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Judged on appeal for a week for “corruption” and “influence peddling”, the former president finally finds good in his telephone tapping decried so far and shamelessly lets go of his forty-year-old friend Thierry Herzog.
Finally, they have good these plays. After years of outraged protests and numerous legal actions to have them annulled, after having aroused indignant forums in the press, mobilized the bar and obtained in 2018 that the law toughen the conditions under which their conversations could be controlled, some lawyers are finding sudden virtues to the recordings made by the police in 2014. First of them: Nicolas Sarkozy.
The former President of the Republic, who resumed the dress after the Elysée, appears on appeal for “corruption” and “Bribery” since Monday alongside his lawyer and friend Thierry Herzog, and Gilbert Azibert, a senior magistrate at the Court of Cassation, now retired. Sarkozy and Herzog are suspected of having tried to obtain, through Azibert, confidential information on an upcoming decision by the Court of Cassation concerning the seizure of presidential diaries, in the context of the Bettencourt affair, and of having attempted to influence him in a favorable direction in exchange for a prestigious position in Monaco for the magistrate. For the former head of state, having the seizure of his diaries canceled by the high court was crucial: they had been transmitted to judges investigating other cases concerning him.
According to one or other of the defendants,