The conviction by the Paris Court of Appeal of Nicolas Sarkozy in the "Bismuth" case is exceptionally severe: three years in prison, including one year (to be executed under an electronic bracelet), and three years of deprivation of civil rights. The Advocate General Gilbert Azibert, sentenced to the same sentence, did not intervene with the magistrates of the Court of Cassation in the case of the diaries of the former President of the Republic, and Nicolas Sarkozy did not intervene with the Prince of Monaco to push the candidacy of this magistrate for a post on the Rock.
It is telephone conversations without follow-up that are sanctioned: this is legally possible because the "corruption pact" can be retained even if it is not followed by active behavior, but the seriousness of the sentence then appears difficult to understand. It clearly has an eliminatory character, from a political point of view, of a former president that some magistrates, especially those close to...
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