Jean-Claude Debard, boss of Mitsubishi France: Montebourg is a "mental moron"

Jean-Claude Debard is known for his outspokenness. President of Emil Frey France, importer in France of the Japanese brands Mitsubishi, Daihatsu and Subaru, this veteran of automobile distribution openly attacked Arnaud Montebourg, the minister of productive recovery. In front of an audience of specialized journalists, gathered on the Côte d'Azur for the presentation and testing of the new 4x4 Mitsubishi Outlander, Jean-Claude Debard stated purely and simply, according to laprovence.com: "I do not understand this minister who does not does not know its automobile files, which represent 25% of France's income and 10% of employment in our country, because there are not only manufacturers but also those who work by or for the automobile directly or indirectly".

"All suffer it"

The president of Mitsubishi France added, according to laprovence.com: "this mental moron, this moron, increases the ecological penalties, reduces the speed of drivers on the Paris ring road and rots the lives of motorists, of all social origins ... All undergo it!" The fiery importer specifies: "He is stupid and does not understand anything. You can quote me without worrying... Thanks to my previous statements on national television channels, I already have a tax audit!"

Mitsubishi distances itself

MitsubishiMotors immediately saw fit to point out that the remarks attributed to Jean-Claude Debard did not engage the Japanese manufacturer, a 4x4 specialist and therefore particularly mistreated by the new hardening of the allegedly ecological government penalty in France... Mitsubishi's communication services have also tried to convince the press that the remarks would not have been made in this form. The Committee of French Automobile Manufacturers (CCFA) nevertheless immediately published a very diplomatic communiqué, which "strongly condemns the insulting remarks of Jean-Claude Debard, president of Mitsubishi France, with regard to the Minister of Recovery productive, reported by the daily La Provence. A beautiful jargon that contrasts with the abrupt remarks attributed by laprovence.com to Jean-Claude Debard, that's for sure!

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