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The case of the Elysée polls is brought to the criminal court on Monday, October 18. Relatives of Nicolas Sarkozy, including Claude Guéant and Patrick Buisson, have been on trial since the start of the day.
The former secretary general of the Élysée Palace, Claude Guéant, the former shadow adviser to Nicolas Sarkozy, Patrick Buisson, and Emmanuelle Mignon, the former director of the cabinet, have been on trial for embezzlement or concealment since Monday, October 18. of public funds. The judges suspect them of not having respected the rules of tenders, in the order of a hundred polls between 2007 and 2012. Protected by his presidential immunity, the former head of state is not prosecuted.
In the trial that opens, his name will however often be mentioned. “Nicolas Sarkozy will be omnipresent in this trial, and in reality we will only talk about the polls of the Elysee [et] his way of exercising power during his term of office “, says Maître Jérôme Karsenti, Anticor lawyer. Several million euros of public money are at stake. They were spent on opinion studies whose object questions, such as the image of the Bruni-Sarkozy couple in public opinion, or the popularity rating of Dominique Strauss-Kahn, then possible opponent of Nicolas Sarkozy for the 2012 presidential election.