(Paris) “You will never, never find not a euro, but not a Libyan cent, in my campaign,” Nicolas Sarkozy said Thursday at the bar of the Paris court, for his first speech at his trial.
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“I will answer all the questions as I have always done, I have always assumed my responsibilities and I intend to do so during these four months” of hearing, added the former French head of state, tried like 11 other people for suspicion of financing his 2007 campaign by Muammar Gaddafi’s Libya.
The first to speak for this introductory statement, he began by mentioning, “10 years of slander, 48 hours of police custody, 60 hours of interrogation, 10 years of investigation”.
“What did we find?” “, he protested several times. “Nothing about me.”
-“There is reason to be angry,” he added.
“Money from corruption is largely absent from this trial and for a simple reason: there is no money from corruption, because there was no corruption of the candidate,” asserted the former president.
Tried until April 10 for corruption, concealment of embezzlement of public funds, illegal campaign financing and criminal conspiracy, Nicolas Sarkozy faces 10 years in prison and a fine of 375,000 euros (556,000 Canadian dollars), as well as a deprivation of civil rights (therefore ineligibility) of up to five years.
“I have no score to settle and certainly not with the institution of which I know that part of it violently fought me when I was president. Naive or enthusiastic, I trust,” also said the man who has regularly implicated magistrates by name in the multiple legal proceedings targeting him.
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