An exchange under (very) high supervision. Seven months after being released on bail under very strict conditions, Carlos Ghosn will be able to talk with his wife this Friday at 6 am French time, for exactly 60 minutes. But this conversation will not be "a bubble of oxygen" for the former boss of Renault and Nissan, since it is question here of talking with his wife ... through a screen.
One hour of conversation ... in the presence of a lawyer
This videoconference between Tokyo and New York will be held in the office of Carlos Ghosn's lawyers, the only place where he is allowed to have internet access between 9 am and 5 pm, and in the presence of a Japanese lawyer who speaks English - the language in which the Ghosn couple converses. If the intimacy of this conversation is therefore limited, especially as the topics discussed have been imposed, it is nothing next to its confidentiality: the entire exchange will be on file and the prosecutor will be aware .
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Even if in Carlos Ghosn's camp we speak of a first step, we denounce this treatment that seems normal in Japan. He has not been able to exchange an email, an SMS or a letter with his wife since April denounces François Zimmeray, one of his Parisian lawyers. His wife Carole is neither prosecuted, indicted nor placed under the status of assisted witness in this case, but simply mentioned in the instruction. A staggering situation according to this same lawyer. Especially since the advice of Carlos Ghosn Japanese had repeatedly asked the judge to allow him to see his wife, in vain.
Anyway, when Carlos Ghosn hang up this Friday morning very precisely at 7 o'clock, he will not know when he can talk to his wife Carole again.