The former French president is accused of trying to bribe a high-ranking magistrate to his own advantage in the Bettencourt case, and second of cheating on the promises he could make to the magistrate to give him a prestigious position to give in Monaco. .
Former French President Nicolas Sarkozy sits on the bench starting this Monday to try and overturn the appeal the sentence of three years imprisonment, one of them firm. He is accused of allegedly tried to corrupt former magistrate Gilbert Azibert in 2013 and 2014 for his own benefit in the Bettencourt case, as well as for influence for the promises he could make to Azibert to give him a prestigious position in Monaco.
In this trial before the Court of Appeal of Paris, which is expected to last until Friday the 16th, Sarkozy, who was his lawyer at the time of the events, also appears, Thierry Herzog, and the former magistrate Gilbert Azibert. Herzog was also imposed the ban on practicing the profession of lawyer for five years.
The three were sentenced at first instance in March 2021 to the same sentence of three years in prison one of them obliged under a regime of deprivation of liberty with detention in their respective homes controlled by an electronic bracelet.
Sarkozy, who retired from active politics at age 67, is the first former French president to be sentenced to a final prison term, that is, it implies an effective deprivation of liberty.
According to the allegation, after leaving the Élysée, the person who was president of France between 2007 and 2012 tried to to obtain confidential information about an instruction in which he appears to be involved in abuse of weakness by the billionaire Liliane Bettencourt, then in her nineties and heiress to the L’Oréal empire. To do this, he entered into an agreement with Gilbert Azibert, who was a prosecutor on the Supreme Court, with the aim of weighing in on the judicial decisions that would be made in that case.
In exchange for this intervention, Sarkozy promised to use his influence so that Azibert could acquire a prestigious position in Monaco.
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Source: EITB
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