Former Interior Minister Claude Guéant has been granted conditional release after two months in prison.
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He left quietly. Former Interior Minister Claude Guéant left the Health prison on Wednesday, February 9, after two months of incarceration, confirmed his lawyer, Philippe Bouchez El Ghozi. The former tenant of Place Beauvau left the Parisian prison shortly after 8:30 a.m. in a car with tinted windows.
Claude Guéant, 77, was detained on December 13 for failing to pay the fine and damages he was ordered to pay in the cash bonus case on time. of the Ministry of the Interior. He had benefited Monday from a measure of conditional release, within the framework of an adjustment of his sentence which he claimed.
In support of his request for adjustment of sentence, his lawyer argued that his client had “fully paid” his debt to the public treasury via loans granted by his relatives. Moreover, in prison, his “health status [ne pouvait] than to deteriorate, with regard to the triple pathology” from which he suffers, according to Philippe Bouchez El Ghozi.
Claude Guéant was sentenced on January 21 in his absence in another case, that of the Elysée polls. He was sentenced to one year’s imprisonment, including eight months, for favoritism, with a warrant of deferred committal. But he appealed, which suspends the application of this sanction until a second trial.