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France’s highest court docket upholds corruption conviction of ex-President Nicolas Sarkozy
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France’s highest court docket upholds corruption conviction of ex-President Nicolas Sarkozy

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By Tycoon Herald 5 Min Read Published December 19, 2024
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France’s highest court docket upholds corruption conviction of ex-President Nicolas Sarkozy

On this Nov. 11, 2019 file picture, French former president Nicolas Sarkozy attends a ceremony on the Arc de Triomphe in Paris.

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PARIS — France’s highest court docket has upheld an enchantment court docket resolution which had discovered former President Nicolas Sarkozy responsible of corruption and affect peddling whereas he was the nation’s head of state.

Sarkozy, 69, faces a 12 months in jail, however is anticipated to ask to be detained at dwelling with an digital bracelet — as is the case for any sentence of two years or much less.

He was discovered responsible of corruption and affect peddling by each a Paris court docket in 2021 and an appeals court docket in 2023 for making an attempt to bribe a Justice of the Peace in trade for details about a authorized case during which he was implicated.

“The convictions and sentences are therefore final,” a Courtroom of Cassation assertion on Wednesday stated.

Sarkozy, who was France’s president from 2007 to 2012, retired from public life in 2017 although nonetheless performs an influential function in French conservative politics. He was among the many visitors who attended the reopening of Notre Dame Cathedral earlier this month.

Sarkozy, in an announcement posted on X, stated “I will assume my responsibilities and face all the consequences.”

He added: “I have no intention of complaining. But I am not prepared to accept the profound injustice done to me.”

Sarkozy stated he’ll search to deliver the case to the European Courtroom of Human Rights, and hopes these proceedings will end in “France being condemned.”

He reiterated his “full innocence.”

“My determination is total in this case as in all others,” he concluded.

Sarkozy’s lawyer, Patrice Spinosi, stated his shopper “will comply” with the ruling. This implies the previous president must put on an digital bracelet, Spinosi stated.

It’s the first time in France’s trendy historical past {that a} former president has been convicted and sentenced to a jail time period for actions throughout his time period.

Sarkozy’s predecessor, Jacques Chirac, was discovered responsible in 2011 of misuse of public cash throughout his time as Paris mayor and was given a two-year suspended jail sentence.

Sarkozy has been concerned in a number of different authorized circumstances. He has denied any wrongdoing.

He faces one other trial subsequent month in Paris over accusations he took hundreds of thousands of {dollars} from then-Libyan dictator Moammar Gadhafi to illegally finance his profitable 2007 marketing campaign.

The corruption case that led to Wednesday’s ruling centered on telephone conversations that came about in February 2014.

On the time, investigative judges had launched an inquiry into the financing of Sarkozy’s 2007 presidential marketing campaign. Through the inquiry, they found that Sarkozy and his lawyer, Thierry Herzog, have been speaking by way of secret cell phones registered to the alias “Paul Bismuth.”

Wiretapped conversations on these telephones led prosecutors to suspect Sarkozy and Herzog of promising Justice of the Peace Gilbert Azibert a job in Monaco in trade for leaking details about one other authorized case involving Sarkozy. Azibert by no means received the put up and authorized proceedings in opposition to Sarkozy have been dropped within the case he was looking for details about.

Prosecutors had concluded, nonetheless, that the proposal nonetheless constitutes corruption below French legislation, even when the promise wasn’t fulfilled. Sarkozy vigorously denied any malicious intention in his supply to assist Azibert.

Azibert and Herzog have additionally been discovered responsible within the case.

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