“I have ascended”: this is the scandal of corruption that Nicolas Sarkozy condemns

The French President Nicolas Sarkozy (2007-2012), which has been converted into the first ex-mandate in decades to be located in the bank of the accused, was held by the intention of sobriety of a judge, in one of the various cases of its complicated judicial situation.

‘I have ascended”, Sarkozy Promise in a telephone conversation with his lawyer, Thierry Herzog. Referred to by Gilbert Azibert, magistrate of the Supreme Court, who was in the Bettencourt denomination case, a scandal known as the Salpico, although terminated later. The offer was made to access a prestigious monastery in Monaco, although Azibert did not have time to occupy it.

Según acusaba la Fiscalía, Sarkozy, his lawyer and the judge hiccuped “a pact of corruption” in February 2014 to obtain benefits. Sarkozy buscaba recovers his broken agendas.

Conversations with his lawyer were made because the lines are intervening in another case, the forthcoming financing of its 2007 campaign with money from the Muammar Gaddafi regime.

In the year 2014, Sarkozy and Herzog use secret cellular telephones — registered with the alias of “Paul Bismuth” – to enable private conversations, it is believed that its communications are being intercepted. The ex-mandate and his defense counsel support the purchase of secret telephones in order to obtain illegal interceptions. The investigators, without embarrassment, suspect that he simply did not want to be discovered by the police.

The judges have determined that the conversations between Sarkozy and his lawyer appear to indicate that the investigators are investigating his communications on his official telephones.

Corruption and trafficking charges affect a maximum of 10 years and a fine of one million euros (1.2 million dollars).

Sarkozy, 66 years old, is the First President of France from the Restoration of the Fifth Republic (1958) to center physically on the bench of the accused. Antes de él, solo Jacques Chirac, his antecesor and political mentor, was judged and condemned by the failure of public funds cometida when he was called in Paris, but debated health problems no comparison before the court.

Sarkozy’s legal issues do not end here. This same month, Wednesday 17, will hold another trial in the “Bygmalion” case, relative to the guests of his 2012 presidential campaign, along with 13 others accused.

In addition, signing in the process of instructing the financing of his 2007 presidential campaign with a Libyan denomination and his name appears also in the investigations into an indemnity paid by the minister and empress Bernart Tapie regarding the collection of inquiries into the Elíseo contest helicopters to Kazakhstan and armaments in Pakistan.

His numerous legal problems obstruct his regression in politics. Lost as a candidate for the right to his former Prime Minister François Fillon in 2016.

However, while other French presidents, Sarkozy praised a huge popularity since announcing his withdrawal from politics in 2018. Hundreds of admirers in the libraries are here to make a copy of their last memoirs tormentas ”, which encloses the list of books sold during weekdays.

(With agency information)

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