Following his recent conviction in the listening case, Nicolas Sarkozy made the decision to suspend his public activities as former president.
The former French-president, now carrying an electronic bracelet after being sentenced to one year in prison, said that he would break any media intervention. “I will continue to exercise my professional life as I have received the right,” said the man who is a profession by profession, in a declaration posted on X (formerly Twitter).
This decision comes as he purges his sentence under judicial supervision. Under this conviction, he is now forced to a supervised residence, with strict exit schedules, limited from 8:00 a.m. to 8:00 p.m., or until 9:30 p.m. during the hearing days in another legal case, that of Libyan suspicions of his 2007 campaign. The former head of state has renounced certain sentence developments, saying that he does not want to request privileges.
Sarkozy did not fail to underline his “feeling of injustice” in the face of this situation, continuing to proclaim his conviction of having been the victim of a miscarriage of justice. He announced his intention to seize the European Court of Human Rights to assert his arguments, stressing that he was expecting a decision on this case by the end of the month.
