Sarkozy will ‘sleep in jail but with head held high’ after Libya conviction | Nicolas Sarkozy

Former French President Nicolas Sarkozy said that after he was sentenced to five years in prison for the conspiracy, he would sleep in prison, but my head would be kept high-for the first time, a former president was sent to imprisonment in modern French history.

The decision and conviction followed a hearing in which he and his assistants were accused of corruption agreement with the Late Libyan Dictorial Muammar Gaddafi regime to get financing for the 2007 French Presidential election campaign.

In a surprise decision, the chief judge Nathalie Gavarino, 70 -year -old Sarkozy, even if he objected to imprisonment, a special punishment, which means that it should be sentenced. He justified the conviction and punishment on the grounds that the crimes were “extraordinary gravity ve and kız weakening the trust of citizens”.

The beginning of Sarkozy’s sentence will be determined at a later date and a month to inform the prosecutors when to go to jail. The judge also ordered France to pay a fine of 100,000 € (£ 87,000) to the right-wing Sarkozy of France between 2007-2012.

Sarkozy’s imprisonment was harder than many people expected. As he left the courtroom, he typically expressed his anger in a crippled style and said to the journalists: “Today, it is very weight about the superiority of law and the trust that it can have a system of justice.”

“If they definitely want me to sleep in jail, I will sleep in jail, but my head is high.”

Sarkozy, who rejected all injustices in the court, would make an objection against the decision and said, “I am innocent; this justice is a scandal.”

Sarkozy said, “Those who hate me think that they will humiliate me,” Sarkozy said. “But what they are humiliated today is France’s image France.”

The former President was found guilty of the criminal conspiracy, but corruption was acquitted of the abuse of Libyan public funds and the financing of an illegal election campaign.

His wife, singer and former model Carla Bruni-Sarkozy and TV cameras left the field, the researcher showed that the microphone of the reporting caught the red lid. Website MediaPartFirst, he began to report about Libyan claims and apparently throwing him down.

Later on on Instagram: #Hatewillnotwin hashtagle “Love Response”.

The prosecutors told the court that Sarkozy and his assistants had designed a “corruption agreement ilgi to illegally finance the victorious presidential campaign of Sarkozy’s victorious presidential campaign with the Gaddafi and Libyan regime in 2005.

In exchange for money, the court understood that the Libyan regime demanded diplomatic, legal and good good for business, and that Sarkozy would rehabilitate the international image of Gaddafi. The 41 -year -old ruthless rule was marked with human rights violations, and in December 1988, in December 1988, the regime was internationally isolated on the connection of the regime to terrorism, including the bombing of Pan flight 103 through Lockerbie in Scotland.

In 2005, when Sarkozy’s Interior Minister of Sarkozy, the prosecutors accused the members of the Gaddafi regime in Libya. Shortly after becoming president in 2007, Sarkozy then invited Libyan leader to visit Paris to a long state visit, while he founded his Bedouin tent in the gardens near the élysée Palace.

In 2011, Sarkozy took part in the forefront of Air attacks led by NATO, and against the troops that helped to overthrow the regime of rebel fighters. Gaddafi was arrested and killed by rebels in October 2011.

The allegations of a secret campaign financing pact have made it the biggest attempt Sarkozy’s biggest corruption attempt. He was already sentenced to two separate cases and the highest distinction of France was removed from the Legion of Honor.

In the first case, Sarkozy was convicted of corruption and influenced illegal attempts to secure the good of a judge. Before being released conditionally, he was sentenced to one -year imprisonment, which he served with an electronic tag for three months this year. For the first time, a former French President had to wear an electronic label. Sarkozy had to wear the label at the Paris Criminal Court on the hearing on the Libya campaign financing.

In a second case, Sarkozy was convicted of hiding the illegal excess he lost to the socialist candidate François Hollande in the 2012 presidential elections. He objected to both prisoners.

Despite his conviction, Sarkozy continues to meet and consult with key figures on the right and center of politics. Recently, the last government has met with the new Prime Minister Sébastien Lecornu, who had not yet established a new government after the last government collapsed this month.

Following the decision on Thursday, the interior Minister Bruno Retailleau praised Sarkozy for his “energy and determination, and added: orum I repeat my full support and friendship in this difficult time.”

However, the political spectrum had less support elsewhere. A leftist deputy drew attention to Clémentine Autain X: “High, dirty hands were held. The rule of law did not fail.”

At the hearing, the other defendants saw mixed decisions. Claude Guéant, the director of Sarkozy’s 2007 presidential campaign, was found guilty of the penalty conspiracy and corruption before he was turned into general manager and then the Interior Minister.

Brice Hortefeux, an ally of Sarkozy, who also served as the Minister of Interior, was found guilty of the penalty conspiracy, but was acquitted of an illegal campaign financing. He is likely to object to his convictions of both himself and Guéant.

In 2007, éric Woerth, a former minister of Sarkozy’s campaign financing and a former minister who had moved to Emmanuel Macron’s centralist party since then.

This week, a sudden event, in an interview in 2016, the researcher website MediaPart’a Gaddafi’dan Sarkozy’nin help to give cash in the vicinity of the French-lebneli businessman Ziad Takieddine, died of a heart attack in Beirut two days before the decision.

In 2020, Takieddine suddenly withdrew the accusation of transportation of cash suitcases in the Libyan case, and Sarkozy and Close asked their allies to accusations that they always rejected something they had rejected. Shortly after, Takieddine contradicted his withdrawal.

A separate legal lawsuit was filed for Takieddine’s withdrawal. Sarkozy, his wife and others, Takieddine, who attracted their allegations, was under official investigation on the suspicion of pressure on a witness. They all refuse to do any wrong.