Now that he has solved the world's major problems, Sarkozy intervenes in his mother-in-law's septic tank feud...

The prefect of the region where Carla Bruni's parents own a chateau has been fired after he failed to resolve a septic tank dispute that President Nicolas Sarkozy had personally promised to fix.

In the latest apparent sign of Mr Sarkozy's penchant for micro-management, the President reportedly signed an order to remove Jacques Laisné, the prefect of the Var region - who has been given no new posting - after he failed to end a long-running dispute in Cap Nègre, Lavandou, an exclusive Mediterranean coastal area.

Mr Sarkozy's in-laws, the Bruni-Tedeschis, have been locked in a dispute with locals on the Riviera since 2003 over removing individual septic tanks in favour of the costly, but less smelly alternative: a centralised, communal sewerage system. More...

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