“I dispute my guilt in the strongest possible terms. I contest the sentence in the strongest possible terms.”
On the first day of the appeal trial in the so-called "Bismuth wiretapping" affair, Nicolas Sarkozy opted for a pugnacious tone.
His co-defendants are more sober.
“I contest my guilt and from there, my sentence”
, declares the former magistrate Gibert Azibert, short of breath.
“I have devoted my life to my profession as a lawyer, which I have practiced for forty-three years
, launches, moved, Thierry Herzog.
I would like your court to be convinced that it will be able to restore my honor and agree to save my dress.
At first instance, the three men were sentenced to three years in prison, two of which were suspended, a sentence accompanied, for Me Herzog, 67, by a terrible ban on practicing for five years.
Pugnacious, therefore, without a strict plan supporting his point, the former head of state seized the microphone for a long pleading
pro domo
, in front of a room in the packed Paris courthouse.
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