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Nicolas Sarkozy sentenced to one year firm: a historic first and political aftershocks

2021-03-01T19:37:20.494Z


The former president was sentenced to three years in prison, including one year, on Monday. If he says that "the fight is not over," the decision


Earthquake.

This Monday, Nicolas Sarkozy, former President of the Republic, was convicted for corruption, to three years in prison, one of which was firm, in the so-called “wiretapping” affair.

It did not take more than these two lines to plunge part of the political world - its political family, above all - into a state of astonishment.

He was suspected of having tried to obtain confidential information from a magistrate at the Court of Cassation, in return for favors, in the context of the Bettencourt case, in 2014.

It is a page of history that the last president of the right would have been careful not to write: he became the second president condemned under the Fifth Republic, after Jacques Chirac in 2011 in the case of fictitious jobs in the city. from Paris.

And especially the first to be sentenced to prison.

He's going to appeal.

VIDEO.

Case of "tapping": Nicolas Sarkozy arrives at court to know the judgment

"The fight is not over," said Nicolas Sarkozy's entourage to the Parisian, who points to "a deliberation that does not correspond to the reality of things".

"Calm and determined", the former President of the Republic "took things with distance and coolness", it is said, while he seemed to accuse the blow during the delivery of the judgment.

On the right, we have seen a flood of messages oscillating between simple reiterated support for the one who remains the last tutelary figure of his camp, and some more vehement criticisms of the court decision.

“Unwavering support” commented the president of the Les Républicains party Christian Jacob, denouncing “the severity of the sentence retained” as “absolutely disproportionate”.

"All avenues of appeal must be used so that he can wash his honor and that the whole truth be made," wrote the president (ex-LR) of Hauts-de-France, Xavier Bertrand.

Everyone was convinced that the prosecution case was too light to give rise to a substantial sentence, or a sentence at all.

Judicial earthquake and political aftershocks

Before the judgment, the relatives of the former president had indeed been confident.

Didn't he himself approach the deadline "without excitement or excitement" as argued by those around him?

For a long time, the Sarkozysts ridiculed the National Financial Prosecutor's Office (PNF), an institution created under François Hollande, accused of carrying out "political justice".

But if it was the PNF who had opened a judicial investigation in this case in 2014, many thought that the magistrates of the 32nd chamber of the Paris Criminal Court, independent, would clear the former head of state.

Fault.

"The file appears weak, but the acquittal would have discredited the PNF", we then heard several times from some right-wing executives.

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A judicial earthquake… but with what political aftershocks?

If Nicolas Sarkozy cultivates his image “beyond” the parties, withdrawn from the partisan game, he also suggests that in the event of a “historic crisis”, he could be brought back into the fray.

Side The Republicans, where we despair of finding a new hero, some of the most loyal Sarkozysts dreamed of seeing him return to the game. Without clinging too much to it.

"Sarko, I do not believe much and it's a shame ..." recently sighed one of his most loyal lieutenants, believing that his failed return in 2016, beaten in the 1st round of the primary on the right, had permanently vaccinated him against the temptation of yet another comeback.

If a former adviser estimated that the trials had "awakened the political animal" in him, the conviction of this Monday does not make it difficult to envisage an improvement concerning his possible political future.

Especially since he must honor, shortly, a new judicial appointment.

“What this decision changes is the atmosphere in which the Bygmalion trial will begin

(Editor's note: March 17)

, fears a sarkozyst.

He would have approached her more forcefully if her honesty had been recognized now.

“Linked to the financing of his 2012 presidential campaign, this new episode also promises its share of shocks.

Source: leparis

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