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Suicide Upsets Sarkozy Tour

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• June 24: An Israeli soldier takes a picture of the car of French President Nicolas Sarkozy as it passes a section of Israel's separation barrier in the West Bank city of Bethlehem. Later at the ceremony, the suicide of an Israeli officer would prompt bodyguards to whisk Sarkozy and his wife away.
• June 24: Israeli Prime Minister Ehud Olmert, Israel's President Shimon Peres, French President Nicolas Sarkozy, and wife Carla Bruni-Sarkozy.
• June 24: Sarkozy and wife walk to their plane after the suicide incident to depart for Palestine on their three-day tour of the Middle East.
• June 24: An Israeli security guard holds his weapon after a departure ceremony for French President Nicolas Sarkozy at Ben Gurion Airport in Tel Aviv.
• June 24: French President Nicolas Sarkozy, bottom right, follows wife Carla Bruni-Sarkozy, top, as she runs onto an airplane during a departure ceremony at Ben Gurion Airport in Tel Aviv. An Israeli police officer fatally shot himself in the head on Tuesday at an airport departure ceremony for Sarkozy, authorities said, sparking fear of an assassination attempt and prompting bodyguards to whisk Sarkozy and Israeli Prime Minister Ehud Olmert away from the scene.
• June 24: Nicolas Sarkozy speaks at a French Israeli economic conference at the David Citadel Hotel in Jerusalem, before the suicide of an Israeli police officer on scene forced Sarkozy’s evacuation. France's president is on a three-day visit to Israel and the Palestinian territories.
• June 24: Israeli security forces guard Israeli Prime Minister Ehud Olmert, in car, after he was rushed into an armored car during a departure ceremony for the French president and his wife.