Holland receives a sword: "I would need" !!

"I would need!" Jokes François Hollande brandishing a sword than a meter long, during a traditional ceremony in his honor, in the citadel of Masmak in Riyadh, Monday, Dec. 30. After failing to create a diplomatic incident in Algeria last week, the French president does not yet resists giving in humor. Remains to be seen what the joke President alluded ... Why exactly would he need a sword? Could this lead to his battle against unemployment, or to tackle the numerous critical attacks quandle head of state is always lower in the polls?

On a visit to the Saudi capital, François Hollande met Sunday with King Abdullah of Saudi Arabia, particularly about crises in the Middle East. The two heads of state and displayed common positions on Lebanon, Syria and Iran. But moving François Hollande is also an opportunity to promote French industry in the kingdom, became the first customer of France in the Middle East. The French president has thus welcomed the "major contracts" signed in 2013. Arnaud Montebourg, who is also the trip has raised the Saudi project to build 16 nuclear reactors in the coming years, ensuring that "France is very well positioned" to win the future tender.