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Today, Monday, November 23, the trial of former French president Nicolas Sarkozy began with a corruption case known as the “wiretapping case.”
This is the first time in French history that a French president has been tried for corruption since World War II, according to the French newspaper “Lignon”.
Former President Jacques Chirac was sentenced to two years in prison for embezzlement of public funds, but did not appear before judges due to his health at the time.
“Agence France-Presse” quoted Sarkozy (65 years old) who is addressing the judiciary with a “fighting” spirit.
His lawyer, Thierry Ertzug, and retired judge Gilbert Aziber, who missed the court session for health reasons, will also be subject to trial, which threatens to delay it.
The French newspaper “Liberation” declared that the three defendants are in court on charges of espionage and attempt to change the course of justice, in the file of obtaining Libyan funds for Sarkozy’s presidential campaign in 2007.
At the end of April 2012, Sarkozy announced his intention to file a lawsuit on the MediaPart website for publishing a document that Sarkozy described as “fraudulent”, and talks about the Muammar Gaddafi regime’s funding of Sarkozy’s election campaign in 2007. .
The site had published a document signed by the former Libyan foreign intelligence chief, Musa Kousi, and the document reveals that the Gaddafi regime agreed in 2006 to finance the Sarkozy campaign with an amount of fifty million euros.
According to the website, the note was received by the former head of the Libyan Fund for African Investments, Bashir Saleh, which the two Libyan officials denied.
In September 2013, the judiciary decided to subject Sarkozy to wiretapping, but in early 2014 they discovered that Sarkozy was using a secret line, under the pseudonym Paul Bismuth, to contact his lawyer.
Their conversations revealed the existence of attempts to carry out corruption operations, as Sarkozy worked to help judge Aziber to grant him a position in Monaco, as quoted by the French prosecutor’s “France Press”.
The former French president is awaiting another trial next spring, related to the costs of his campaign for the 2012 presidential elections, which he lost to rival Francois Hollande.
According to a biography published by “France 24”, Sarkozy was born in 1955 to a Hungarian immigrant father, studied law and was promoted three times, most recently with Carla Bruni, father of four children.
He joined the Rally for the Republic Party in 1976 and served as an advisor to the municipal council of his city of Neuilly in 1983.
He was elected Member of Parliament in 1988, Minister of the Budget in 1993, Government Spokesperson, then Minister of the Economy, then Minister of the Interior, then President of the party “Unity for a Popular Movement” and President of France in 2007.
He contested and lost the presidential elections for a second term in 2012, then retired from political life after losing the primaries of the French center and right parties in 2016.
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