Sentenced to one year in prison at first instance, the former President of the Republic had appealed, promising to go “to the end”.
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Imminent return to court for Nicolas Sarkozy. The ex-president’s appeal trial in the so-called “Bygmalion” case over the illegal financing of his lost 2012 presidential campaign will begin on November 8, 2023 and end a month later, we learned on Wednesday 5 October with the Paris Court of Appeal. The trial will take place three half-days a week, Wednesday and Thursday afternoons and Friday mornings.
In September 2021, at first instance, Nicolas Sarkozy was sentenced to one year in prison. the Paris Criminal Court had declared the former head of state guilty of illegal financing of his 2012 campaign. The court had requested that the sentence be directly adjusted, at home, under electronic surveillance. Thirteen other people will also be tried on appeal.
Unlike his 13 co-defendants (former campaign and UMP executives as well as the company Bygmalion), Nicolas Sarkozy was not implicated for the double billing system devised to hide the explosion in authorized campaign spending. . He was tried solely for “illegal campaign financing”.