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Former President of the Republic Nicolas Sarkozy, sentenced on Monday to three years in prison for corruption and influence peddling, roars in an interview in
Le Figaro
;
"I can't accept being convicted of something I haven't done
.
"
"This is a case of unprecedented corruption: there is not a penny at stake;
no one has gained any advantage, no victims
, no public order problem. I am convicted of the pseudo intention of committing a crime that would be proven by bits of conversations telephone calls taken out of context. The verdict does not provide evidence but a 'bundle of evidence'. I affirm that to convict in the rule of law, evidence is needed. And evidence in this case is not available. "
Blunt and direct to the heart of the sentence
that declared him guilty "based on a series of serious, concrete and concordant indications."
Sarkozy confirms that he has appealed the sentence and is willing to take "this fight" to the European Court of Human Rights: "It will be a suffering for me to
have my own country convicted
but I am willing since it will be the price of democracy "
The former French head of state says that he learned the sentence after the evening with his family, "watching the series
The killing.
Angry? No. It has long passed me," he says at the beginning of the interview with the conservative newspaper.
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