The former investigating judge, lawyer at the Paris Bar*, recalls the way in which the case that led to the sentencing by the Paris Court of Appeal of Nicolas Sarkozy, on May 17, to three years in prison, including one year firm. It all started with the implementation of the "corruption pact" It is telephone conversations without follow-up that are sanctioned.

It clearly has an eliminatory character, from a political point of view, of a former president that some magistrates, especially those close to...