Read receipt: the Ambassador of France to China, Bertrand Lortholary, opens the email “Why psychological torture for me?”

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The following day, the mail system of Bertrand Lortholary, Ambassador of France to China, generates the same kind of automatic receipt: the message was read on 30 December 2023 at 18:45:59 (China Standard Time, GMT+8). As with the first receipt, the document names the subject — “FW: Why psychological torture for me?” — its recipients, and the original send time of 28 December 2023 at 23:36:54 (China Standard Time, GMT+8).

Two of the most senior French officials in China have therefore each opened, within forty-eight hours of one another, an email whose subject line states a claim of psychological torture and whose attachments carry a psychiatrist’s recorded assessment of it.

Nature of the document: read receipt — generated automatically by the recipient’s own mail system. It is the French administration’s own document, not a text written by Vincent B. Le Corre.

Original language of the message: French.