While
Harry Bellet, Stéphane Davet, Michel Guerrin, Emmanuelle Lequeux, Renaud Machart, Marie Pâris et Thomas Sotinel 
report on
the Mexican fiasco continuing — leading to
a Mexican boycott of France's Année du Mexique, and
the cancellation of
one cultural event through France after
the other 
(along with the attendant
loss of
investments, Mexican as well as French) — the newly-named ambassador to
Tunisia is no more popular now than when
he called for understanding, and for forgiving, Muammar Kaddhafi.
Boris Boillon promises to be polite in the future, writes
Béatrice Gurrey in
Le Monde, after being criticized in
Tunisia, both in government circles and
among common citizens, for having dissed Tunisian journalists (and walked out on them) and for having appeared in
a Mexican boycott of France's Année du Mexique,
and
a swim-suit photo, all of which led one veteran diplomat,
Charles Crettien, to pen a column in
Le Monde calling the nomination of Boillon (and of anyone of his like) "shocking".
On the positive side,
Boris Boillon — an Arab-speaking 41-year-old who served as ambassador in Baghdad — voiced support for George W Bush during the Iraq War! That, of course, makes his sins all the more unforgivable — among the Arabs as among the French…
