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Elysée polls case: one firm year required against Claude Guéant

2021-12-03T16:39:28.758Z


The prosecution demanded, on the rise, a year in prison against the former secretary general of Nicolas Sarkozy after the addition of new


The National Financial Prosecutor's Office (PNF) revised upwards its requisitions on Friday against the former secretary general of the presidency Claude Guéant in the case of the Elysee polls, asking for one year of imprisonment and 10,000 euros of fine.

More than three weeks after the end of the trial of five former advisers and collaborators of Nicolas Sarkozy, the Paris criminal court reopened the proceedings after the communication, by the PNF, of new documents concerning Claude Guéant.

On November 10, the public prosecutor requested one year in prison, including six months, as well as a fine of 10,000 euros, against the 76-year-old defendant for favoritism and embezzlement of public funds through negligence. On Friday, the 32nd correctional chamber examined during a short hearing two judgments of the Paris Court of Appeal, delivered on November 9, as well as an investigation report, of which the court was not aware during the trial.

These documents relate to the modalities of application of a previous conviction of the ex-grand clerk of the State.

In the case of the cash bonuses of the Ministry of the Interior, Claude Guéant was imposed in January 2017 on appeal two years of imprisonment, including one year suspended probation, as well as a 75,000 euros fine, for complicity in embezzlement of public funds and concealment.

He was also ordered to pay, jointly and severally with four other defendants, 210,000 euros in damages to the State.

Claude Guéant deadbeat?

On November 9, the sentencing chamber of the court of appeal revoked part of Claude Guéant's suspension - three months - and part of his conditional release - six months - because it considered that he did not proceed. not to the necessary installments.

"Mr. Guéant does not respect the court decisions which concern him" and "he does everything possible not to have to execute them", launched the financial prosecutor. Denouncing a "speech of victimization" on the part of the accused, which "borders on contempt" for these two recent court decisions, he described his behavior as "unworthy of a former director general of the national police, of a former Minister of the Interior, a former secretary general of the Élysée ”.

"I show no contempt for court decisions," protested Claude Guéant at the helm. “I didn't pay for a simple reason: I can't do more! », He got carried away. Earlier, he assured: "I have done everything I can and I am doing everything I can to pay off my debt". His lawyer Me Philippe Bouchez El-Ghozi denounced a "misappropriation" on the part of the PNF, which aggravates the sentence by evoking, "in hollow", an "alleged fraudulent organization of insolvency" which is "irrelevant and out of debate" .

From October 18 to November 10, five former members of the inner circle of the former head of state, including former advisers Patrick Buisson and Pierre Giacometti, appeared on suspicion of favoritism or embezzlement of public funds on million euros spent on political advice and polls for the presidency between 2007 and 2012.

The rendering of the decision remains set for January 21.

Source: leparis

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