Nicolas Sarkozy facing "drifting justice"

What is left for politicians? One worries about the extent of their authority without seeing that it is inexorably atrophy. What should worry the French is not the power of those who govern us but their weakness. Checks and balances devour all power. Media surveillance day and night, administrative principalities in ambush, justice in reinforcement: Big Brother is watching you! A former President of the Republic is therefore sentenced to three years in prison (two of which are suspended) for having conversed on the telephone, under a false identity, with his lawyer.

The conversation is unclear, the consequence zero, but they talked to each other. Worse still, Nicolas Sarkozy would have thought of using his influence for an appointment he did not solicit for someone he did not know, with the hope of having in return information on a file for which he has since been cleared. Guilty of unrealized and uncharacterized intent: even the most important moral theology...

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