The court will make its decision on the appeal trial of the former president, tried for corruption and influence peddling, in just over six months.
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Lhe legal soap opera around the Paul Bismuth case will perhaps come to an end in six months. The Paris Court of Appeal will hand down its decision on May 17 in the “wiretapping” case which earned Nicolas Sarkozy, his lawyer Thierry Hergog and the ex-magistrate Gilbert Azibert to be tried in Paris for corruption and trafficking. of influence. Castigating a case of “unprecedented seriousness”, the public prosecutor requested three years of suspended imprisonment from the three defendants. The defense pleaded for release by attacking a case built on the “quicksand” of “illegal” telephone tapping and devoid of “probative value”.
For his latest banderillas in the case of “wiretapping”, the defense at the appeal trial of Nicolas Sarkozy pounded Thursday the “quicksand” of telephone interceptions which are worth to the ex-president to have appeared in Paris for corruption and Bribery. For his last words, the former head of state promised to “fight until his last breath” for his “innocence”. “I know it takes courage to judge me not for what I was as a politician but for what I did. You see, I am naive: I trust, ”he told the Paris Court of Appeal, which will render its decision on May 17.
“Paul Bismuth”
Retried since December 5, Nicolas Sarkozy appeared alongside his historic lawyer Thierry Herzog and the former senior magistrate Gilbert in this case which earned him a conviction, unprecedented for a former president, to a prison sentence in first case. This resounding file is based on the exchanges between Nicolas Sarkozy and Me Herzog captured in early 2014, on an unofficial line opened under the alias “Paul Bismuth”, and whose defense disputes the legality. According to the investigators, these conversations reveal the existence of a corruption pact between the three defendants to weigh on an appeal then filed by Nicolas Sarkozy before the Court of Cassation in the Bettencourt case.
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