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The former head of state was definitively sentenced, in mid-December, to three years in prison, two of which were suspended by the Court of Cassation in the wiretapping case. Nicolas Sarkozy will have to serve a year of “home detention under electronic surveillance” but the bracelet has not yet been fitted.
For the end of year celebrations, Nicolas Sarkozy was in the Seychelles with his wife, Carla Bruni, and their daughter, Giulia Sarkozy. The 13-year-old teenager notably shared videos of the trip on the social network TikTok – now deleted – where we see the former president on the phone, as specified Paris-Match.
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A notable escapade when the former President of the Republic had been definitively sentenced by the Court of Cassation to one year of “home detention under electronic surveillance”. More precisely, the judgment rendered on December 18, 2024 in the context of the wiretapping affair sentenced Nicolas Sarkozy to two years of suspended prison time and one year, therefore, under an electronic bracelet.
A non-immediate procedure
The presence of the former president on the Indian Ocean archipelago can be explained by the non-immediate nature of the installation of the bracelet after the verdict was pronounced. As explained 20 Minutesthe general prosecutor’s office has one month to refer the matter to the sentence enforcement judge. Then, the said judge has four months after the verdict is pronounced to define the terms of the sentence.
What about this procedure? It “follows its course”, the Paris prosecutor’s office told our colleagues. But in a still plausible scenario, the former head of state could well escape the electronic bracelet thanks to his age. Indeed, Nicolas Sarkozy celebrates his 70th birthday on January 28, and will be able, according to article 729 of the Code of Criminal Procedure, to request conditional release.
In any case, the former president will have to appear in another case from January 6, around suspicions of Libyan financing of his 2007 presidential campaign.
