A former President of the Republic with an electronic bracelet is messy. However, this is what will happen to Nicolas Sarkozy. Of course, there will always be supporters and veterans who will cry out for relentlessness. There will also be no shortage of spare change to play the tune of the “Republic of Judges” on the jukebox of those nostalgic for the UMP. All this is known and fairly agreed. However, it should be noted that this conviction is not the work of a single jurisdiction. The advice of the former President exhausted all possible avenues of the legal arsenal to avoid an infamous outcome. In vain. Difficult in these conditions to cry out to the cabal unless you put all the country’s magistrates in the same bag. Which does not prevent Nicolas Sarkozy’s entourage from trying it, pointing out hypothetical procedural hiccups.
Better – or worse – the next legal step will not take place in France, but before the European Court of Human Rights. After having trusted the justice of his country, the former tenant of the Élysée hopes that the trust placed in the justice of his continent will manage to erase the stain on his CV. The case law on the use of “captured” remarks between a lawyer and his client could, he thinks, get him out of trouble. But for that, the ECHR would have to condemn France: either comical, grotesque or saddening. Delete the unnecessary entry.
In a few weeks, Nicolas Sarkozy will have an appointment with a sentence enforcement judge. This JAP should logically allow him to participate “freely” in the trial on the financing of the 2007 presidential campaign, on January 6. After that, will Sarkozy be done with the legal meetings? No, since he also appealed to the Court of Cassation in the Bygmalion affair. Grandeur and decadence.
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