Tokyo

“Urgent: press conference tonight at 21 hours. Carlos Ghosn, former CEO of Nissan, and Junichiro Hironaka, his lawyer.” Friday mid-day, the notification of the FCCJ in Tokyo, the foreign correspondents club of Japan, the effect of a bomb. And causes the panic of the journalists in transhumance to 500 kilometres away to Osaka, where they cover the G20 summit.

Carlos Ghosn, arrested last November, charged four times by the prosecutor’s office of Tokyo, released on bail in late April, has not said a word in public since the video he has released on 9 April. His speech is thus an event… that has not taken place. Two hours after his announcement, the press conference of the ex-boss is cancelled.

According to Junichiro Hironaka, these are the girls of Carlos Ghosn, who have been dissuaded from speaking out, afraid of the consequences. On April 3, while he was on bail for a month, he had announced on his brand new Twitter account …