France: l'ancien président Sarkozy convoqué lundi en vue de son incarcération
Former French President Nicolas Sarkozy will learn on Monday where and when he will be imprisoned after his historic five-year prison sentence in the Libyan financing scandal surrounding his successful 2007 presidential campaign.
Before Mr. Sarkozy, now 70 years old, no former head of state of a European Union country had been imprisoned.
On September 25, the Paris Criminal Court found him guilty of criminal conspiracy for having allowed his closest collaborators to approach Muammar Gaddafi's Libya with a view to illegally financing his 2007 campaign.
Nicolas Sarkozy, who has consistently maintained his innocence and appealed the verdict, will nevertheless be imprisoned due to the deferred arrest warrant with provisional execution that the court issued against him.
The court justified this measure by the "exceptional gravity of the acts" committed by a political leader then aspiring to the highest office of the French Republic.
Unlike the two other people sentenced to detention in this trial, the intermediary Alexandre Djourhi and the banker Wahib Nacer, Nicolas Sarkozy, who has always responded to court summonses, was given time before his incarceration to make professional arrangements.
He has an appointment on Monday at the Paris judicial court, in the offices of the national financial prosecutor's office, which will inform him of the date and place of his incarceration, which should theoretically take place within four months of this summons.
However, he will be imprisoned "relatively soon," a judicial source told AFP at the time of the judgment.
To ensure his safety, the former president could be imprisoned either in a "vulnerable area" (QPV) or in solitary confinement. In the Paris region, only two remand centers have a "vulnerable area": La Santé in Paris and Fleury-Mérogis, in the suburbs.
Upon his entry into prison, the former head of state's defense team will be able to file a request for release before the Paris Court of Appeal, which will have a maximum of two months to rule. If the request is rejected, Mr. Sarkozy will be able to file new requests.
The seven defendants convicted in the Libyan financing trial have appealed, as has the National Financial Prosecutor's Office. The latter has also appealed the acquittals handed down by the Paris court.
A new trial will therefore be held in the coming months before the Paris Court of Appeal.
The conviction of the former champion of the French right had provoked the ire of his supporters and prompted widespread criticism and even threats against the president who delivered the verdict. Two investigations have been opened into "threatening messages" targeting the magistrate.
Nicolas Sarkozy, who is involved in several other cases, wore an electronic bracelet between February and May due to his final sentence of one year in prison for corruption and influence peddling in another case known as the "wiretapping" or "Bismuth" case. He has filed an appeal with the European Court of Human Rights (ECHR).
He will also learn on November 26 the decision of the Court of Cassation, the highest court in the French judicial system, on his appeal in the Bygmalion case, which is currently suspending the sentence handed down against him in these proceedings.
This case concerns the financing of his 2012 presidential campaign, which he lost to the socialist François Hollande, and for which he was sentenced on appeal to one year in prison, six months of which were firm.
In this case, Nicolas Sarkozy was sentenced on February 14, 2024, by the Paris Court of Appeal to one year in prison, six months of which were suspended. The court ordered the provision of a temporary sentence (electronic tag, day parole, etc.).
If dismissed, this illegal financing of his 2012 presidential campaign would become his second permanent criminal conviction on his record.
Commentaires (16)
Inchaala justice passera pour tout le mal qu’il a fait au peuple sénégalais.
L'affaire remonte en 2007.
Sarkozy a quitté le pouvoir en 2012.
La justice a pris son temps pour enquêter.
Sarkozy était libre durant toute la procédure.
Au Sénégal, on te coffre dés le départ pour aller chercher ce que tu as fait ou non.
Il est pire que Sarkozy pour la société Senegalaise.
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