Incarcerated for almost two months, the former Minister of the Interior Claude Guéant will leave the prison of Health on Wednesday. His lawyer has just announced it to BFMTV. Claude Guéant had been placed in detention on December 13, a first for a former tenant from Beauvau, following his conviction in the case of cash bonuses from the Ministry of the Interior, which the justice system considered that he did not respect. not bonds.
A few days after his incarceration, Claude Guéant, 77, had made a request for accommodation for health reasons. He was then heard on January 19 and his request for adjustment of sentence had been put under advisement.
Meanwhile, Claude Guéant was sentenced on January 21 in his absence in another case, that of the Elysée polls. He was sentenced to one year’s imprisonment, including eight months for favoritism, with a deferred committal order. However, he will not return to prison for this last sentence: he has indeed appealed, which suspends the application of this sanction until a second trial.
Former prefect and then boss of the National Police appointed by Charles Pasqua, Claude Guéant had been in 2007 the architect of the victorious presidential campaign of Nicolas Sarkozy, who had made him his secretary general at the Elysée. In 2011, he took over as head of the Interior Ministry, until Nicolas Sarkozy’s defeat against François Hollande in 2012.