By RFIPubliée on 25-03-2019Modified on 25-03-2019 at 19:14

This is a legal setback for Nicolas Sarkozy. The Paris Court of Appeal rejected, Monday, March 25, the appeal of the former President of the Republic against the decision of the judges to return him in correctional in the case of "corruption" and "influence peddling" At the Court of Cassation. Nicolas Sarkozy is suspected of having tried to obtain confidential information from a magistrate on the sidelines of the Bettencourt affair. At the heart of the accusation, telephone tapping between Nicolas Sarkozy, who used the pseudonym "Paul Bismuth", and his lawyer.

In September 2013, Nicolas Sarkozy's unofficial phones and his lawyer, Thierry Herzog, were tapped. Justice suspects the former President of the Republic for illegally funding his 2007 presidential campaign with Libyan funds.

But on the occasion of this procedure, a case in the case breaks out. According to these plays, the former head of state would have tried to get Gilbert Azibert, then magistrate at the Court of Cassation, information covered by secrecy on the sidelines of the Bettencourt case, a case in which Nicolas Sarkozy benefited from a non-suit.

A possible appeal in the Court of Cassation

In return, the former President of the Republic had to intervene in favor of Gilbert Azibert to get a prestigious position in Monaco, which he finally did not. The judges of the investigating chamber have therefore rejected the appeal of the former head of state against his referral to the criminal court. They also refused to forward to the Constitutional Council a priority question of constitutionality raised by his defense.

But Nicolas Sarkozy still has the opportunity to attack these decisions before the Court of Cassation, which could again postpone the holding of a possible trial.

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