Convicted former president Sarkozy will also have to wear an electronic bracelet: here’s why

The Court rejected the appeal. Final sentence.

The Court of Cassation rejected Nicolas Sarkozy’s appeal in the wiretapping case, making his one-year prison sentence with an electronic bracelet for corruption and influence peddling final, an unprecedented sanction for a former head of state.

Former French president Nicolas Sarkozy will “respect” the ruling but will refer the matter to the European Court of Human Rights. This was announced by his lawyer, Patrice Spinosi. “Nicolas Sarkozy will obviously respect the sanction pronounced which is now definitive”, commented Spinosi. “At the same time, in the coming weeks he will turn to the European Court, as he now has the right to do, to obtain the guarantee of the rights that the French judges have denied him,” he added. However, this postponement does not prevent the enforcement of the sanctions imposed.

The court definitively confirmed the sentence – for corruption and influence peddling – to three years in prison, of which one year to be served with an electronic bracelet, of the court of appeal, which in May 2023 had confirmed his sentence in first degree. A decision which therefore involves making the former tenant of the Elysée wear an electronic bracelet. The former head of state also received three years of ineligibility and deprivation of civil rights. (Fonte Agi)