“Hello Terry?
" " Yes.
Nicholas, how are you?
Nicolas is Nicolas Sarkozy.
Thierry is Thierry Herzog, his friend and lawyer.
The two men are sitting side by side on the bench of the defendants of the Paris Court of Appeal when their voices echo in the room on this Tuesday afternoon.
For the first time, the famous telephone tapping between the former President of the Republic and his council over the dedicated “Paul Bismuth” lines is being broadcast in a judicial precinct.
In all, 24 conversation excerpts, at the heart of the suspicions of corruption and influence peddling which earned them each a one-year prison sentence last year.
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