The "peas" still do not pass. The severity of Nicolas Sarkozy's conviction on appeal is yet another episode in the tumultuous relationship between the former head of state and the magistrates whose homogeneity of profiles he had denounced in 2007, "aligned like peas with the same color, the same size, the same lack of flavor".
Connoisseurs of this extravagant Azibert case - an "intention" of service not even translated into reality and established on the basis of listening to the conversations of a lawyer - expected a more lenient judgment on appeal than in the first instance; including the replacement of the prison by a suspended sentence. By going beyond the prosecution's requests, the judges wanted to recall their power as much as their independence.
The issue is not, however, a match between magistrates and politicians, the former being in principle good and infallible vigilantes, and the latter being abominable corrupt. In every trial...
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