Appeal in cassation: Sarkozy’s defense prepares its weapons

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Loyalty of evidence, fair trial, regularity of telephone surveillance… The lawyers for the ex-president will fire at all costs before the supreme court.

By Nicholas Bastuck

Pace of bridge of the Ascension for the defense of Nicolas Sarkozy. Two days after the conviction of their client, again found guilty of “corruption” and “influence peddling” in the “Bismuth eavesdropping” case, the lawyers of the former head of state immersed themselves in the 156-page judgment rendered on Wednesday by the Paris Court of Appeal. Objective: to find there the “means” of law that they will raise before the Court of Cassation in the appeal that they have formed against this conviction decision. This final appeal being suspensive, the sentence pronounced (three years of imprisonment, including one firm, with an electronic bracelet, three years of deprivation of civic rights) is not intended to be executed, in any case not for the moment. .

Although warned and sentenced in this case…