Nicolas Sarkozy is on trial in the "Paul Bismuth" case for corruption and influence peddling.
Invited on Europe 1 Monday, the journalist of the "World", Gérard Davet, returned to the various cases which tarnish the reputation of the ex-president but also of his close guard, also implicated in these files.
"These people who were supposed to protect him, like sort of circuit breakers, become his legal bullets," he summarizes at the microphone of Patrick Cohen.
INTERVIEW
Nicolas Sarkozy was to appear from Monday in Paris in the "eavesdropping" case, alongside his lawyer Thierry Herzog and the former high magistrate Gilbert Azibert (the trial was finally suspended until Thursday).
And as explained by the journalist of
Le Monde
Gérard Davet, Monday on Europe 1, other cases target Nicolas Sarkozy.
They implicate other political figures, whom Gérard Davet, guest Monday of Patrick Cohen, describes as "kinds of circuit breakers which become his legal bullets".
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"Around Nicolas Sarkozy, there is a phenomenon of addiction", assures the journalist.
"The people around him, Claude Guéant, Thierry Gaubert (a former collaborator of the former president), Patrick Balkany and others, want to please the president, the leader of the pack," he continues.
"Sometimes they go too far and sometimes there is a kind of impunity granted to them by Nicolas Sarkozy", emphasizes Gérard Davet.
Finally, "these people who were supposed to protect him, like sort of circuit breakers, become his legal bullets", he summarizes.
"It will
ultimately turn
against the boss Nicolas Sarkozy"
Nicolas Sarkozy has never been convicted and is appearing in court for the first time on Monday.
He is also due to appear next March on the Bygmalion affair.
These "circuit breakers" will therefore play an important role in this procedure in the future.
"Each time, these people will take responsibility for their wrongs and their problems in court, or else justice will succeed in confusing them and this will
ultimately turn
against the boss Nicolas Sarkozy", predicts Gérard Davet.
His interview can be found in full here or in the sound below: