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We're gonna try. Okay. Please, if we can, if we can have a little bit of calm and

shut down the door. On January 8th last year, Carlos Gone summoned the world's media to

an upscale club on the Beirut Waterfront to explain himself.

Okay, so we have the Lebanese here. Where are the Lebanese? Everywhere, everywhere. Okay,

no, where are the French? Where are the French? Okay, La France is here. Where is Japan?

Japan? Japan is here, very good. Where do you buy that?

Well, it was a bit of a media circus, actually. That's journalist Hunt's Grimal, co-author of

a new book on Gone called Collision Course. He remembers how throngs of reporters were locked

outside even though they'd flown in from Dubai or Detroit or Tokyo like him. He and about 100

other reporters were allowed into the room with Gone. Once they were inside that room, you know,

all hell broke loose when they wanted to get attention from Gone.

I mean, during the Q&A, it was like survival of the fittest. Everybody was jostling for that

microphone, yanking it out of people's hands, shouting over each other.

Just 10 days earlier, the former CEO of Nissan and Renault was awaiting trial in Tokyo,

facing years in prison for alleged financial misconduct. That's when he jumped bail,

stowed away in a music equipment box and escaped in a private jet to Lebanon. It's where he grew up,

it's also a place that does not have an extradition treaty with Japan.

Hunt's Grimal was able to get in a question when Gone called on him,

as the Asia editor for Automotive News, Hunt has covered Gone for years.

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