“The appeal that I am making before the ECHR could unfortunately lead to France being condemned,” underlines Nicolas Sarkozy, estimating that he would not have seized this body if he had “benefited from a calm legal analysis”.
“I am accused of having thought of helping an application which was never formulated, with an intervention which was never made, in exchange for a service which was neither requested nor provided!” he denounces.
“The whole thing being, finally, based on snippets of conversations between a lawyer and his client, confidential in essence,” adds the former head of state.
Mr. Sarkozy must now be summoned – in principle within a period of less than a month – before a sentence enforcement judge (JAP), who will determine the terms of his bracelet, which will be placed later.
In this case, Nicolas Sarkozy was convicted at first instance on March 1, 2021, then on appeal on May 17, 2023.
The former tenant of the Elysée was found guilty of having entered into a “corruption pact” with Gilbert Azibert, senior magistrate at the Court of Cassation, in 2014, alongside his historic lawyer Thierry Herzog, so that he transmits information and tries to influence an appeal filed by Nicolas Sarkozy in the Bettencourt affair.
Wiretapping affair: Sarkozy is definitively sentenced to one year under bracelet but refers the matter to the European Court of Human Rights
And this, in exchange for a promised “help” for an honorary position in Monaco.
The three men were given the same sentence, with the lawyer banned from wearing black robes for three years. Their appeals were also rejected and these sentences are therefore final.
