Gilbert Azibert is categorical:
"
Thierry Herzog
never asked me."
Understand: to obtain information from colleagues at the Court of Cassation on an appeal in progress.
Even less to try to influence the decision of the supreme court.
Not just any appeal: the one formed by Nicolas Sarkozy, for whom Me Herzog was then the lawyer, for the purposes of recovering his presidential agendas in the context of the Bettencourt affair.
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Mr. Azibert does not budge.
Yes, Thierry Herzog has been a friend for almost thirty years.
Yes, she regularly dines with him.
But he did not allow himself to be exploited in early 2014 to be agreeable to the former head of state, in exchange for the latter's intervention in his favor for a position he was guilty of in Monaco.
Post which, moreover, no longer really interested him, he assures, since a stroke which occurred in August 2013.
"Who, at the time, was not talking about the Bettencourt affair?"
, asks the accused.
According to him, the magistrates of
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