former President Nicolas Sarkozy sentenced to three years in prison on appeal, including one year

With a tense face, Nicolas Sarkozy leaves his audience without saying a word, Wednesday, May 17. He has just been sentenced to three years in prison, including one year for active corruption and influence peddling and finds himself stripped of his civil rights for three years. “This decision seems to me astounding, it is open to criticism, questionable, in law, in fact. We will not let go of this fight, a fair fight, in the face of a particularly iniquitous and unfair decision”, said his lawyer, Jacqueline Laffont. A firm year on appeal is a first for a former president. But Nicolas Sarkozy will not go to prison, he will wear an electronic bracelet.

Other business to come for Nicolas Sarkozy

The former head of state is appealing in cassation, which suspends the sentence. Thierry Herzog, his former lawyer and Gilbert Azibert, Monegasque judge accused of passive corruption received the same sentence, for corruption pact. The former president has two other appointments with justice. In the fall, the appeal trial of the Bygmalion case. At first instance, he was sentenced to one year in prison. And the file on Libyan financing for the 2007 campaign, for which the national financial prosecutor’s office has just asked for its referral to the criminal court.