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Xavière Tiberi received 200,000 French Francs for a report on francophonie for the general council of the Essonne département. This 36-page long report, possibly written after the payment as a justification, was extremely poorly written (contained numerous spelling and grammatical mistakes, for instance). [1]
In 1998, a justice-ordered search of Jean and Xavière Tiberi's apartment on the Place du Panthéon showed that they possessed illegal firearms. They were not prosecuted in exchange for the destruction of the weapons. [2]
The above actions are sometimes referred to by the press as Corsican mores [3].
On November 9, 2004, Xavière Tibéri and Aurélie Filipetti , an elected official from the French Green Party, wrangled after a tense district council meeting. Each of them accused the other one of assault or threats. Mrs Tibéri had a head trauma, which she claimed was caused by Mrs Filipetti pushing her over; she filed a complaint.
Xavière Tiberi was caricatureAlan Greenspan by Jan Op De Beeck A caricature is a humorous illustration that exaggerates or distorts the basic essence of a person or thing to create an easily identifiable visual likeness. Although caricatures can be made of inanimate objects such as cd on Les Guignols de l'InfoLes guignols de l'info is a satirical latex puppet show on French television. Hosted by a puppet facsimile of TF1 news anchor Patrick Poivre d'Arvor, "Les guignols" are the French equivalent of Spitting Image''. They appeared every weeknight on the Canal+ as an aggressive , dishonest , vulgarThe term vulgar originally meant "of the common people", from the Latin vulgus''. The term is now commonly used to describe things that are, from the viewpoint of the person using the word, in bad taste, indecent, or profane. In Medieval times, it was use and greedGreed is a desire to obtain more money or material possessions or bodily satisfaction than one is considered to need. A more religious term for greed is avarice which is listed as one of the Seven Deadly Sins. Greedy individuals are often believed to be hy woman.