Between anger and dismay, Japan has not mince words after the press conference of Carlos Ghosn in Thursday in Lebanon. The government advises him to come and explain himself to the Japanese courts and bring his evidence to the file.
"I want him to come and face Japanese justice, but he fled, even though he was not locked up, that he could see his lawyers freely. Such an attitude is unspeakable, "annoyed Justice Minister Masako Mori at a press conference in Tokyo Thursday morning. She had already reacted during the night.
A trial in Japan
"In any case, his escape is not justifiable," she continued. While awaiting a trial in Japan for various alleged financial embezzlement, Carlos Ghosn fled to Lebanon in late December, breaking the formal ban on leaving the Japanese archipelago where he had been free on bail since last April. "If the accused Ghosn has something to say about his criminal case, let him present his arguments openly in a Japanese court and provide concrete evidence. I sincerely hope that the accused Ghosn will make every effort to present his point of view in the context of fair criminal proceedings in Japan, "the minister repeated.
"My impression is that there was nothing convincing," she added, referring to the last declarations of the Franco-Lebanese-Brazilian. Japanese prosecutors also castigated Carlos Ghosn's assertions in a press release published at the end of his two-and-a-half-hour heated performance in front of cameras around the world. Speaking for the first time in more than a year in front of handpicked journalists (many Japanese have been excluded), he said all the evil he thinks about a justice where he felt condemned before d 'to be judged. For the umpteenth time, he denounced a collusion between the prosecutors, Nissan and the press "which was content to publish leaks of the investigators, without an ounce of criticism or analysis".
An "emotional monologue"
Response from the shepherd to the shepherdess, the commentators of the Japanese televisions did not express Thursday leniency about it. "There is nothing new in his words, no convincing concrete element, it is rather an emotional monologue," summed up a journalist for the public broadcaster NHK. "Ghosn was an outstanding businessman, there is no doubt about it, but in this kind of spectacle, he appears too full of resentment and that lacks solid arguments to base his defense", commented Hisao Inoue, journalist and essayist who has followed the case from the start.
Same tone on the side of Nissan officials named by Carlos Ghosn. "I have no time to waste with someone who plays a drama written by himself after having fled a country by breaking the law," NTV Masakazu Toyoda, an outside administrator of the group, told NTV television. automobile. "If the content of the press conference is limited to that, he could have done it in Japan," joked former Nissan general manager Hiroto Saikawa, denounced by the industry captain as one of his gravediggers.
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