Headlines: Sarkozy condemned, the European press welcomes a "revolutionary" judgment
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Nicolas Sarkozy was sentenced Monday, March 1 to 3 years in prison for "corruption" and "influence peddling" by the Paris Criminal Court.
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The information is included in the whole of the international press, but above all it receives a lot of commentary in the European press.
With the image of Nicolas Sarkozy yesterday Monday in court.
"
Stunned by justice
", headlines the Swiss daily
Le Temps
, "
Condemned for corruption, the fall of Nicolas Sarkozy
", estimates for its part the
Tagesspiegel
in Germany while
El Pais
judges "
that justice is at work in France
”.
For the Spanish daily, even if the ex-president is going to appeal, “
this judgment has an exemplary effect, first of all because it is a strong response from the justice system in the face of repeated intimidation from Sarkozy, convinced that he is victim of a conspiracy
”.
And
El Pais
to question "
the intoxication of power and a system, that of the Fifth Republic which weakens the counter-powers and confers a quasi-monarchical aura on its president and thus facilitates behavior like that of Nicolas Sarkozy
".
"
This verdict will therefore not only shake the political class
, insists for his part the editorialist of the
Süddeustche Zeitung
,
it will also shake the elitism and absolutism which characterize the political apparatus and the balance of power in French society. .
A president in prison is revolutionary
”, underlines the German daily.
"
His conviction is unprecedented in France,
" notes the
Wall Street Journal,
which considers "
that this tarnishes the legacy of the former head of state who founded the conservative party, a party emphasizes the daily-anchored in the policy of law and order
”.
And the
Wall Street Journal
to list the trials still to come against Nicolas Sarkozy, "
in particular in the course of the month he will be judged for having violated the rules of financing for his electoral campaign in 2012
".
"
At the dawn of this new trial to come
", argues for his part the editorial writer of
Time
, the severe judgment pronounced yesterday is required "
as a warning
".
The time - he writes - “
has come to put an end, in France, to this abyss over the notion of exemplarity which divides judges and elected leaders.
A notion with which Nicolas Sarkozy, so quick to present himself as a victim, has flirted too much to be surprised today to pay the price
.
», Concludes the Swiss columnist.
In Burma, the army intensifies its repression thanks to Western technology
This is what the
New York Times
reveals
, which explains that the generals who staged the coup last month "are
using Israeli-made surveillance drones, European iPhone cracking devices and capable American software. to hack into computers and swallow their content
”.
An “
extremely sophisticated arsenal used to orchestrate repression today
” and which was acquired during the country's “
democratic
”
transition
.
The
New York Times,
which claims to have been able to consult "
hundreds of pages of the latest Burmese government budgets
", describes "
the junta's voracious appetite for the latest military-type surveillance technologies
".
“
Despite the ban on these exports, after the repression orchestrated against the Rohingyas in 2017
”, explains the daily “
many Western suppliers have continued their delivery
” with the only restrictive clause “
the ban on using their technology to violate human rights
”.
Calls on the rise for Saudi Crown Prince MBS to stand trial
Press freedom activists and numerous columnists are urging President Biden to keep his campaign promise.
The
Washington Post
thus recalls that Joe Biden had pledged "
to make the Saudi regime pay the price, notwithstanding the American strategic needs of the moment
".
Now that the United States has established that "
the ultimate responsibility for the murder of Khashoggi rests with the Crown Prince
", MBS must therefore "
be tried
", insists the columnist of the
Post
criticizing the possibility that under the Biden administration "
the despots could to be granted a pass for "a free murder
" ".
Winston Churchill painting soars to nearly $ 12 million
The info is included in all the major press titles, which discover the now listed work of the former emblematic British Prime Minister.
Painter in his spare time, Chuchill had immortalized the Koutoubia mosque in Marrakech during the Second World War.
The painting, sold yesterday by actress Angelina Jolie, soared to $ 11.6 million.
For the record, and the big one, Churchill had offered this painting to President Roosevelt after the Casablanca conference in 1943, reports the
Wall Street Journal,
"
in memory of this short interlude in the din of war
."
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