He arrived all smiles, giving his lawyer a “check” with his fist before making his way into the crowded room of the Paris criminal court.
Sitting in the front row of the defendants' dock, this Wednesday, February 14, Nicolas Sarkozy then leaves nothing to show, very attentive to the statement of the deliberations rendered on appeal in the Bygmalion affair.
For the sake of efficiency, the president chose to spare the 244 pages of her judgment to go directly to the essential: the question of guilt and penalties.
Ten people, including the former tenant of the Élysée, were retried last November in this case relating to a system of false invoices supposed to camouflage the explosion of expenses for the – lost – re-election campaign of 2012: nearly 43 million euros for an authorized maximum of 22.5 million.
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