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This is the first time that a former president has been called to testify in a trial on facts that took place while he was in office. Nicolas Sarkozy appeared on Tuesday as part of the Elysee polls trial, but he refused to answer, as journalist Nathalie Perez explains from the Paris courthouse.
Summoned as part of the Elysee polls trial, Tuesday, November 2, Nicolas Sarkozy spoke a lot in the introduction before falling into silence. He went to court believing that he had “no right to answer questions” and invoking his presidential immunity, “valid for life”, explains the journalist of France Télévisions on site, Nathalie Perez. “These are the rules of the Constitution and I have too much respect for the rules not to apply them”, he added before saying nothing more.
For nearly an hour, the president of the court asked about forty questions to the former head of state, without himget Answer. Before leaving the room, Nicolas Sarkozy addressed the magistrates one last time: “It was not useful to force me to come, it is a great injustice. If I did not answer your questions it was not my choice, but my duty “, concluded the former president of the Republic.