The request for the release of the former Minister of the Interior Claude Guéant, imprisoned since December 13 because he had not paid in time money related to a conviction, will be examined on January 19, learned AFP Tuesday, December 21 with his lawyer, confirming information from Europe 1.
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Claude Guéant, 76, paid 292,000 euros on December 16 to pay off the debt owed to the Public Treasury following a 2017 conviction which the courts considered did not meet the obligations. He immediately applied for a modification of his sentence aimed at his release and hoped that the judge responsible for the application of sentences would study it more quickly. "
I am surprised at such a long delay when everything was settled in three days
", told AFP his lawyer Me Philippe Bouchez El-Ghozi. Claude Guéant "
will not only spend the holidays in prison, but also his birthday (...) he saw it very, very badly
".
In detail, "
Claude Guéant paid 133,315.95 euros to put his debt to zero
", but also settled that of "
one of the co-convicts (who) had not paid his full share and it is of a solidarity debt therefore due 100% by each convicted person,
”he explained on Sunday.
According to him, this was done thanks to loans from relatives.
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Claude Guéant has been detained for a week at the Paris-La Santé penitentiary in application of the 2017 conviction, a first for a former Minister of the Interior. In the case of the cash bonuses of the Ministry of the Interior, the former right-hand man of Nicolas Sarkozy was sentenced on January 23, 2017 on appeal to two years' imprisonment, one of which was suspended on probation and a fine of 75,000 euros. . He was serving this sentence - which became final two years later after the rejection of his cassation appeal - under conditional release.
At the beginning of November, however, the Paris Court of Appeal revoked part of his suspension (3 months) and his parole (6 months), considering that Claude Guéant did not make the necessary payments to pay the fine and damages. and interest he had been inflicted on.
It is in execution of these decisions that Claude Guéant was placed in jail for nine months, Me Bouchez El-Ghozi had specified to AFP.
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