“The truth will eventually triumph”: despite his conviction on appeal to one year in prison, Nicolas Sarkozy has not finished with the wiretapping affair. The former President of the Republic has announced his intention to appeal in cassation. He also reacted to the decision, in an interview At Figaro Thursday, considering in particular that “in this case, everything is factually false, legally illegal and morally insane”.
“The essential principles of our democracy have been trampled underfoot,” said Sarkozy in particular. “Some magistrates are in a political fight”, he adds in the interview, explaining nevertheless to be “neither Mrs. Le Pen, nor Mr. Mélenchon”: “I was President of the Republic: I will not be therefore never the one who will question justice as a whole. »
“The question asked is not to know if I am loved or if I am not loved, but to know if the law has been respected”, continues Nicolas Sarkozy, who announces that he wants to “lead the fight to the end “. Asked about his trouble with the law and about the “Libyan financing” affair, for which the PNF demanded a trial, the former leader of the right plays it serenely: “When you are innocent, you have the strength of the truth. »