Security around France’s first lady Carla Bruni Sarkozy has been tightened up amid reported fears that she may be the “priority target” of a terrorist assassination plot. Security services believe President Nicolas Sarkozy’s wife is now “high up” on al-Qaeda’s hitlist of potential VIP victims in France, it was revealed.
Fears for Bruni’s safety come after Osama bin Laden issued a chilling personal threat to kill French citizens in revenge for France backing the war in Afghanistan and their new law banning the burqa.The al-Qaeda terror chief released an audio tape last week warning, “It is a simple equation, if you kill, you will be killed.”
