The trial of Claude Guéant for “fraud” of campaign expenses postponed to October 11


The former interior minister said on Monday that he would ask for the postponement of his trial, after being “emergency hospitalized”.

The trial of former Interior Minister Claude Guéant, who was to be tried from Tuesday February 15 in Nanterre (Hauts-de-Seine) for “fraudof campaign expenses, was postponed to October 11 and 12, 2022, for medical reasons.

The essential man of the Sarkozy presidency, now 77 years old, was also to appear for “illicit financingof his 2012 legislative campaign, after the distribution of a leaflet in his favor by the UMP mayor (who has since become LR) of Boulogne-Billancourt, Pierre-Christophe Baguet. The dismissal of the trial was requested by his lawyer, according to whom Claude Guéant was operated on Monday and will have to benefit from a month of convalescence. “Claude Guéant wants to be tried in person, he wants to be able to explain himself in this case“, assured Me Philippe Bouchez El Ghozi at the hearing. “The dismissal seems to me to be necessary“, conceded the prosecutor Nathalie Foy, asking the court to order a medical expertise”thorough and perfectly objectiveof Claude Guéant’s state of health. which the court accepted. “It is in the interest of justice that all (the defendants) can be confronted with this bar“, continued the prosecutor.

In addition to Claude Guéant, four other people present at the hearing were to be tried over two days, including Pierre-Christophe Baguet, accused of “illicit financing” the country. The prosecution accuses Christophe Baguet and Claude Guéant of having sought to have the city of Boulogne-Billancourt finance electoral propaganda expenses in support of Claude Guéant’s candidacy. What the two defendants formally contest. Former secretary general of the Élysée, Claude Guéant had been imprisoned from December 13 to February 9 in the context of another case, a first for a former tenant from Beauvau, and he has since benefited from conditional release.

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