In France a weekly newspaper, the Ouest-France Dimanche, alleged that Coudray had known about its listeria problem since last November.

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On December 16th, Le Journal du Dimanche, the Sunday newspaper, carried an open letter from him to the Prime Minister.

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The Sunday tabloid published a survey on Greece that it had commissioned with Italy's Corriere della Sera, Spain's ABC and France's Le Journal Du Dimanche.

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He abandoned his citizenship in an emotional, sweeping open letter addressed to French Prime Minister Jean-Marc Ayrault that was published in mid-December in the Sunday paper Le Journal du Dimanche.

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It appears that they started as idle tweets that were picked up by the foreign press only after they were referred to in a blog on the Journal du Dimanche's website.

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