France Nicolas Sarkozy, on trial for illegal financing of his electoral campaign, and Édouard Balladur, for corruption
Former French President Nicolas Sarkozy was found guilty today of corruption and influence peddling.
The judgment of the trial that brought him to the bench of those accused of corruption and influence peddling, for which the Prosecutor's Office asked for two years in firm prison and that will determine his political future, reports Efe.
The man who led France between 2007 and 2012 can definitely see his public career cut short.
The Public Ministry also requested another two years in jail exempt from compliance.
Sarkozy, 66, is accused of having maneuvered in 2014 to obtain confidential information from a senior magistrate in another open investigation against him in exchange for getting him a post in Monaco
.
The case was discovered by the investigators in the wiretaps intervened
between the former president and his lawyer, Thierry Herzog, in the framework of a third judicial investigation against him.
During the hearing, which took place last November and December, Sarkozy denied the accusations, while his lawyers insisted on trying to invalidate the wiretapping, in his opinion protected by the right to confidentiality between a client and his lawyer.
The validity of these tests, which the court will have to assess in its sentence, seems key to determining the meaning of its verdict, which will keep the French political class pending, especially on the right, still very attentive to the fate of its last representative in inhabiting the Elysee.
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