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Several convictions emerged on Friday, January 21, from the so-called Élysée polls affair, under the presidency of Nicolas Sarkozy, for Claude Guéant and four ex-relatives of the former president. The criminal court wondered about favoritism in the allocation of advice and opinion polls. He decided.
They were part of the close guard of the former President of the Republic. Claude Guéant and Patrick Buisson were sentenced on Friday January 21 for favoritism in the Élysée polls affair. If Nicolas Sarkozy, protected by his presidential immunity, was not worried, the two key men of his presidency them scoop of one year in prison, including eight months for the former secretary general of the Elysée, and two years in prison suspended for the ex-close adviser to Nicolas Sarkozy.
Two other of his former advisers were also sentenced: six months suspended and 70,000 euros fine for Emmanuelle Mignon and Pierre Giacometti. But for justice, the millions of euros in surveys commissioned by the Élysée between 2007 and 2012, without a call for tenders, are indeed the subject of favoritism and embezzlement of public funds. The court asked that Claude Guéant, already imprisoned in the cash bonus case when he was chief of staff, serve his sentence in prison. From his cell in the prison of La Santé, Claude Guéant immediately appealed the judgment. Pending his second trial and possible provisional release, the former first cop in France remains incarcerated.