The right between support, sobriety and silence. The Paris Court sentenced former President Nicolas Sarkozy five years in prison for “Criminal Association” with an imprisonment in the coming weeks in the trial of the Gaddafi issue. For the first time, a former head of state, therefore, will be behind bars, despite his intention to appeal.
The news surprised part of the right. This is the case of the president of the deputies LR Laurent Wauquiez, who reacted quickly.
“I want to reiterate my support and gratitude to the statesman who gave our country so much my friendship for man,” he wrote what his minister was once in his X account.
“A fault”
The vice president of the Geoffroy Didier movement denounced, “a failure of the judicial authority that serves the cause of justice” in BFMTV.
The anger also of François-Xavier Bellamy, which deplores “an exceptional treatment that nothing justifies.” “While so many serious violence authors are released every day, the French will not be deceived about the meaning of this decision,” he criticized.
The former president of the LR Éric Ciotti, who is now an ally of Marine Le Pen, directed “a friendly thought” to Nicolas Sarkozy.
“No judicial decision will erase the statesman who has been and that he remains, especially in the hearts of the French,” wrote the mayor of Nice Christian Estrosi, now elected horizons.
“All my friendship”
Valérie Pecresse, former right candidate for the presidential elections in 2022, reacted a few hours later, welcoming “a great president of the Republic.”
“Nicolas Sarkozy was able to reform our country and protect it through crises. Today I have a personal thought for him and his family,” added the president of the île-de-France region, in a very sober message.
Interior Minister Bruno Retaille also divided a press release under the preside LR party. “I repeat all my support and all my friendship in the test that crosses,” we can read there.
However, some republican figures have not yet reacted. This is, for example, the case of the president of the Gérard Larcher Senate, former Prime Minister Michel Barnier or Culture Minister Rachida Dati, who was guardian of the seals with Nicolas Sarkozy.
The same for LR Secretary General Nasrou or government spokeswoman Sophie Primas.
Facts of “exceptional gravity”
This Thursday, to justify the next imprisonment of Nicolas Sarkozy, the president of the Court indicated that the alleged events are “an exceptional gravity”, “that citizens are probably confident,” said the magistrate.
Justice considered significantly that “as minister, president of the UMP” (the old name of the note of the LR editor), Nicolas Sarkozy had “left his close collaborators and political support, in which he had authority, acting in his name.” THE OBJECTIVE: Ask the LIBIAS authorities “to obtain or try to obtain financial support in Libya in order to obtain funds for the campaign” since 2007.
The magistrate continued in part The very severe requests required by the Office of the National Public Prosecutor (PNF) Last March.
The final end of your career?
However, the former head of state had not slept behind bars, but had an electronic bracelet, finally retired after three months. Having 70 years, the one who became businesses, especially for the Giant of the Hotel Accor, had been able to request probation before half of his sentence.
The withdrawal of its legion of honor, as the procedure wants in case of a conviction equal to or greater than a firm year, which aroused the anger of the right, denouncing less the fate reserved for Nicolas Sarkozy than “the weakening of the presidential function” to use the words of Laurent Wauquiez.
The conviction of the former head of the State could mean in any case this time the final end of his political life that lasted almost 50 years, which has continued in recent years to receive largely the elected officials of his party, as well as to exchange with Emmanuel Macron.
Source: BFM TV
