The "Bygmalion trial" opens this Thursday before the Paris Criminal Court.
The debates are scheduled to last until June 22, four half-days per week.
Fourteen people are fired.
They must answer for having organized a fraudulent overrun of the ceiling authorized for the second round of the 2012 presidential election, to the tune of 22 million euros.
For the benefit of the defeated candidate, Nicolas Sarkozy.
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The most visible defendant - and who will undoubtedly not be present for the raising of the curtain - is the one who incurs the least.
Mr. Sarkozy is being prosecuted for illegal financing of the electoral campaign, an offense punishable by one year in prison and a fine of 3,750 euros.
The penalties provided for the offenses alleged against the leaders of the communication group Bygmalion and other UMP executives (forgery and use, breach of trust and concealment, swindling and complicity) go up to five years in prison and 375,000 euros in fine.
The affair broke out in the press in 2014, with the revelations
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