France First Family Scandal: Humiliated French 1st Lady Valerie Trierweiler The New Diana?! As She Arrives India For Charity Visit After Split With President Hollande

Former French First Lady Arrives in mumbai after humiliation

• The president’s ex has arrived in Mumbai, India for a charity visit
• Has lost her title and her webpage has already been deleted following split
• Hollande’s affair with French actress Julie Gayet was exposed by press
• Meanwhile, thousands took to the streets of Paris today in a ‘Day of Anger’ protest against the Presiden

Valerie Trierweiler has arrived in India for a charity visit following her split from President Hollande.
The former First Lady arrived at Mumbai airport soon after midnight local time and was swamped with photographers as she made her way to a waiting limousine.

 

Ms Trierweiler’s webpage on the official Elysee Palace website has already been removed, along with her official Twitter account.

 

Her five staff office at the Elysee has also been shut down, and she is not expected to enter the palace again.

 

Ms Trierweiler was wearing a dark trouser suit and looked relaxed and happy after enjoying first class service on the Air France plane.

 

Three bodyguards and a number of Indian Army soldiers tried to keep the crowds back as Ms Trierweiler smiled broadly and waived regally without commenting.

 

Ms Trierweiler got into the back of a waiting black limousine by herself and continued to smile and waive as she was driven to the five star Taj Majal Palace hotel.

 

The rest of her entourage followed in a second limousine.

 

Her arrival comes within a few hours of the president confirming his separation from the firebrand 48-year-old with a brusque 18 word statement.

 

Despite the split, Ms Trierweiler has made clear she wants to remain on the world stage.

It led to her being widely mocked by senior women politicians, with former health minister Roselyne Bachelot tweeting: ‘Valerie – the new Diana?’

 

The late Princess Diana and self-styled ‘Queen of Hearts’ famously devoted herself to humanitarian and charitable causes following her divorce from Prince Charles.

 

Diana was always a member of the Royal Family but Ms Trierweiler, in contrast, has now officially lost her title of first lady, and all the perks that go with it.

 

Earlier today, she was driven on to the runway at Charles de Gaulle airport in a limousine accompanied by police outriders, and will have a bodyguard and her old chief of staff, Patrice Biancone, with her in India.

But an Elysee Palace aide said this was solely to ensure they can ‘keep an eye’ on a woman who is now viewed as a loose cannon who could do a great deal of harm to Mr Hollande.

 

It will be the last time Ms Trierweiler enjoys government support on a foreign trip, the aide insisted.

The twice divorced Paris Match journalist nicknamed ‘The Rottweiler’ has been briefing the media ever since photographs were published on January 10th which proved the president was having an affair with the actress Julie Gayet, 41.

 

Ms Trierweiler is thought to be behind reports in today’s Le Parisien which contain ‘a friend’ saying: ‘What’s sad for her, is not so much leaving the Elysee and all its decorum, but losing the man whom she loves’.

 

She refused to sign a legal agreement confirming the split, leaving Mr Hollande to awkwardly announce it by himself in a phone call to French news agency AFP on Saturday.

 

Ms Trierweiler is said to have smashed up antique furniture on hearing of her then boyfriend’s cheating, and then spent eight days in a public hospital suffering from stress.

 

She then moved to La Lanterne, the hugely luxurious presidential retreat in Versailles, west of Paris, which comes complete with heated swimming pool and wine cellar.

 

Such behaviour infuriated ordinary French people, who have seen Mr Hollande’s Socialist policies plunge the country into economic disaster.

 

Organised and partly funded by the charity Action Contre La Faim (Fight Against Hunger, ACF), the trip to India will see Ms Trierweiler staying at the five star Taj Palace Hotel in Mumbai.

 

One of her trips in India will be to a children’s hospital, and her friend Charlotte Valandrey – who is accompanying her on the trip – said today: ‘This is a strong woman, a woman of heart, who is engaged in the ACF project since long before Francois Hollande became president’.

Nadine Morano, another former minister, said she had ‘no sympathy’ for Ms Trierweiler, and that the whole saga proved how much the Socialist government was ‘prepared to lie’ to the people of France.

Jean-Marie Le Pen, founder of the Front National, in turn said that Ms Trierweiler had not even divorced her second husband, and attacked Mr Hollande for having four children out of wedlock.

‘Exemplary president?’ tweeted Mr Pen. ‘Not in private – four children out of marriage and a non-divorced mistress whom he couldn’t even be faithful to!’

 

A mass ‘Day of Anger’ demonstration was held against the Hollande administration in Paris today, with organisers saying 120,000 people calling for the president’s resignation took part.

 

Riot police were out on the streets of Paris tonight as protestors went on the rampage.

 By nightfall, there were 150 arrests, mainly for public order offences, and some 20 officers were injured.

 

Many were protesting against the Socialist’s appalling economic record, which has seen unemployment soar above the 3 million mark and the cost of living spiral.

 

The worst violence was in the upmarket 7th arrondissement, close to the French Parliament, where hooded protestors started to light fires and throw missiles at police.

 

‘Iron bars and garbage was among the material being thrown, and we had to respond with tear gas,’ said one officer. ‘Some police have been very badly injured’.

 

Manuel Valls, the Interior Minister, immediately appealed for calm, blaming the trouble on ‘individuals, disparate groups, and the extreme and ultra right’.

 

He said there aim was ‘to create confusion by violently attacking representatives of law enforcement’, adding that ‘everything will be done to find the perpetrators of these outrages.’

 

An opinion poll published over the weekend confirmed that Ms Trierweiler was by far the most unpopular first lady in the history of modern France.

 

Mr Hollande, who had never married, is now expected to remain a ‘bachelor president’ for a while, while continuing with his relationship with Ms Gayet outside the Elysee.

 

Ms Gayet has not spoken since the pictures were published of Mr Hollande leaving their Paris love nest on the back of a moped, while using a crash helmet as a poor disguise.

 

 

Source: DailyMail