Former Interior Minister Claude Guéant was "urgently hospitalized" on Monday to "undergo surgery", said his lawyer.

A hospitalization which makes even more likely the dismissal of his trial for “fraud” of campaign expenses which is to open on Tuesday in Nanterre.

The 77-year-old man, who was already suffering from “heart problems” contracted, during his two-month incarceration at the Health prison in Paris, “several additional severe pathologies”, indicated Me Philippe Bouchez El Ghozi.

Claude Guéant had been imprisoned from December 13 to February 9, a first for a former tenant from Beauvau, and has since been granted parole.

When he leaves hospital, Claude Guéant "will have to be at rest at home for ten days, and hopes to be able to regain his full capacity in about a month", added his counsel, who will ask Nanterre on Tuesday morning for the dismissal of his trial, scheduled for two days.

On trial for “fraud”

The former secretary general of the Elysée under Nicolas Sarkozy was to be tried there for "fraud" for the reimbursement of the expenses of his legislative campaign of 2012, after the distribution of a leaflet in his favor by the mayor UMP (now LR since ) from Boulogne-Billancourt (Hauts-de-Seine).

An offense punishable by five years in prison and a fine of 375,000 euros.

The one who was also prefect and director general of the national police also had to appear before the criminal court for "illegal financing" of the campaign.

Justice

Case of “cash bonuses”: Incarcerated for two months, Claude Guéant will be released this Wednesday

Justice

Case of "cash bonuses": Claude Guéant released from prison after two months of incarceration

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