A historical decision. Nicolas Sarkozy was sentenced to comply with a five -year prison sentence with a deposit order this Thursday, September 25 by the Paris Criminal Court. Already convicted in other cases, the former president of the Republic was declared guilty of criminal associations in the case of Libyan financing of his 2007 electoral campaign,
If the former president appealed, he may not escape the imprisonment, a provisional execution of the sentence was ordered. This must be carried out at the Penitentiary Health Center located in the 14th Paris District. The penitentiary establishment, known for already protected personalities, contains a district for vulnerable people.
“Five years are huge,” said Jean-Michel Darrois, lawyer of the former head of state this Friday, September 26 at BFMTV. Nicolas Sarkozy will know the date of its entry into the arrest on October 13, the day the National Financial Prosecutor’s Office is summoned.
To walk an hour a day
Due to its state and advanced age, it will be placed in a neighborhood for vulnerable people. Cell surface: 9m2.
“The cells are nothing less, nothing more than the other cells of other buildings. It will have its cellular shower, refrigerator, television, like all other detainees. There will not be a preferential treatment,” said the BFMTV microphone, Hugo Vitry, local secretary of Justice of the House of Medical Care.
Isolated from the rest of the detention, certain public figures such as Claude Guyant spent his nights in this same wing of health prison. Inside, they are locked at 11 pm on 24. “It will walk for an hour a minimum day,” says Hugo Vitry.
“There is no VIP District”
Pierre Botton, a businessman and former property in the same district of the Health Prison, ensures that the detention conditions were difficult. “Sorry, but there is no VIP neighborhood,” he said. “Do not choose the detainees you know, do I want to rub shoulders with a child rapist? No.”
The latter describes an ultraviolence that has witnessed. “There was no day without fighting. People tell me that prison is Club Med, so I answer ‘bin going there,” he said.
At the end of the audience this Thursday, Nicolas Sarkozy said before the press that “he would assume his responsibilities.” “If you absolutely want me to sleep in prison, I will sleep in prison but my high head. I am innocent,” he said.
Source: BFM TV
