Nicolas Sarkozy was, unsurprisingly, acquitted on Monday, November 10, by the Paris Court of Appeal, under the court’s strict supervision. If the detention is “nightmare”hearing via videoconference from the Health prison in Paris, was particularly painful. But the former head of state, who was sentenced to five years in prison for criminal conspiracy in the Libyan affair, achieved important things. He left the prison around 4 p.m., in a car with tinted windows, escorted by two motorbike riders.
He remains subject to strict judicial control: he no longer has the right to leave the region and he must, at the risk of returning to prison, have contact with any of the other defendants, with any of the eight Libyan officials, or with any of the 17 people connected, even remotely, with the investigation.
Olivier Géron, head of correctional services at the court of appeals, added, uniquely in the history of the judiciary, a ban on contact with “The Justice Minister, members of his cabinet, and every Justice Ministry executive will likely provide input”Namely the report from the Attorney General. The rejection was particularly painful for Gérald Darmanin, Nicolas Sarkozy’s former spokesman during his campaign to become UMP president, who visited his friend the former president on October 29 in prison, and was the only person who saw no malice in it. The courts are indeed wary “defendant’s previous record” which show “his ability to carry out various State services even though he no longer carries out official activities”…
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