time for deliberation for Claude Guéant

More than ten years after the start of the case, the court must decide, Friday January 21 at 2 p.m., on the fate of five former relatives of Nicolas Sarkozy, including the former secretary general of the Élysée, Claude Guéant, and Emmanuelle Mignon, ex-chief of staff at the material time. They are being tried for negligent favoritism and embezzlement of public funds.

Between 2007 and 2012, they would have ordered surveys for millions of euros from the company of Patrick Buisson, a close adviser to Nicolas Sarkozy, then president. For the National Financial Prosecutor’s Office, the disputed expenses were the subject of favoritism, because they were allocated without advertising or call for tenders. At the end of 2021, the national financial prosecutor’s office had requested one year in prison and a fine of €10,000 against Claude Guéant. Already imprisoned since December 13, 2021 in another case, his extraction was requested for deliberation.