Africa in February.
- According to maître Lacoste, the honeymoon after the IOC meeting was in South Africa.
- Maître Lacoste is criticial towards papers on Internet, according to him informations are not checked when published on Internet. Colombe Pringle and Christophe Barbier protest.
- Their is a marriage settlement. Very simple. A notary appeared for and with Charlene. Confirmed by maître Lacoste.
- According to Pierre Abramovici (born in Monaco, former inhabitant of the rock),
Nice Matin, the only paper specialized in Monaco, can't even published something critical about the princely family.
- Charlene is called "the sad princess" in Monaco.