The former President of the Republic was sentenced to a sentence of three years in prison, a firm year for corruption and influence traffic.
Nicolas Sarkozy, who had been sentenced to the same sentence at first instance will also be deprived of his civil rights for a period of three years. He decided to appeal to the cassation.
The decision fell this Wednesday, May 17 and this is an unprecedented sanction for a former president. The Paris Court of Appeal said that the sentence would take place at home, under electronic bracelet.
Nicolas Sarkozy is also deprived of his civil rights for a period of three years, which makes him ineligible. His lawyers immediately announced that he was going to appeal to the cassation.
The ex-president’s two co-of-the-president, his historic lawyer Thierry Herzog and the former high magistrate Gilbert Azibert, were sentenced to the same penalty.
Nicolas Sarkozy was sentenced as part of the so -called “listening” case, linked to the financing of his victorious campaign for the 2007 presidential election and the case of suspicions of Libyan funding for the 2007 presidential campaign is indirectly at the origin of the case of “listening”, also called “bismuth”.
