Alexis Delafontaine, edited by Manon Fossat
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2:31 p.m., December 20, 2021
Incarcerated since December 13 at the Health prison in Paris in the case of cash bonuses, Claude Guéant paid his debt to the Treasury on Thursday in full. A request for an adjustment of sentence was presented to the next judge but no hearing has yet been scheduled. Yet according to his lawyer, nothing justifies his detention.
Claude Guéant was imprisoned Monday, December 13 in the prison of Health, in application of his conviction in 2017 in the case of cash bonuses of the Ministry of the Interior. Three days later, on Thursday, December 16, the former Grand Clerk of the State paid all of his debt to the Public Treasury thanks to loans granted to him by relatives. The same day, a request for an adjustment of his sentence was presented to the judge since the cause of his imprisonment had disappeared. However, no hearing has yet been scheduled.
“Nothing justifies this situation”
Invited to Europe Weekend on Sunday, his lawyer Philippe Bouchez El Ghozi reacted and felt that nothing justifies keeping his client in detention. “What was true for imprisoning him must also be true for getting him out of prison immediately. I would not understand, moreover, that we decided to imprison him extremely quickly and that we decided to keep him in prison. or to leave a certain time, while nothing today justifies this situation “, he affirmed.
“I am waiting for justice to take up this case, for a hearing date to be set so that we can finally get him out to the extent that the cause of his imprisonment has completely disappeared,” he said. it also called. “The objective is obviously to be able to allow him to spend the Christmas holidays with his family. So for me, a quick exit is essential.”
Claude Guéant, 76, was sentenced to two years’ imprisonment, one of which was firm and a fine of 75,000 euros on appeal in January 2017, a sentence that became final two years later after the rejection of his cassation appeal. Since then, he was serving this sentence under the conditional release regime, but in November, the Paris Court of Appeal ruled that the latter was not making the necessary payments to pay the fine and damages he incurred. was seen inflicting.