Former minister Jérôme Cahuzac, sentenced in 2018 for tax evasion to four years in prison, two of which are closed, believes he has "
paid his debt
" and said Thursday, February 17, he hopes to avoid "
a banishment in perpetuity
" from society, in a first media coverage for several years.
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"
I was banished inside my country for a few years
," he said on LCI, indicating that he "
wishes it wasn't a ban for life
," after having "
definitely served his penalty since mid-December 2020
”.
“Republican sacrilege”
Former Budget Minister under François Hollande, Jérôme Cahuzac was sentenced for tax evasion in 2018 to four years in prison, two of which were suspended, before benefiting from an adjustment of his sentence in the form of an electronic bracelet, thus escaping prison .
The former Chairman of the Finance Committee at the National Assembly, considers himself today as "
a citizen like any other who has paid his debt
", after "
a very long road
" during which he has seen "
the hostility
" and "
hate, sometimes
" in "
people's eyes
".
Jérôme Cahuzac, 69, called it "
republican sacrilege
" to have "
lied to the national representation
", about his assertions in the hemicycle that he had no undeclared account in Switzerland, the day after revelations from Mediapart in December 2012. But he claimed "
not to have lied to François Hollande
": "
for that he would have had to ask me the question
", he said, affirming that "
never, at any moment
" the former head of state had asked him "
do you have an account in Switzerland or not?
".
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As during his trial, Jérôme Cahuzac said he decided to commit suicide, before being saved by the unexpected visit of his son.
To explain his media silence for several years, the man who has since worked as a doctor at the hospital in Bonifacio (Corse-du-Sud) to "
repair the harm I have done
", assured "
that a convict is serving his struggles and is silent
”.
