at his trial, Nicolas Sarkozy crushes Justice (again)

“You will never, ever find, not a euro, but not a Libyan cent, in my campaign,” said Nicolas Sarkozy on Thursday January 9, 2025 at the bar of the Paris court, for his first speech at his trial.

“Corruption money is largely absent from this trial”

“I will answer all the questions as I have always done, I have always assumed my responsibilities and I intend to do so during these four months” of hearing, added the former head of state, judged like 11 other people for suspicions of financing of his 2007 campaign by Muammar Gaddafi’s Libya.

The first to speak for this introductory statement, he began by mentioning, “ 10 years of slander48 hours of police custody, 60 hours of interrogation, 10 years of investigation.”

“What did we find?” “, he protested several times. “Nothing about me. »

“There is reason to be angry,” he added.

Money from corruption is largely absent from this trial and for a simple reason: there is no money from corruption, because there was no corruption of the candidate.

10 years in prison incurred

Tried until April 10 for corruption, concealment of embezzlement of public funds, illegal campaign financing and criminal conspiracy, Nicolas Sarkozy faces 10 years in prison and a fine of 375,000 eurosas well as deprivation of civil rights (therefore ineligibility) of up to five years.

“I have no score to settle and certainly not with the institution of which I know that part of it violently fought me when I was president. Naive or enthusiastic, I trust,” also said the man who has regularly implicated magistrates by name in the multiple legal proceedings targeting him.

With AFP

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