- The former French President will have to serve only one year ' s sentence, and the court has given him the opportunity to serve him outside prison. The politician still has the possibility to file an appeal against the CT ruling. He is awaiting two other trials, accused of illegally financing election campaigns in 2007 and 2012 to the Government Presidency.
The basis of the indictment is interviews recorded by the National Police in 2014. Sarkozy speaks in those recordings with his lawyer, Thierry Herzog, who hired Paul Bismouth with the fake name of a phone line. The Court finds it proven that Sarkozy and Herzog "agreed corruption" with the Court of Cassation judge Gilbert Aziberti, who would provide Sarkozy with secret information about another case he was charged, in exchange for Sarkozy to seek a seat in Monaco.
The former French president (2007-2012) has been sentenced to three years in prison by the Paris Correctional Court, but the court has decided that two of them are not compulsory and has allowed the third party to be executed at home or located via the electronic wristband. The Prosecutor ' s Office had applied for four years ' imprisonment, two of them for sexual assault. The manner in which the sentence is served may be conditional on what happens in the other open causes. Sarkozy can appeal the judgment. Aziberti and Herzog have also been sentenced to the same prison sentence, and have also sentenced the lawyer to five years of disqualification.
More judgments, from day 17
Sarkozy is awaiting two further trials with a view to the future. He is accused of illegally financing the campaign of the 2012 French presidential elections, in a process starting on 17, by means of false invoices with the communications company Bygmalion. He is also charged with irregular funding in the second trial that has no date, but by resorting to the money that was given by then President Libio, Muamar al Gaddafi, in the 2007 presidential elections.
Condemnation can condition the political future of the former president, whom some sectors of the Republican LR want to push in the 2022 elections to aspire to presidential candidate. Sarkozy has always defended his innocence.