Former president Nicolas Sarkozy has been sentenced to 5 years in prison (not just an electronic ankle bracelet, which he’s been wearing for some time now) for his part in […]
Former president Nicolas Sarkozy has been sentenced to 5 years in prison (not just an electronic ankle bracelet, which he’s been wearing for some time now) for his part in the illegal financing of his presidential campaign with the aid of the Franco-Lebanese businessman Ziad Takieddine, who avoided prison by dying the day before yesterday. Also sentenced were former ministers Claude Guéant, Brice Hortefeux, and Eric Woerth. [CORRECTION: The charges against Woerth were dismissed.] Sarkozy continues to proclaim his innocence, with characteristic defiance.
If the courts absolutely insist that I sleep in prison, then sleep in prison I shall. … This injustice is a scandal. I’ll probably have to appear in handcuffs before the court of appeals. The people who hate me so much think they will be humiliating me, but what they have humiliated today is France, it’s the image of France.
