The office of the public prosecutor has asked for seven years in prison and 300,000 euros from a fine against former President Nicolas Sarkozy for the “Corruptiepact” signed with the late Libyan dictator Muamar Gaddafi, in connection with the alleged irregular financing of the 2007 electoral campaign.
The office of the French public prosecutor asked this Thursday Seven years in prison Firm against the former French president Nicolas Sarkozy through the financing For the Libyan regime of Muamar Gaddafi from the Election campaign That led him to Elysium in 2007.
Sarkozy’s is the most difficult fine against the twelve defendants in this trial, who started on January 6 and in which the public prosecutor believes that his fault has been proven.
The office of the public prosecutor has asked prison sentences against the three former ministers sitting with him on the bench: Claude Guéant (six years), Brice Hortefux (three) and Éric Woerth (one).
Sarkozy He did not make any statements to the media at his exit, but very shortly after he has announced an explanation in which he complained about “the excessive” of the petition, before he repeats his innocence and ensures that it is “Victim of injustice”.
“I will continue to fight and believe step by step in the wisdom of the court,” added the former president, against which he, together with the prison sentence, asked a fine of 300,000 euros.
One of his lawyers, Jean-Michel Darrois, has completely rejected the request of public prosecutors, who “has nothing to do with what the hearings have shown.”
“No financing track was found,” Darrois was on a short statement to the press that followed the process.
Another of Sarkozy’s lawyers, Christophe Ingrin, believes that the office of the public prosecutor has “excessive and without a basis” in the light of what the hearings of recent months have proven.
In his conclusions that are presented between Tuesday and Wednesday, the office of the public prosecutor Sarkozy (president between 2007 and 2012) considered “, ordered and ordered” what he has defined as a “corruption pact” with the Gaddafi -dictatorial regime.
In that purpose it has placed the successive visits that Guéant, Sarkozy and Hortefeux made to Tripoli between October and December 2005.
According to the accusation, Hortefeux (subsequently Minister of the Interior at Sarkozy) supplied Gaddafi’s brother -in -in -law, Abdalá Senoussi, the account number in which the Libians made the payments for the 2007 campaign in 2006.
Senoussi was also head of the Libyan secret services and is sentenced to life imprisonment in France, although in Rebellie, as responsible for the attack on a French passenger plane in Africa that caused 170 deaths in 1989.
Source: EITB
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