Nicolas Sarkozy is therefore now “under the control of justice”. His appeal in the so-called “wiretapping” case rejected Wednesday by the Court of Cassation, his three-year prison sentence, including one year, for corruption and influence peddling becomes final. “I will cope”, immediately reacted the former President of the Republic, while denouncing “twelve long years of judicial harassment” and “the profound injustice which [lui] is done.”
Putting on a bracelet isn’t happening right away. But it is inevitable because the Court of Appeal provided for it ab initio in its judgment. Concretely, Nicolas Sarkozy will be summoned “as soon as possible” by a sentence enforcement judge who will rule within four months on the terms of execution of the sentence. What time arrangements for this electronic surveillance? What possible exemptions for traveling outside France? The magistrate has great latitude. Including to decide whether Nicolas Sarkozy will wear a bracelet upon his appearance at the trial of alleged Libyan financing of his 2007 campaign which begins on January 6 for four months.
Monitoring box. Another parameter to take into account: on January 28, the former president will be 70 years old, which will allow him to request, without waiting to be halfway through his sentence, a conditional release and hope to see his bracelet removed.
In the meantime, he will have had to comply with the obligations of confinement (prints, photos) in an integration and probation service and the configuration of a surveillance box at his home. So many judicial terms so far removed from the supreme function… The classic penal course for a convicted person who is not convicted and continues to place his defense in a political light: “Must I understand that my past political role and the oppositions that I raised created the corporate and political climate that resulted in this decision? », the former head of state was indignant.
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