We knew the text, unveiled for ages;
here is the soundtrack on which the proceedings in the so-called “Bismuth wiretapping” case are based.
For the first time, the voices of the three defendants, Nicolas Sarkozy, Thierry Herzog and Gilbert Azibert, recorded by the police, resound in a courtroom.
The surveillance of the Bismuth line, opened by the former head of state and his lawyer to protect themselves from interceptions, legal or not, resulted in the recording of around 150 conversations.
The prosecution retained excerpts from around twenty discussions, i.e. a big hour of words - but a drop of water compared to the verbal ocean - to establish its theory: wishing to see the outcome of an appeal in cassation brought for recover his presidential diaries, seized in the Bettencourt affair, Mr. Sarkozy would have promised Mr. Azibert, magistrate at the Court of Cassation, a post at the Monegasque Council of State in exchange for information or even interventions with…
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