The former French president is accused of having tried to corrupt a high-ranking magistrate for his own benefit in the Bettencourt case, and secondly of influence peddling for the promises he was able to make to the magistrate to place him in a prestigious position in Monaco.
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Former French President Nicolas Sarkozy sits on the bench as of this Monday to try to reverse the appeal the sentence to three years in prison, one of them firm. He is accused of allegedly trying to corrupt former magistrate Gilbert Azibert in 2013 and 2014 for his own benefit in the Bettencourt case, as well as for influence peddling for the promises he was able to make to Azibert to place him in a prestigious position in Monaco.
In this trial before the Paris Court of Appeal, which is expected to last until Friday the 16th, Sarkozy, who was his lawyer at the time of the events, also appears, Thierry Herzog, and the former magistrate Gilbert Azibert. Herzog was also imposed the prohibition to practice the profession of lawyer for five years.
The three were sentenced in first instance in March 2021 to the same sentence of three years in jail one of them mandatory under a regime of deprivation of liberty with detention in their respective homes controlled with an electronic bracelet.
Sarkozy, who at 67 is retired from active politics, is the first former French president to be sentenced to a final prison term, that is to say, it implies an effective deprivation of liberty.
According to the accusation, the one who was president of France between 2007 and 2012 tried, after leaving the Élysée, obtain confidential information about an instruction in which he could appear to be implicated in an abuse of weakness of the billionaire Liliane Bettencourt, then in her nineties and heiress to the L’Oréal emporium. To do this, he made an agreement with Gilbert Azibert, who was a prosecutor in the Supreme Court, with the aim of weighing in on the judicial decisions that were going to be taken in that case.
In exchange for this intervention, Sarkozy promised to use his influence so that Azibert could obtain a prestigious position in Monaco.
Source: Eitb
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