Nearly three weeks after he was sent to La Santé prison, will Nicolas Sarkozy be released pending an appeal hearing? The Paris Court of Appeal on Monday November 10 examined the request of the former President of the Republic, whose detention after he was found guilty of criminal conspiracy in the case of alleged Libyan funding of the 2007 presidential campaign sparked heated debate. Justice must study the case of the former head of state, starting at 09.30. Follow our live broadcast.
Xavier Bertrand “hopes he is released”. Guest of “4V” on France 2, Monday morning, the president of the Hauts-de-France region spoke about the upcoming court decision. He said he was thinking “On top of all the ordeal he and his family have gone through“, and believed that he was released “will please many people, (he) was”.
The sentence is accompanied by temporary execution. On September 25, a Paris criminal court sentenced Nicolas Sarkozy to five years in prison. The former president was found guilty of deliberately allowing his collaborators to approach Libya led by Muammar Gaddafi to seek secret funding for his victorious presidential campaign in 2007. Nicolas Sarkozy appealed this decision. However, this sentence with a detention warrant was accompanied by a provisional execution, an unprecedented detention for a former president in the history of the French Republic.
Release has been granted to one of the convicts. Among the three people sentenced on commitment warrants on September 25, the High Court has allowed the release under the judicial supervision of former banker Wahib Nacer. Instead, he detained intermediary Alexandre Djouhri. For the latter, who was sentenced to six years in prison and a fine of three million euros, the court raised the risk of flight for the 66-year-old French-Algerian businessman, who “has the facility to decide on departure from the national territory”.
Twenty days behind bars and some controversy. The presence of two police officers who guaranteed his protection irritated the prison warden’s union. The prisoners also threatened Nicolas Sarkozy in the middle of the night. Finally, the visit of the Minister of Justice, Gérald Darmanin, angered several lawyers and judges.
