Few people have forgotten how, as a young mayor of Neuilly 16 years ago, he walked into a nursery school and negotiated with an armed hostage-taker threatening to blow up the building.

• 很少有人会忘记16年前，年纪轻轻的纳伊市长萨科奇如何走进一家托儿所，成功地应付胁有人质，危言炸楼的持枪歹徒。