Sarkozy is found guilty, the former French president may be sentenced to house arrest

2024-02-14 16:08:56Kosova&Bota SHKRUAR NGA REDAKSIA VOX
Sarkozy is found guilty, the former French president may be sentenced to house
Nicolas Sarkozy

Former French President Nicolas Sarkozy was found guilty on Wednesday in an appeal before a Paris court of illegal campaign financing that resulted in an unsuccessful presidential bid in 2012, upholding a lower court's ruling. low.

He was sentenced to one year in prison in the first degree procedure in 2021, while half of the sentence was suspended and he could serve the other half without going to prison, under house arrest with monitoring through an electronic bracelet.

Nicolas Sarkozy, who was president of France for one term from 2007 to 2012, but after his presidential term ended, remained an influential political figure in conservative French circles and is on friendly terms with the current French president, Emmanuel Macron, despite a series of trials and investigations related to various legal issues related to the financing of the election campaign.

He has always denied accusations that his Republican party, then known as the UMP, collaborated with the public relations agency Bigmalion to hide the true sums of a presidential campaign marked by the spending of money unprecedented in French political life. During the hearing, Sarkozy denied personal guilt but blamed several members of his election team.

I have not chosen any supplier, I have not signed any offer, not a single invoice," said Sarkozy in court. In France, there are strict measures that limit the expenses for the election campaign.


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