Anyone who has such a grand design that he becomes uncertain likes to reassure himself with a “plan B” of more modest ambition.
The trial of Nicolas Sarkozy, Thierry Herzog and Gilbert Azibert gives the impression that the alleged corruption and influence peddling affair is only the “plan B” of the complex file linked to the supposed Libyan financing of the victorious presidential campaign of 2007.
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Justice deployed colossal means to confuse the three men, once warned of the existence of the telephone lines "Paul Bismuth".
The National Financial Prosecutor's Office (PNF), associated with the investigation, even considered it useful to afford a spare wheel, in the form of a secret preliminary investigation.
Perhaps because the judges had difficulty in tying up the corruption component in law.
If this "bis-Muth" investigation, concealed from the defense, had made it possible to characterize a violation of the secrecy of the investigation, the court would have had at least one offense, very small but solid, to be brought under the control.
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