Wiretapping affair –
Nicolas Sarkozy definitively sentenced to one year in prison under bracelet
The former French president is sentenced to one year in prison under an electric bracelet for corruption and influence peddling.
Published today at 2:15 p.m.
The Court of Cassation rules on the appeals of Nicolas Sarkozy, Thierry Herzog and Gilbert Azibert in the trial of the Wiretapping Case, at the Paris Courthouse.
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The Court of Cassation on Wednesday rejected 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, an unprecedented sanction for a former head of the State.
Until now suspended, this sentence, to which is added three years of ineligibility, is now applicable: Nicolas Sarkozy, 69 years old, will be summoned before a sentence enforcement judge who will have to determine the terms of his electronic bracelet .
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