Sarkozy is France’s first post-war president to have been sentenced to serve time. Read more at straitstimes.com.
PARIS - A French appeals court on Wednesday upheld a prison sentence of three years, including two suspended, against former president Nicolas Sarkozy forThe court ruled he should serve one year in detention at home with an electronic bracelet and banned him from public office for three years.
In March 2021, a court found he and his former lawyer, Thierry Herzog, had formed a “corruption pact” with judge Gilbert Azibert to obtain and share information about a legal investigation.The trial came after investigators looking into another case of alleged illegal campaign financing wiretapped Sarkozy’s two official phone lines, and discovered that he also had a third unofficial one.
It said his conversations with Herzog, played in court for the first time, showed there had indeed been a “corruption case” in which Sarkozy and Herzog sought the judge’s assistance in an ongoing case, in exchange for helping him to obtain an honorary appointment he wanted. Sarkozy will be retried on appeal from November 2023 in the so-called Bygmalion case, which saw him sentenced to one year in prison in a lower court.
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