Incarcerated since Monday because he had not paid the money due to justice on time, the former Minister of the Interior, Claude Guéant, who paid his debt to the Treasury on Thursday, asked for his release , said his lawyer, this Sunday,
confirming information from Europe 1.
To pay off the debt owed to the Public Treasury, Claude Guéant, 76, paid 292,000 euros on Thursday, according to a slip consulted by AFP, following a 2017 conviction which the courts considered that he did not respect the obligations.
“This full payment makes it possible to justify an immediate exit”
In detail, “Claude Guéant paid 133,315.95 euros to put his debt to zero” but also settled that of “one of the co-convicts (who) had not paid his full share and it is about ‘a solidarity debt therefore due 100% by each convicted person ”, according to his lawyer, Me Philippe Bouchez El-Ghozi. According to him, this was done through loans from relatives. Claude Guéant immediately made a request for an adjustment of the sentence aimed at his release, for which no hearing date was set. “This full payment makes it possible to justify an immediate release from prison”, according to Me Bouchez El-Ghozi.
Claude Guéant was placed in detention at the Paris-La Santé penitentiary center on Monday in application of the 2017 conviction, a first for a former Minister of the Interior. In the case of the cash bonuses of the Ministry of the Interior, the former right-hand man of Nicolas Sarkozy was sentenced on January 23, 2017 on appeal to two years’ imprisonment, one of which was suspended on probation and a fine of 75,000 euros. . He was serving this sentence – which became final two years later after the rejection of his cassation appeal – under conditional release.
A “worrying” state of health
In early November, however, the Paris Court of Appeal revoked part of his suspension (3 months) and his parole (6 months), considering that Claude Guéant was not making the necessary payments to pay the fine and damages. and interest he had been inflicted on.
It is in execution of these decisions that Claude Guéant was placed in jail for nine months, had specified Me Bouchez El-Ghozi. The council had immediately announced its intention to seize the judge of application of sentences in order to obtain an adjustment, underlining the state of health “worrying” of its client.