Carlos Ghosn's wife says she is "worried" for the health of her husband, detained in Japan.

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LOIC VENANCE / AFP

On the occasion of the release of their book 

Together Always

, in which the couple recounts the fourteen months following the arrest of the former CEO of Renault-Nissan in Japan, Carlos Ghosn, and his wife Carole spoke, this Sunday from Lebanon where he now resides, on Europe 1.

Questioned by Frédéric Taddeï, Carlos Ghosn attacked the “hostage system” of Japanese justice, recounting the efforts of the authorities during his imprisonment to extract a confession from him.

"Resilience after the ordeal"

"They attacked my family to make me give in", explained the Franco-Lebanese.

"We raided my computer, our letters, the photos of our children: it was a way to intimidate us and put pressure on Carlos Ghosn, they used the family for that," added his wife Carole Ghosn.

The couple have also chosen to tell their story without a book, entitled 

Together Always (

published by L'Observatoire), published on March 3, written by four hands.

The couple looks back on the fourteen months that followed the arrest of the former CEO of Renault-Nissan in Japan on November 19, 2018 until his incredible flight to Beirut in 2020.

And it was Carole Ghosn who convinced her husband to write this book, the latter being opposed to the project at the beginning: "It's a good idea to speak, to tell our story, like resilience after the ordeal", she said, adding that she had "changed a lot" since the start of the case.

The other objective for Carlos Ghosn is "to recover what can still be" of his reputation.

The businessman also wants to be the voice of the “thousands of people” who “are victims of this Japanese hostage system, also denounced by the United Nations, and which allows the prosecutor to obtain a confession. in 99.4% of cases ”.

"My official abandonment by France takes place on January 11, 2019"

In the book, the Ghosn couple also attack France, believing they have been "abandoned".

“In the first weeks of my arrest, the French government showed some signs of interest in me by asking the Japanese courts to return to France and assuring them that I would return to Japan at the time of the trial.

Alas, this solicitude for me did not last long… The contrast between what I suffered and the nonchalance of the French government shocks me enormously, ”says Carlos Ghosn, according to extracts published this Sunday by the JDD.

“My official abandonment by France took place on January 11, 2019, when the Japanese refused to release me at the end of my first custody and they charged me with a new accusation that will seal my fate.

The French government decides that, coming almost to retirement age, I must give up my functions and that it will appoint a new boss for Renault.

He wanted to make an example and sacrificed 'Private Ghosn'!

He continues.

Carlos Ghosn, who is the subject of a request for arrest by Interpol, now resides in Lebanon, of which he is a national.

The country not extraditing its nationals, the former CEO of Renault remains beyond the reach of Japanese justice.

In France, Carlos Ghosn is the target of several legal investigations into suspicions of misuse of corporate assets at Renault and the Dutch subsidiary of Renault-Nissan, RNBV.

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