Jail sentence against former French president confirmed Nicolas Sarkozy, who in December 2022 returned to the Paris Court of Appeal to try to reverse the sentence of three years in prison for corruption and influence peddling in a wiretapping plot. This confirmation has been made public this Wednesday, May 17. A few days ago, as we published in this digital on May 12, Sarkozy shared a lunch in a restaurant in Madrid with also former president José María Aznar and Borja Prado, president of Mediaset.
Despite everything, Sarkozy, husband of the model and singer Carla Brownwill not enter prison, because the court has specified that You can serve your sentence under house arrest and with an electronic bracelet.
Sarzoky was sentenced in March 2021 for crimes of corruption and influence peddling after the French Justice considered it proven that he used his position to try to obtain information about an investigation.
The Public Ministry accused him of trying to obtain secret information in 2014, through his lawyer Thierry Herzog, for which he would have turned to former magistrate Gilbert Azibert, who was then in the Court of Cassation. According to investigators, the former president offered Azibert a position in Monaco in exchange for data relating to an open case for alleged irregular campaign financing.
Sarkozy governed France between 2007 and 2012 and became the first former head of state to sit physically on the accused’s bench, since although in 2011 his predecessor at the Élysée, Jacques Chirac, was also sentenced to two years for crimes committed during his time as mayor of Paris, he never stepped foot in court for health reasons.