Nicolas Sarkozy was definitively sentenced by the Court of Cassation to one year in prison under electronic bracelet in the listening case.
The ex-president is found guilty of corruption and influence traffic, an unprecedented sentence for a former head of state.
This sanction, to which are added three years of ineligibility, is now applicable, and Sarkozy will be summoned to determine the methods of its electronic bracelet.
His lawyer has announced that he is seizing the European Court of Human Rights, without preventing the execution of the sentence.
Sarkozy, with his lawyer Thierry Herzog, was found guilty of having tried to influence a judicial appeal in 2014, in exchange for an honorary position in Monaco, in the Bettencourt case. Herzog and the magistrate Gilbert Azibert, also condemned, saw their sorrows confirmed.
This decision comes before Sarkozy’s appearance at the Paris court in January 2025 for suspicions of Libyan funding from his 2007 presidential campaign. He must also face another conviction for the Bygmalion affair.
