The former President of the Republic appealed to the Court of Cassation in the wiretapping case for which he was sentenced to one year in prison under an electronic bracelet for corruption and influence peddling.
Published on 18/12/2024 14:42
Reading time: 1min
“It’s historic”reacts, Wednesday December 18, on franceinfo Mediapart journalist Fabrice Arfi, while the Court of Cassation rejects Nicolas Sarkozy’s appeal in the wiretapping affair, making definitive his sentence to one year in prison under an electronic bracelet for corruption and influence peddling. “For the first time, a President of the Republic is convicted of a corruption offense”recalls Fabrice Arfi.
“It is all the more historic as the sentence means that it is now definitive, he will have to endure confinement at home with an electronic bracelet”. For the journalist, this definitive conviction “is part of a long tail of France’s judicial CV, with regard to attacks on probity. Perhaps one day this will make the political class, the media, look at the mirror and reflection of this judicial CV”.
“We are still citizens of a country which had a former President of the Republic – Jacques Chirac – who was convicted in a case of breach of probity. Alain Juppé his Prime Minister too. And therefore Nicolas Sarkozy n “is no longer presumed innocent and definitively condemned, his Prime Minister, François Fillon too. This means that two heads of state and two heads of government are definitively condemned.”recalls Fabrice Arfi.
