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Carlos Ghosn's press conference in front of handpicked journalists in Beirut is the first since his arrest in Japan in November 2018, the first also since his flight to Lebanon on the night of December 29 to 30. The Japanese are following the case.
From our correspondent in Tokyo ,
Journalists, businessmen, lawyers in Tokyo note that Carlos Ghosn has used foreign media and their complacency about it since his arrest - to sue Japan, its justice system, Nissan, the government that he accuses of having hatched a plot against him to prevent him from merging Renault and Nissan.
And by himself, Carlos Ghos manages to viciously tarnish the image of Japan abroad, to make forget his charges of breach of trust without the government being able to react because it does not know how to communicate with the world outside.
The Japanese reassembled
Carlos Ghosn's escape proves his guilt, for the Japanese. But they wonder today how Nissan could have tolerated such a leader for so long. Nissan estimates the cost of its embezzlement at $ 300 million. A Carlos Ghosn that Nissan management has accused since his arrest of being a dictator and of having no sympathy for the Japanese. Carlos Ghosn's press conference can only tarnish Nissan's image even more. Nissan's stock market share is at its lowest level in over ten years.
As for the government, it did not emerge from its silence until a week after the escape of Carlos Ghosn to say nothing about the huge flaw in the security of its international airport in Osaka which made it easier to flee to Lebanon. The government has still not released its version of the great escape from Carlos Ghosn. During his press conference, Carlos Ghosn will undoubtedly take up his criticisms of the Japanese judicial system.
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A debate on Japanese justice
And Japanese lawyers have not waited for Carlos Ghosn's " I accuse " against Japanese justice to ask for decades for a reform of the police custody system. This system aims to get the suspect to admit his fault, sometimes under duress, otherwise he remains in prison until his trial.
But the escape of Carlos Ghosn in Lebanon pushes the Ministry of Justice to be inflexible. There will be fewer bail releases, especially if the suspects are foreigners.
Former prosecutors call the judge who authorized Carlos Ghosn's bail all the names of birds. He presented an obvious risk of absconding and the arrest warrant for his wife Carole should have been launched, not yesterday, but much earlier. Because, in the eyes of her former prosecutors, Carole Ghosn was the brain in the organization of her husband's escape.